"How do you stay motivated
in schoolwork when you get down?"
Oh that's a very tough one
How do we get us motivated?
Well, personally, I would say the answer comes from
what we all do in Ardaas
We all say these words here:
Right?
So from Naam we get Chardikala
So you shouldn't really be Dukhi
Like we question the question says:
"When you get down how do I stop myself getting down?"
Because the motivation is going out of you
because of the depression
So the depression or getting down is coming in
and it's killing the motivation
So if you remove that disease of getting down
Motivation will still be fine
It will survive
So you haven't lost motivation
You got depressed
So don't try and increase motivation
Try and get rid of the depression
There are two ways to skin this cat
Rather than trying to increase motivation while you're depressed.
Let's get rid of the depression
and maybe you won't need motivations.
They're still there
So the solution here is: solve the depression
Personally, I find that Naam solves the depression
You forget the depression.
That's what Guru Tegh Bahadur ji says:
You talk about this person
So Guru Sahib is telling us the person who leaves desires
The person leaves Dukh, who leaves Sukh
who leaves money, who leaves all these things
This is the kind of person
The Kaam, Krodh..
they leave those things
This is the kind of person they try to make us become
The only way for us to become what they want us to become is through Naam
So solve the different depression using Naam
and hopefully the motivation won't even be a problem
Another Singh recently he kept his Kesh
His whole life him and his family all had like Pagha
and trim beards,
He had it and his brother had it
They are a trim Singhs family
Now what happens to this guy is
he keeps his Dhari and starts doing his Paatth
That's a big change for his family, you know,
so they asked what happened.
He says "one day, I woke up in the morning and I did Japji Sahib"
and that day, I got so much work done
He was like "I thought is gonna get less done"
"because I did Paatth and I woke up earlier but I got more done"
So I realized Naam is a really good for you.
So I just kept my Dari as well.
So, he's worked out that the Guru Sahib is a doctor trying to help us,
not someone trying to give us more work
You're somebody in a busy world and you starting to get more work to do and you think
"Man, doesn't Guru Sahib realize how busy the world is?"
"I haven't got time for Paatth"
That person doesn't realize what Paatth will do to them.
If they start to do Paatth,
They'll get more done with less time.
How much time you waste at work?
Come on!
Come on, let's be honest!
How much time we really waste through every day?
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...
That blah blah blah TV...
We waste so much time in the day!
You could measure how much time you're productive on your fingers.
Maybe you're productive for like 15 minutes in the whole day.
Maybe half an hour, if you're lucky
An hour, maybe.
That's what it's like
So imagine if you could actually use like you work for two hours
because you were motivated
because the depression, the Dukh wasn't there
from Naam
So that's one thing I was saying