I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

So I've got another question from the Mind Valley community.

The question is, how do you find the motivation to fight

procrastination and actually be a machine balancing work, leisure, and play? So I want to share with you guys an idea that I got from the brilliant

Reverend Michael Beckwith, right?

Michael Beckwith said, you don't need motivation.

Motivation is rubbish.

All of those ideas that you have to go for motivational seminars or listen to a motivational

pep talk. It's rubbish. It's because the people who need that are not truly doing a job

or doing a role that aligns with their mission.

He says you can be pulled by a vision

or you can have the need to be pushed.

And if you need to be pushed, you're probably not pursuing the right

vision. But if your vision pulls you, you don't need to be pushed. You don't need motivation.

So I don't need motivation to do what I do because I wake up every day and I'm

pulled by a vision. Now I didn't get there automatically. It took me years to figure out what I really was meant to do.

I struggled with going from being a computer engineer,

being a photographer, being an actor, before I figured out what I really was meant to do, and that

vision now pulls me. But know when I was a programmer I

needed motivation so the question is do you need motivation or do you need to find a

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