Forget Motivation || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Failing with your To-Do list? || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00Most of us complain of lack of motivation.

00:02That is hardly a problem because motivation helps nobody.

00:05You do not require motivation.

00:07You require realization.

00:08The problem is that you do not know the tasks to take up.

00:12When you pen down something, when you assign a task to yourself,

00:16ask, is it important?

00:18If it is not important, why must I pretend to give it importance?

00:23Why must I even jot this thing down?

00:26Let me be bold enough to simply omit it or strike it out.

00:30And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it

00:35for five minutes and appreciate its importance?

00:38If something is important, don't just write down four words about it.

00:43Give four minutes to it.

00:44Just four minutes and ask yourself, why is this thing important?

00:48Why? What does it give to me?

00:51What does it turn me into?

00:52How does it help me, raise me, strengthen me, purify me?