This is why you can't work hard

Do you ever find yourself in a state where you can't work hard despite knowing that it is the need of the hour?

Off course you have!

In fact, everyone of us have gone through the same at least once in our life.

You get motivated to do something...

You decide to go for it...

You set specific goals...

You make a plan to make it happen...

You begin with all your enthusiasm but all the motivation is gone in between and there.... exactly there you give up when you don't see any results and get demotivated.

It shouldn't happen, right?

I mean you know what needs to be done,

You have all the resources to do it,

You have made your mind to do it

Yet for some reasons, after some time or attempts, you give in and you are back to where you started.

The point is, what causes this?

I know the reason behind this from my experience.

I think the major reason we can't work hard or find it difficult to work consistently is we are not clear WHY we should do it in the first place!

You see where we get it wrong?

Lack of clarity about the reason

Let's understand it by an example:

Assume you are in a college and you want to get placed in your college placements.

You know what you need to do for this:

study hard, maintain a good mark sheet throughout your college, prepare for interviews.

But how many students from your batch manage to crack this code?

Only a handful, right?

While a majority of the students don't get any job offers.

So what is the reason behind this?

Lack of talent?

I don't think so, because all the students are in the same college so it's safe to assume that they have at least the intellectual ability to crack the initial tests if they put enough efforts.

In fact, I have even seen the most intelligent one not getting placed and the average making it through!

Lack of time?

Everyone gets 24 hours in the day, no more...no less

So what is the reason?

The main factor here is the clarity.

From my personal experience, I can say for sure that generally the ones who get placed have the strong reasons and clarity about why they need to get placed.

For some, it might be money,

For some, it may be their dream company or job.

But everyone of them have one thing in common, they know WHY they need to get placed.

Thus, the clarity is the thing which sets them apart from the ones who couldn't make it and not intelligence, having extra time or anything of that.

This just doesn't apply to one thing. It's true for any aspect of our life.

If you have enrolled for gym and find it difficult to maintain discipline, then be clear about WHY you want to go to the gym.

The reason might be to be healthier

 or 

To feel positive

 or

To attract hot girls

It might be anything but be clear about it and then see how easy it becomes!

Why having a reason is important in life?

Whenever you start something, if you are clear about why you want to do or achieve something, you don't need external motivation to perform the required steps.

What really happens is since you are clear about your why, it is less likely that you'd be influenced by other factors that would distract you.

The surprising thing is, you can use this clarity to beat the masses who are more smart or luckier than you but don't have the clarity.

Many folks believe that they need to be intelligent to become successful in a particular field. Which is false. 

I'm not saying intelligent is not required. It surely helps. But it's not the deciding factor.

Coming back to the point, let's say you are average and want to become successful in a particular field. 

You don't have a kick start but you have one asset to your side, CLARITY. 

If you are clear about your WHY, it'd be much easier for you to figure things out in the process. You just have to start. In this era of internet, you have all the required information at just one click.

See the big companies around you and observe their owners and founders. Do you think that they possess more technical knowledge than the thousands of smart employees who work for them? 

Hell no!

The reason why those SMART people work for founders is that they had the vision and knew why they wanted to start a particular thing.

So from now on, whenever you find it difficult to take required steps, don't doubt your abilities or change plan or overthink anything. Because these are not the root causes. The main problem lies in not having clarity. So just sit down and think "Why do I need to do this?", "Why doing this will help me?", "How is it going to make my life better?"

I'm pretty sure that once you are able to answer all these questions clearly, the rest will fall in place.

Just remember that before starting anything new, instead of making perfect plan or second guessing your abilities, if you put even half of those efforts in making your reasons to begin stronger, you'd be in  much better state.