"Motivational Bullshit"

Warning: I know this might all be a little ironic, coming from someone who often ends his writing by repeating "go" and "fight" multiple times, but I'm going to accept the inherent contradiction and just keep going...

I was reading something today by a "business guru", and at the end he said something that I found relatively profound.

Let me preface this by saying that I have been reading his little blog posts/writings for a while now, every day for 90 days or so, and some of the initial lustre (somehow the British spelling, lustre, is much more appealing than the American luster...luster sounds like someone who is always lusting...) wore off a while ago.  You can only have someone write in ALL CAPS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BE SUPER CUSTOMER-CENTRIC AND ALWAYS NETWORKING AND ALWAYS GOING THE EXTRA MILE, ETC., for so long before you start to become immune to it.  And truly, although this guy has written some things that have really made me pumped up and ready to work harder/smarter than everyone else, I have begun to think that he is kinda full of upper-management gobbledygook about half of the time.  I'm sure he believes everything he says/writes with 110% conviction, but it's just that he's not always aware of the difference between writing something meaningful/insightful and writing something that is, as I mentioned above, AN ALL CAPS "YOU-NEED-TO-WAKE-UP-AND-SMELL-THE-CUSTOMER-SERVICE" bombardment.  It can be a little bit much sometimes.

So I've started to simply skim his writings to see if they're of the valuable, insightful variety or the all-caps, cheer-leading variety...today's piece was almost entirely in the latter category, except for what he said at the end.  Namely, "please, don't dismiss this as motivational bullshit."  It's kind of ironic...I do in fact think that his preceding lines were mostly motivational bullshit.  But to tell someone not to dismiss motivational bullshit is eye-opening.  Why?  Because that is a powerful reminder that you are in control of your mind.  It is important to remember that you have the power to take yourself to that amazing, mystical mindset...that mental space that allows you to become an unstoppable force.

If you can remember to be aware of your own power, remember your drive, your clarity, focus, energy, whatever you want to call it....if you can remember that incredible internal aspect of yourself that allows you to grow and to be strong in challenging times, then you are going to feel more alive.  And, somehow, that perspective allows you to see something inspirational or meaningful in words that, only moments earlier, were simply "motivational bullshit".  In fact, that perspective allows you to see inspiration and meaning in the entire universe.