T. Harv Eker explains that motivation comes from energy, which in turn comes from passion and purpose — especially a compelling "why" for doing something. He uses a personal story of past struggle to illustrate why helping others and having a strong purpose fuels his motivation and informs his advice.
So what would I tell someone who might be struggling with motivation? Well, the big question is, why are you struggling with motivation? It's all about energy, right? So generally what happens is people who don't have motivation in an area don't have energy towards that area. They don't have a passion for it, they don't have a purpose for it. So the biggest thing that gives you passion and purpose is your why. Why are you doing what you're doing? If you don't have a big enough why? Something that excites you, something that motivates you, then why would you have motiv? Okay, that's first. You've got to have a bigger why. That why can be for yourself or it can be for others as a purpose. Like, I want to help people succeed because I went through such struggle myself. This is very, very important to me. I know what it feels like to be broke. I know what it feels like to be not nearly as successful as you like to be. I know what it feels like to have expectations of yourself and just be disappointed. I know what it feels like. It feels like crap. And I hated it. It was the worst time of my life. And that's why this is so important to me that I help other people succeed, because I know what that felt like, okay? So that's why when I get in front of a room or in front of a camera, I'm not thinking about me. I'm thinking about who is listening, who is watching, what situation are they in? And is there any way that I could possibly give them some strategy, some knowledge, some methodology, some anything to help them succeed?
