00:00Choose the goal properly.
00:14Let the goal be so compelling that the goal itself is a defense against distractions.
00:25If you choose a goal that's not worthy enough, it makes no sense to stay concentrated on
00:35it.
00:36You'll try a lot to concentrate on your goal, but you'll find that invariably you get distracted
00:45after a while.
00:47That's not because the distractions are powerful.
00:50That's because your goal is powerless.
00:54So the goal has to be right.
00:57Don't talk so much about how you get distracted.
01:02Talk about how first of all you have made something into your goal.
01:06How has something become your target?
01:08How have you come to desire something?
01:12If your goal setting process is influenced from the outside, then your goal would never
01:19really be your own goal and therefore you will never feel internally totally committed
01:25to it.
01:26You may persuade yourself towards the goal, but that persuasion cannot last long.
01:35It cannot have too much strength.
01:36You cannot drag a man to run a marathon.
01:43If he has to run a marathon, then the inspiration has to be internal.
01:51Can you imagine a man being dragged to complete a marathon?
01:56For how long will you drag him?
01:59Most of us running after goals are like that person being dragged.
02:07Is that inspiration really yours or are you rushing after a goal because a thousand other
02:15people want the same thing?
02:21Are you following a trend or have you really thought it out?
02:27Have you put in time, effort to see whether your inclinations are real or just conditioned?
02:40We do not address these basic questions and therefore we keep struggling with motivation.
02:48We say we are demotivated, we are distracted.
02:51You are demotivated because your motive itself is unworthy.
02:57What is the worthy motive then?
03:01The worthy motive would always have something to do with your current condition.
03:13It would either be something that gives you joy or it would be something that gives you
03:19liberation.
03:21And even these two, after a point you will see, are identical.
03:26It would either be something that gives you unconditional joy, purposeless joy.
03:36It is something you can do without getting any reward.
03:41If there is something that attracts you this way, then it's fit to be your goal.
03:48And if you are rushing towards something because that something will offer you something
03:53in return, then that's a strong indication that you have wrongly chosen your goals.
04:01If you say that that particular point X ahead of you is your goal because upon reaching
04:09X you will be rewarded with money or career or prestige, then chances are you will not
04:16be able to sustain your motivation for long.
04:19Whereas, if you are doing something just for the unadulterated pleasure of doing it, you
04:27don't want something in return.
04:28The doing is the return.
04:31You're not saying I'll get something after being successful.
04:37If you are saying the very process of doing that thing is the bliss, the return, the reward,
04:47then you will never be distracted.
04:51And the other thing I said is that you will stay with your goal if your goal liberates
04:56you.
04:57Identify where you are in bondage, challenge that bondage.
05:05And if challenging that bondage is your goal, then again you will stay committed, you will
05:11not be distracted.
05:14These two things you must find out.
05:16Does your goal offer you unconditional joy?
05:22You understand unconditional?
05:24You're not saying I'll be happy only after receiving the returns.
05:30You are saying whether I succeed or fail, I'll be just happy.
05:36Because just being in this, just being in the journey, just being in the process is
05:40so nice.
05:42Then you'll stay with this goal.
05:45Congratulations, you have come upon something beautiful.
05:48Or if your goal leads to your freedom and liberation, then again your goal would never
05:59dissatisfy you or disinterest you.
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