We all are subject to time. We all are subject to the strengths and weaknesses of our minds. We all are a bit nervous about this or that.
If I act out of fear, I will hit a wall. If I am honest and say that I don't know, that I am not sure if this is going to work, that I don't think I'm able to do this, I'll be better off.
Being strong isn't too dissimilar from being bold. Being bold can mean not being afraid of showing my shortcomings. Showing my shortcomings means admitting my weaknesses. By showing my weaknesses I am being strong. Do this day after day and see that things are generally going in the right direction, maybe a little slower than I expected, but things aren't linear, time is.
I can control the outcome in so much as I can control myself. It'll happen if I do it. It won't if I don't. That could mean project managing the fuck out of something, it doesn't have to mean actually doing it.
If I motivate someone else to do it, then that was something I did. I did something to get them to do something.
What if I can't motivate myself? Well, I can't muster some things out of thin air. I need to fill the soul. I talk to someone else, do something else, change perspectives, or I push. I just push.
Action yields motivation. The more that I have, the more capacity I have to act, the more I'll be motivated to do more.
My family, my wife, what I've been given, is why I push myself to learn that thing or do that thing.
Idk, kinda stream of consciousness but generally, the thought that I am more well off because of the millions of people that came before me, and by doing and acting, I can make the billions after me more well off in a small way. I like that thought.