Premium
What motivates men to keep working hard?
Men do not always need conventional motivational speakers.
Men do not always need conventional motivational speakers, and that's because our issues and circumstances often speak to us, motivating us to do better and be better versions of ourselves.
Our unconventional motivational speakers come in all shapes and sizes. They speak in different tones. Some tones freak us out. Others spur our faith and cause us to think outside our boxes.
Below are some of these unconventional motivational speakers
Rumbling stomach
This is the oldest motivational speaker known to man. He has been known to cause some men to sell their inheritance. And they only come to realise they made the biggest mistake of their life when it's too late.
Brothers, we all know the MO of this motivational speaker. He often delivers his long, rumbling lectures after we have skipped a meal or two, so our family can have three square meals.
All men know that this motivational speaker is unforgiving and shameless. He has been known to deliver his rapturous speech in public, and regardless of how we try to muffle him, he keeps on airing our dirty linen in public.
This motivational speaker angers us. Why, a hungry man is most often an angry man. But the smart ones among us go past anger, and we heed this motivational gem from The Hunger Games: “As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.”
Beeping sound of the electricity metre
This motivational speaker always forces men to start doing math. We are quietly adding up how long the remaining tokens last.
This one annoys men because the message can be heard by everyone in the house and - if the man is unfortunate enough to live cheek-by-jowl with his neighbours - almost half the apartment.
It may seem like a small, inconsequential voice. However, this motivational speaker sends men into a frenzy and causes them to make certain declarations: “I will not have a blackout in my house.”
“Food will not go bad in my freezer because I don’t have electricity.”
Clanging sound of the landlord's padlock
This motivational speaker is brutal. Oftentimes, a man cannot negotiate with this brutish speaker. Besides, he doesn't take any prisoners.
This motivational speaker sends a man tons of messages. “You're about to be homeless.” “Please brace yourself for shame and anguish.” “Fasten your belt, buddy, this rollercoaster is about to get rough.”
Sometimes this motivational speaker doesn't speak directly to a man, but speaks to a neighbour. Or an acquaintance. At such times, we eavesdrop on the conversation. And then we get it. We realise that the message being sent is meant for all men, regardless of their economic status.
This motivational speaker causes men to lose sleep and appetite. But it also inspires men to strive for stability and to own the roof above their heads.
Incessant alerts from debt collectors
As men, we know the frequency of text alerts we normally receive. For some of us, our phones can be dead for days. For others, the rat-a-tat alerts mirror the depths of personal and business relationships we have.
If we have taken a loan from a mobile lending app, we know what we have signed up for: being haunted by incessant alerts, which come with abuses.
Though we are being threatened and belittled, we flip the script and get motivation to get our finances in order. We tell ourselves, “I will do better, and I will leave generational wealth - not just to my children - but to my grandchildren.” “Never again will I allow myself to be in financial slavery.”