#motivations

If you had to give one life-changing tip, what would it be? Take your time and be patient with yourself. Don’t measure success with the someone else’s ruler.

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So after a short break from writing, I’m back at my kind-of-weekly column. I’ve been doing this in one form or another for over two decades. I have columns logged back years. I even have some experimental compendiums of my past writings. I’ve written a lot just blogging and journaling.

Of course I’ve taken breaks, or I’ve done light stuff. I’ve changed my plans and focuses. In fact, as of this writing I’m still thinking of my next steps. There are always next steps, always changes, but I keep writing.

And here’s an interesting question – why? Why do I keep writing. I can trace this back to my pre-teens. I just keep writing.

I know some people understand. I know you may understand. Some of us keep writing.

But it’s not much different from other driven creations, is it? There are people who draw and just draw even if they make money for it. There are collageists. There are actors who will take any role and did, and it seems well beyond any financial needs. There are musicians who just keep doing it.

And the truth is creativity and communication are parts of being human. It’s what we do. Writers are obvious as they create product. Artists are obvious because they make highly visiible creations. But we all do it.

There’s no difference between that friend that keeps doing improv, the friend writing fanfic, and the other friend who is first to do the PowerPoint presentations at work. They’re all creative, all expressive. The motivations may differ, but we all know people who want to get out there and say something.

Again, that’s almost certainly you. There is probably a way you express yourself and connect even if you don’t realize or appreciate it.

So I write because, well, that’s what I do. That’s my art (along with collage art). That’s what this is, my not-quite monthly posts. Whatever form they take in the future, it’ll be the same motivation, even if it manifests differently.

So there might be delays or changes, but I’ll be here, writing away.

Steven Savage

www.StevenSavage.com

1. Be nice but straightforward like an honest person even if it hurts

2. Never afraid of failing but only fearing of not doing or trying

3. Never afraid to be disliked but always choose what is better and best

4. Not into drama but always hunger for growth

5. Consistency beats perfectionism

6. Don’t push yourself to be discipline but change your routine because routine will show you to be discipline

7. Habits doesn’t have to be expensive but enjoyable

8. Knowledge is power and wisdom what makes it more effective

9. Second brain is very important

If your motivations are driven by anything other than that foundational identity, they lose their eternal weight. As the Apostle Paul famously wrote in 1 Corinthians 13:3, even if you do incredibly noble things, without love, "it profits me nothing."

'Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.'

May mga relatives naman na supportive lang pero meron din yung meron insecurity pero kailangan invited pa din sila sa events ng buhay mo and they are still showing supports kahit kitang kita yung insecurity nila. Those people are just watching your life but not really supporting you. I experienced this sa mga kapatid ng mother ko pero hindi naman lahat. Kapag pagdating sa mukha talaga, they will always say pinaka maganda si ganito, pinapa rate pa nila aa. Kung sino talaga ang pinaka at sa hindi.

Yung pinsan kong isa pinaka maganda at ako ang nasa pinaka mababa nga daw. Pero hindi naman ako nasaktan kahit isang beses kasi I don’t really care dahil hindi naman ganda ang batayan ee. Tapos yung isa naman marami honors at muntik na nga daw mag cum laude, tapos dalawa kami hindi napapansin. Then ang dami naging advantage sakin ng mga hindi ko pag pansin sa ganon, kasi ayuko din maging apple of the eye ee.

I really like my litte life, we have shelter, we ate 3 times a day. Wala akong dapat sabihin or ipag malaki dahil hindi naman nila kailangan malaman lahat ng nangyayari sa buhay ko. Everything is all on me. I’m with my family, we are blessed and God blessed us so much.

Walang kailangan patunayan and that is peace. Let’s not crave for other attention and let’s just focus on our own lives. Hindi kailangan ikaw ang may pinaka magandang gamit, pinaka upgraded, pinaka may pera. May kilala nga ako na halos mabaon na sa utang dahil sa mga commitment bills nya kahit hindi naman needs. I don’t what happened pero hindi ko pa sya naka usap tungkol sa iba nya na money problems.

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! — Psalm 139 | English Standard Version (ESV) The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 28:16; 2 Chronicles 19:2; Job 9:33; Job 10:8; Job 10:11; Job 14:5; Job 14:16; Job 22:13; Job 26:6; Job 31:6; Psalm 3:5; Psalm 5:8; Psalm 23:2-3; Psalm 33:11; Psalm 65:8; Psalm 119:115; Proverbs 29:27; Matthew 9:4; Romans 8:27; Romans 11:33; Hebrews 4:13; 1 John 1:5; Jude 1:15; Revelation 15:3