Why You Should Stop Reading Motivational Quotes Right This Second.

in #funny8 years ago

The next time anybody tells me to “Go for it”, “go follow your dreams” or tells me to “never give up”, I am going to knock them out with my punch.

Recently I have been hearing a whole lot of motivational quotes speeches or sayings; everybody has become a motivational speaker now a days.

First of all let me explain there is nothing wrong with all these quotes, but listening to those quotes won’t make you believe in them or follow them and the real fact is that even if you are not following them you are still passionate, you still love yourself. In fact what these motivational quotes do is make you hate yourself. Don't they?

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Have you ever noticed how every one of those motivational speakers, writers or preachers, have that tone in them like "I am superior then you because I follow this", Have you ever noticed that?

These people think that all we need in our life is a motto and all the problems in our life are going to disappear if we follow it. Is that really easy?

You must have been told by them that you don't have passion, you don't have courage you don't have this you don't have that and why you are not successful, Next time I will punch them In the face and will say "Thank you for telling me what I already know".

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I can't blame all of them; because I am the reason they are telling me that, I am letting them try to motivate me.

We all have seen that article titled, ‘How to lose weight in 5 days’, ‘How to get rich with this successful trick’, ‘Do this and women will love you’. And we all must have clicked on them thinking hey, finally there is that thing that was missing from my life and now I will be able to achieve it. Isn’t it?

But 100 pages later, did you achieve anything or did you pity yourself more in how wrong you have been all your life?

Why am I letting somebody else motivate me or tell me what to do when I am perfectly capable of thinking that and tell it to myself?

Well I have said enough, I don't mean to sound like a motivational speaker, I don't want you to think I am motivating you in anyway, I don't want any of you to punch me in the face.


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I understand your point @utfull. These motivational speakers nowadays are just becoming like "I am better, you should follow me". We can learn from these quotes but we need to actually apply it to our lives, and see what works.

The best thing is to go out and have some new experiences, then share your own quotes or what you've learned.

I guess this trend is due to the fact that coaching, hypnosis, meditation are on the minds of a lot of people atm. But as every domain in human knowledge there's a lot of people that have no idea of what they are doing.
In this particular case, trying to motivate people by crushing them with what they could be can be very bad for several personnalities

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Hello! I would like to nuance your article. Because in a way I don't agree with you and I agree in the other way.

You are right when you says that today, so many people are motivator and look like guru.

But I don't think you are right when you says that we have to quit to read theses motivationnals quotes. Indeed, reading them isn't useful. You have to incorporate them in your soul. And this take time. And nobody can help you to do that (especially not a guru). But if you stop to read theses quotes, you miss something in your life. At least, by reading them, you are aware of it in a rational way. Maybe in years it will be incorporate in your soul.

And you are so right that no article with a miracle recipe will help us... But you know that I 've read a book and in the entire book there were a sentence who eletrochocked me and I changed all my life before of this sentence !

Why am I letting somebody else motivate me or tell me what to do when I am perfectly capable of thinking that and tell it to myself?

You should be very strong to be able to tell it to yourself and It takes time. Maybe you don't need a guru (especially when you have to pay him/her!) but what about having friends like you to motivate each others? I am working on myself (self-developpement) for more than 15 years now and I just find the benefits of its now.... Because I started to work with a group of friends (we motivate each others every days and have a meeting every week). Alone, I wans't able to grow up.

Just to share my thought.

Have a nice day,

Roxane