Christiaan Eijzinga

My name is Cris, I am from the Netherlands, I am 28 years old, I have a blackbelt in Aikido, experience in Krav Maga, and Japanese swordsmanship. Right now, I am immersing myself in Muay Thai and muscle building.

I have formally studied philosophy and applied psychology at universities in Germany and the Netherlands.
I have lived in the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, and Spain. I speak four languages. French will be my next one.

These life experiences plus my formal education have given me abundant insight into the human mind. I am not Superman and I make mistakes every day, but I am always improving fast. I have acquired powerful tools which are also helping others to get better fast.
What I noticed is that during some periods of my life, I was very successful, motivated, and disciplined, whereas, in other phases, I felt lazy and without direction.

I found that it wasn’t that I had become a lazy person per se, but that discipline, motivation, and productivity were the conclusion of an argument and that my premises were inefficient.
In logic, premises lead to a conclusion.
For example:
Premise 1: Alice lives in Toronto.
Premise 2: Toronto is in Canada.
Conclusion: Alice lives in Canada.

Your motivation to do something is just like a logical argument. If your premises (reasons to be motivated) are chosen well, motivation will automatically be born.

Nietzsche summarized it like this: “If there is a why, there will be a how”.

Whenever I lack motivation, it is because of something. There is a reason.
Maybe I feel that the task doesn’t matter.
Maybe I feel that I don’t know how to do it.
Maybe I feel that I don’t know clearly which steps to take.
Maybe I feel that the task is very difficult.
Maybe I feel that a positive result from the task is very unlikely.

The next step is to see if these negative assumptions are true or how they can be mediated. Then, we try to raise the motivation level by finding "whys", reasons why you should spring into action. I will be there with you for this process of self-reflection.