Don’t Wait Until You “Feel Like It”

Why I think motivation is utter garbage.

Gracia Kleijnen
3 min readAug 28, 2020

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A weekly planner on a table with a pen on top, surrounded by a necklace, a bracelet and a camera for aesthetic purposes.
Better start planning, or you’ll wait until you feel motivated for eternity — Photo by Jazmin Quaynor on Unsplash

We tend to see motivation as “feeling like it” and are guided by this feeling of wanting to do work, and let our output depend on it.

I used to think feeling like it was a prerequisite for doing anything. My reasoning was: “if I don’t want to do it, or if I don’t feel like it, then now apparently is not the…

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Gracia Kleijnen

Sheets & comics creator. Words on YT, relationships, mental health, productivity & self-development in 35+ pubs. 📕Book author: https://bit.ly/Gracia-Book