Season three Week 3 of the steemit engagement challenge is back. Week two flew past us fast and I must say that I enjoyed it a lot. Season three is on and as usual, I will encourage users to comment on the post of others. The essence of this challenge is to foster engagement.

For this week 3, the first contest I will be engaging in is a contest that has been brought forward by the steembetterlife community. This contest topic is about motivation in our lives.

Pick TWO of these characters and tell us why you have picked it and what you see as the meaning of these words

Out of the four characters listed above I've fallen in love with 2 of them. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all of them but the others don't actually sit well with me. So for the 2 characters I like;

Sponge Bob

spongeBob and Patrick

Growing up, I enjoyed watching cartoons a lot. I had 3 cartoons that I never got tired of watching. Out of this cartoons, SpongeBob was one of them. I won’t lie, my favourite character was Patrick, I didn’t like sponge bob that much. I watched SpongeBob each time I closed from school around 4 on Nickelodeon.For those who don’t know SpongeBob, it’s a cartoons for kids, it’s a form of series that’s mainly based on two characters SpongeBob and his friend Patrick. In the cartoon series the two friends live in the ocean

I’m ready! I’m ready ! I’m ready - SpongeBob

Upon seeing a phrase like this the first thing that comes to my mind is to be ready for anything. In the cartoon series SpongeBob is portrayed as a character who loves to have a lot of fun, but he doesn’t play with his work too. He is always punctual at work. He works at an eatery and doesn’t mess with his customers.

There are a few lessons I have learnt from this

🌹 You need to be disciplined

As soon as I saw the phrase the first thing that popped in my head was to be disciplined. Discipline takes us a long way. Don’t get me wrong, motivation helps us from time to time but we need discipline. SpongeBob depicts this perfectly by telling us to be ready always. There are times when we are not motivated enough to do something, but discipline drives us to complete that task cause we know we have to finish that task.

🌹Have a mindset of accomplishing what you start

As I said, discipline goes a long way.SpongeBob says he is ready, but what is he ready for ? He is ready to accomplish any task that he sets his mind on accomplishing. He doesn’t need to be motivated to accomplish them. He is always ready and has the mindset of accomplishing a task even though he might not feel like doing it.

Olaf

olaf in frozen

I never realised that the name of the snowman in frozen was Olaf. I only knew the name of the 2 sisters. What made me fall inlove with the movie was the 2 sisters, when the big sister made a song and whilst making the song she built her own ice castle.

Olaf is a character In a movie which involves two sisters. In this movie Olaf is a snowman who was given life by one of the sisters had the ability to turn anything into snow or ice.

Some people are worth melting for -Olaf

This statement speaks a lot for itself. When we bring it to normal human terms, it means some people are worth sacrificing your life for cause you know when it gets to your turn they will do so for you

These are some of the lessons I’ve learnt

🌹Choose your friends wisely

They ere are times where we tend to choose companions for certain reasons. We choose these friends because of a certain character they possess. But do we actually go for people who will be there for us when we really need them. When things are not as they were, will they be there. There are friends who will only be there when we have money but as soon as that money is not there any longer they disappear. These types of friends are not worth sacrificing your life for.

🌹Dont be that friend who will abandon your friend In times of his needs.

Loyalty or love goes both ways. Don't be a friend who will ghost on your friend when the time comes for to be there for him. As humans we tend to shy away from suffering. But at times some people only need a little helping hand from us and in no time they will be back to normal. Didn't abandon your friends at times that they need you the most.

Do you think the statement “A little bit of motivation can go a long way” is true or false? Explain your answer

For me, a little bit of motivation can go a long way. I stand for this notion 100%.

Everyone needs to be motivated once in a while. There are various form of motivation. For people who work, their form of motivation is the salary or wages that they get for their hard work or providing services to people. For people who attend school their motivation is that one day they will get a good paying job.

From people who blog on steam it, their motivation is that they get recognized for the outstanding post their have written and then they get curated. Even when we eat we hope that we can get strength from the food to go about our normal day to day activities.

In everything we do we are motivated. Now imagine if you knew that you were working for nothing. Will you feel like waking up from bed and getting ready for work? Will you feel like hurrying up to beat the traffic so that you could go serve customers? No.

Even for humans, we do feel down from time to time. It only takes a little talking to, to bring us back in track. As humans we like to be assured about what we are doing. We love to know that one day all the suffering will bring out something.

Why is motivation important to you as a person?

I am a human. I have my down times and my up times. When I excited everyone around me can see it. I am jovial and I smile a lot. When I am down nothing seems to excite me. Everyone around me suddenly seem to annoy me a lot. When I am down I do not feel like waking up from bed because I feel like my day wont be good.

Now when this happens to me, all I need to hear is that everything will be ok. There is this quote I've heard quite a lot.

“Everything shall pass with time” - Unknown speaker.

This quote seems to pop up a lot. This means that in your darkest of times where you feel like nothing is going on well for you, where you feel like the world should open up and swallow you, you should have patience because with time it shall pass. In your happiest moments where you feel on top of the world. You feel like nothing is stopping you from going higher, with time that excitement shall pass.

Now this quote doesn't discourage users from being happy or sad. It only tells us that no matter what us happening in our lives we should let nature take its cause. With time our sad moments will turn into happy ones.

Do you motivate others? Give two examples

Yes, I motivate people a lot. I am an active steem promoter in my area. Before signing up someone you first of all show him or her your earnings on the platform. That's one form of motivation, even though it is meant to let him fall in love with steemit, it is still a form of motivation.

After signing up the user, there are times where he wouldn't get the votes as he expected they would, he complains to you bitterly, what do you say to him? Continue posting, your stars will shine one day. You even send him steem from time to time so that he keeps the spirit up to post more.

Secondly, Allow yourself to feel excited no matter how small the achievement is.

There was a time when I was not excited about a lot of things. I didn't like it when people where excited about small things. I saw almost everything to be normal. But then I realised I was being a jerk. As humans we should let our selves celebrate the same little achievement. Just because we are not happy doesn't mean others too should remain sad.

I took a while for me to learn this and after learning this I tend to tell a lot of people to always stay happy no matter how small the achievements is.

What habits can you create to increase motivating yourself?

🌹The 5 minute rule.

This is a rule that I learnt online.

It goes like this “Allow your self to feel the pain or anger for only 5 minutes”. This means do 5 minutes you should allow your self regret for taking such a decision, allow your self grief. Bit after 5 minutes you should pick yourself up and move on. You should realise that no matter how much you regret doing it or grief over what you have done it can never be changed. You can never go back in time and correct that mistake. You should accept it and only take it as a lesson which you will look to avoid in future.

🌹Dont keep negative friends around you.

If I've not learnt anything about friends, I've learnt that some of our friends are filled with a lot of negative energy. For me once someone has done something I don't think that thing is impossible to accomplish. I strive to accomplish that thing no matter how far it might seem. I try to stay positive as possible so I dont like It when someone tries to discourage me when I want to do something which I know is good and can he accomplished.

I will rather prefer not having you as a friend than to have you as someone who doesn't want to see me try. When I try and fail I know that at least I did it, there were lessons learnt and I will pick myself up and try again another time.

🌹Stay consistent

Consistency is the key, as a lot of people always say. When we were kids, our teachers always told us that “practice makes man perfect” . Back then I didn't understand it. But now I get it. No matter how something seems to be difficult to handle at first, the moment we continue trying and trying it becomes easier and easier.

Just like the first time we signed up on steam it. We didn't know what to post or how to post but after doing it consistently for a while we tend to write posts daily and we are able to navigate and use steemit with ease.

I will end by saying, motivation is good but we need to be disciplined. Motivation without discipline is a waste of word.

I will like to invite @chenty, @osiola and @jimah1k to participate in the contest.

Thank you for reading my post.