How I saved my beliefs with the motivational sushi

I used to be fan of the Facebook pages with motivational quotes and beautiful inspiring pictures.

But I realised that those things don't help.

Even worse, they actually encouraged me to be greedy.

It took me several months to understand what was going on.

I was distracted by so many things that I couldn't concentrate on me, my shy inner voice demanding more of my attention while I was busy doing honestly nothing.

Nobody wants to feel desperate and neither do I, so I took it the easy way. I let entertain myself and preferred to believe that things will figure out by themselves after reading an inspirational quote.

And they obviously didn't.

My mum says that "None leaf on the tree moves without the blow of the wind" and as all the mums, she was right.

I could have saved hours but instead, I passively scrolled down for the Facebook update or bought another motivational book.

I used to read the great philosophers' ideas and simply do nothing!

It’s understandable that I didn't experience any life changing effect on me.

I wanted more and more of that fast food for my mind. Only that. No exercise.

Something even worse happened: I stopped believing in the motivation.

My greed for more and more information temporarily destroyed my beliefs and my point of view.

So how I saved my beliefs?

I took the extreme diet and reduced the Facebook and all the motivational books to 0 calories.

For me, it was like a drug but I understood that what I needed was just a timeout.

I discovered that’s enough with a tiny snack of this healthy boost for my mind otherwise it was too time consuming.

Your life can be counted in years, so from now on, the time for me, has become the life.

Today morning on the tube I heard one mum describing the life of her daughter; she said one extremely contrasting thing:

“My daughter she doesn't enjoy what she is doing but she keeps herself busy”.

I wouldn't like my mum makes the same statement about me, so I will try to do something different than keeping myself busy.

Sometimes we all need to be encouraged to do things we want to but not dare to.

That’s why we do need the motivation.

But not too much motivation.

Like in the Japanese style for eating.

Designed to live better, longer and younger.

The motivational sushi!

The perfect mix of the following elements:

• the raw taste of the encouragement – dancing fish
• wrapped into the black sheet of your sparkling dreams – shining nori
• and a generous amount of rice full of everyday steps – rice growing grains

I love sushi and hope my example above will help you understand how I decided to motivate myself my own way.

So what's the motivational sushi for today after my greedy lesson?

Less is more.

Less is more when eating,

less is more when shopping,

less is more when talking …

With the right amount, you will take a better care of yourself, others and the environment.

Keep motivated with the right dose – motivational sushi to be able to take an action every day and do what you’d love to do.

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