Chapter 11 : Searching for lost motivation

Oh boy, where should I start... Well let's get straight away all the negative things off my chest and move towards the positive ones. Very frustrating week to say the least. I've noticed that for some unknown reason I seem to lack motivation in everything I do. I'm pretty positive that this is just some short downturn for me and maybe next week will already be a lot better. But somehow I just can't find a proper drive to do things and give one hundred percent of myself. Sorry to tell you guys but even writing this blog post is very strained right now and I don't have any desire to make the most out of it. It's not like I'm unhappy and depressed but I just lack motivation to do school things, work tasks etc. properly. I know that we all have these periods in our lives, I recognize my situation and I even know the cure for it. These kind of downside periods can last for a day, for a week or even a year but eventually something else will take its place and in this case, I hope it's a motivation burst for the rest of the spring. I just wanted to unveil my feelings because I think hiding your true feelings is very hypocritical, saying it aggravated way, and also deceiving yourself. Don't act happy if you're not, it's not an obligation in any situation and along with cheating yourself, you deceive others surrounding you by expressing wrong feelings and giving false signals. And even so, don't act super-hyper motivated if you're not. Show your true feelings, talk about them and let other people know about the situation for them to help you with it whether it is depression or lost motivation. Even adjusting tiny things in your life, with a help of other people or not, can help you on the right track but don't hesitate to face the problem valiantly. Just acknowledge it and start to clear a new path to success, happiness or whatever the goal is!

Meanwhile I wrote about my lack of motivation, I searched from YouTube some videos about it and bumped into this one. Very inspiring, encouraging and even funny. If you have a good 8 minutes to spare, I highly recommend it.

One thing that sure wasn't helpful to my lack of motivation considering school assignments and other school stuff was that I got sick AGAIN. Can't believe it, two times sick in just couple of months. Last time I have been struck by this kind of flu invasion in army back in 2014. Really frustrating and due to that, I missed Tuesday's lecture. Luckily this flu wasn't that strong as the earlier one so I managed to get myself in shape for rest of the week and I was able to visit NextLevel event which was held by PCAscala in its premises in Vallila, Helsinki. The event sounded very interesting because it was a meeting forum for exercise students such as personal trainer students and people who are already highly connected and involved in this ''fitness world''. In other words, it was an exercise recruiting trade fair. I have worked my ass out in gym from the early days of upper secondary school so from the get-go I was highly interested in this event and our assignment about it but... meh.

First of all, the assignment's instructions were quite unclear to say the least. We were supposed to come up with some ideas to market this event but we had no idea should we also execute those ideas or not. And then the instruction came to start executing the ideas just a week or something like that before the event. Okay cool but how can we execute an idea where we need free entry to the event's and company's social media channels' profiles and we had also a prize involved in our main idea which included personal trainer services for free etc.. I assume we cannot promise to people in Facebook that if they take part to our social media competition, they will win a wonderful prize from PCAscala, can we? Of course we could have asked about this, I admit that but even if we did ask two weeks earlier, there would have not been enough time to execute our campaign properly. So for next year's event and assignment, more time for planning and more time for executing the ideas. 

And about the event itself, it was OK but I can see that it was held for the first time. Not much to do, only look around things and talk to people in a relatively small amount of space (it was basically held in a gym). Fine gym and decoration but too small for an event to be held in. Of course there were not that many visitors either (at least when we were there) but something could be done to little bit spice things up in there (maybe more interesting guest speakers, compelling activities etc.) and if the event at some point hits the motherload, it definitely will need a much bigger place to be held in. 

Now I'm off to seek for my missing motivation. I hope you guys are full of it for the upcoming week and see you again on next week's post!