No incentives - Daily prompt, 5 minutes free write

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Every time that I think about life, I like to imagine it as being at sea where the sail could be smooth, and it could also be rough on stormy nights. I have never been at sea before, but I sure have seen several clips of it in movies, and I can very much live the rest of my expectations via my imagination.

In times of distress, I'd always motivate myself with the saying calm sea never makes successful sailors. Thus, a time of distress is a time to be creative, and what greater motivation to pull out of those dark nights than the hunger to succeed?

While I put in the effort and keep pushing to greater days ahead, I sometimes fall off from that momentum of wanting to achieve greatness. I sometimes do not get the needed results, and the frustration burns. There were days I'd look further at my situation and those challenges, and my skin would crawl, my heart would pound, and my mind would race.

The times of no incentives, those times when efforts are poorly compensated, and you feel like quitting is a much better option to go by. The times of burnout and the hidden desires of going down with the ship. The times when you look at the dark clouds, and all hope seems lost.

Yeah, those nights of nothingness, the nights that could either make you or break you.

The nights of no incentive.