Create your own motivation

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I recently read about a guy on X who made $24000 by creating crypto project content on KAITO, and guess what? They did it in 6 months. I tried KAITO as a small account owner on Twitter and earned 0.5 KAITO despite having been active for 6 months.

I did not want to go into introspection or spend the rest of the day wondering what this guy did right that I didn't; it was obvious: he did not just have a decent Twitter following, he had a blue check mark and had already begun participating before me.

He was focused on earning content creator rewards, while I was focused on earning testnet rewards; six months later, it became clear that becoming a creator was the better option. Again, I chose not to create content, despite the fact that I could (with proper research), but I lacked a blue check or Twitter subscription.

I did not consider the number of followers because I knew I would get more if I had a blue check mark. All it will take is a few months of consistency, possibly 6 to 8 months of creating and networking.

Of course, a blue check mark costs about $8 per month, and because it is not a one-time subscription, it means that if my subscription expires, I will lose access to the content creation features it includes, such as long-form content.

I did not have a sustainable model for continuing to pay $8 per month because I had previously made some terrible financial decisions that cost me money, and I could not have done it with my limited resources. It did not bother me when I read that post, but I knew if my partner saw it, she would be bothered.

Magical money momentum

Despite the fact that we have only been in business for a little over two weeks, she is constantly sending me pictures or links to tweets about people who made $20,000 and how they are celebrating it.

She is a newbie who has no idea how they made that money, how long it took, how much research they did, and how consistent they were.

Apparently, I have always had to remind her that it requires a tremendous amount of effort, and that she lacks the necessary energy and time. However, I still do not think she understands it, and she always sends me pictures of people who made $30k for doing things she had no idea they did.

Using the success stories of others to gauge your timeline and efforts can lead to feelings of unfulfillment.

One of the most common ways to do this is to compare your efforts to those of others. We tend to believe that because our efforts resemble those of others, we should be succeeding in the same way they are.

When I was younger, I knew parents who would compare their children to other children who were smarter and more intelligent, and then blame them for failing to perform well in class.

Back then, intelligence was measured by finishing first in class. However, the metric is always the same. We cannot compare different people's knowledge levels using similar metrics because one thing is certain: the data will always be flawed, favoring only some people.

Free is not always free

Apparently, my partner was not as hardworking as you would expect, but after earning $5,000 from doing almost nothing, she likely assumed that was how easy it was to make money on a consistent basis.

It is actually a very scary mindset, and one of the reasons she feels this way is that many people rarely post about the efforts they put in to succeed. Most of the time, they are quick to tell people how successful they have become without mentioning the hard work they put in.

We always try to downplay the importance of hard work and success, probably because we believe that discussing how difficult it was to achieve would make the success appear less flashy. However, what this does is foster the belief that anything is possible, regardless of what you did or did not do.

People, in my opinion, should be their own sources of motivation rather than looking for it elsewhere. We live in a time when people are rewarded for flaunting themselves. We often underestimate the attention economy.

Attention economy

For example, when you go to Instagram, you will see a lot of women who are not even wearing clothes and posting the most revealing aspects of their bodies. You may think this makes no sense, but when you look at their following section, you will see a lot of people who are following them and hoping to see them on a daily basis.

Because of how nudity sells, these people have suddenly become influencers, and before you know it, companies will be sending them invitations to become ambassadors. This is not because they posted any meaningful content; they only had to post nudity and controversy to gain a following.

If you do not understand how to be your own stepping stone It will be difficult for you to grasp how far you have come. Even the worst mistakes provide some form of learning and adaptation.

People who do not make mistakes do not learn, and when they do not learn, they are unable to adapt. When you are unable to adapt, you know you are not growing. My partner needs to learn to be her own motivation, and I hope I can help her understand why this is so important.

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