Has anyone seen my “Motivation”? It is several weeks into the new semester and I just can’t seem to locate my motivation anywhere. I thought about calling public safety and asking them to check the ‘lost and found’ to see if anyone found it and turned it in. Then I realized if anyone found something that valuable, they most likely would keep it for themselves.

So the other day I came home and started searching at the house.

I looked under the bed and found one shoe, two dog toys, three sleeping cats, and four dust bunnies. Sebastian, the chocolate Labrador, assumed this was a neat new game and joined me in searching. The cats were not amused.

Then it occurred to me that my motivation was not external but internal; I climbed into my mind to look around that disorganized cluttered space. I found things marked ‘memories of motivation’, ‘yearning for motivation’, and ‘semi panic due to not finding motivation’ and an empty basket labeled current motivation.

Sebastian convinced me a game of ‘fetch ball’ with him outside would clear my head. Have you ever watched a Labrador Retriever focus on the objective during a game? That sense of complete focus is what I need to get back and quickly before the semester proceeds any farther.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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