Steemit Engagement Challenge (SEC)| S12W2- "Self Motivation"

Steem greetings from the motherland-Cameroon @everyone. It is another awesome week of engagement challenges and I am happy to participate in this week's challenge in the steem4nigeria community.

That said, the topic for discussion this week focuses on "Self Motivation". This is an interesting topic and I hope readers find pleasure in reading through my ideas.

What do you think causes people to lose their motivation in life?

Self-motivation is a way of encouraging yourself and facing your challenges without depending on someone. It kind of makes someone to be committed to achieving your set goals despite setbacks.

That said, according to me, people tend to lose self-motivation due to the inability to set goals. In life, if you want to be successful, you need to set goals and work towards achieving the goals. Once you cannot set your goals, any setback makes you easily lose confidence in yourself. You start using words like “I can't do this”, “It's more than me”, etc. Using such statements only causes you to lose motivation.

Also, one can lose motivation in life due to some transitions in life such as the death of a dear one in your life or if you are in a state of depression . In such a situation, they find it difficult to move on and face life.

Lastly, one can tend to lose self motivation when experiencing self doubt. You do not have confidence of yourself and turn to depend on others. Once those you solely depended on failed to support you, no self confidence to forge ahead. Your mind is limited to only seeing challenges and cannot think of ways to better yourself.

Have you been discouraged or depressed before? How did you handle It.?

I always believe that life has a way of treating us even if we do not plan for it. But in such circumstances, only the brave can handled such situations. I am not in different as I once faced such moments in my life that I thought of giving up.

This happened during my post grad studies in South Africa. We had some racists lecturers who were bend at frustrating our studies especially international students in the department. During the first months, I almost gave up on my studies but was motivated by some Nigerian friends/classmates.

We wrote a complaint to the university hierarchy and the lecturers involved were sanctioned.

Is self-motivation a good practice? Explain

Of course, it is a yes for me because, without self-motivation, you will hardly achieve anything in life. As I earlier made mentioned earlier, life has its own way of treating us. This goes with the adage that “…not all that glitters is gold…”.

I used to say challenges will faced human beings, not trees. When there is no self-motivation when faced with challenges, you easily give up because all you see and think of are the challenges you see.

Self-motivation kind of boosts your morals to face any setback in life. In the nutshell, self-motivation gives positive energy and boost your confidence.

On Steemit what keeps you motivated?

I love writing and I found Steemit to be that place where I can share my ideas.

Another thing that keeps me motivated on Steemit is the reward we gain from creating quality content. The reward is extra income for me and will benefit my family in one way or the other.

Also, the friends I met on the platform made me stay committed. There are true friends on Steemit who care about your well-being to the extent that when I go inactive, they contact me on WhatsApp or Discord, to find out what is wrong and also motivate me to stay committed.

This is the end of my discussion and I will invite @pelon53, @majerius, @fombae, @solaymann, @josepha and @eliany to share their entries to the contest.