You can’t make it burn [The literal or internal flame]

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I’ve blogged before about fire.

You know the stuff.

Flames and all that.

Takes fuel, oxygen and ignition.

GCSE science innit?

We’ve probably all set something on fire at some point.

We know how it works.

But we didn’t really ‘create’ the fire, did we?

We can’t ‘make’ things burn.

We can just create the conditions where fire is the likely outcome.

Manage the variables that feed into that.

Control the inputs, not the outcome.

Knowing which inputs make the desired outcome most likely.

For fires of the literal type……….

And that internal one.

Motivation.

That feeling inside us.

That desire to do something.

We can’t make that happen either.

We can’t create motivation.

We can’t conjure it out of thin air.

We can’t even force it to happen with the right inputs like we can’t force something to burn.

But we can control those inputs………..

Those variables……….

To make it most likely.

To make it pretty probable to happen given time.

We can make the better choices when we don’t feel motivated to;

Food
Exercise
Sleep
Meditation

Knowing that it makes it more likely that motivation will come, with time.

We don’t just expect a log to burn.

Then get annoyed with it for not being alight.

We control the variables that go into it.

Our internal flame is the same.

Much love,

Jon ‘Bangles’ Hall