100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

19. Use your brain chemicals

There are drugs that you can use to motivate yourself with, those energizing chemicals in your system that get activated when you hug someone, laugh, sing, dance, or run. When you’re having fun, your body chemistry changes and you get new biochemical surges of motivation and energy.

There isn’t anything you do that can’t be transformed into something interesting and uplifting. Victor Frankl has written startling accounts of his life in the Nazi concentration camps, and how some prisoners created new universes unto themselves inside their own minds. It might sound absurd, but truly imaginative people can access their inner chemical creativity in the loneliness of a prison cell.

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