What's Your Motivation?

This was a Digital Photo Story created for the Digital Story Telling subject at JCU known as NM2203.

The story produced was written to a criteria, with the purpose of teaching somebody something through the use of a digital story, in the hope that they they might possibly learn something from it.

Music used and licensed under the Creative Commons license by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com. All images are owned solely by @nickswebtsv.

Story Transcript

I was the kid who never liked the idea of competing.

I dreaded the yearly school sports activities, such as the cross country the athletics day and God forbid that dreaded swimming carnival.

You can probably see I wasn’t really the athletic type, until one day, that day I decided to step up to the mark.

It all happened after a long summer’s break of mountain biking and weight-lifting.

I spoke highly of myself with my newly found personal confidence after suggesting how many tonne of weights I used to lift each afternoon.

I was told I should do the cross-country and prove it! So, I stepped up to the challenge and competed, scoring a top 10 finish and in-turn making the school cross country team. I also found something inside myself that day.

From that point on, I became known as ‘the machine’ at school and home.

Years went by and I continued to improve my athletic endurance, both in running, cycling and occasionally the swimming discipline.

I entered myself into my first triathlon in ‘08 and scored another top-10 finish in my chosen class.  

Since then I’ve been hooked on continually improving my performance in my chose sporting discipline; triathlons.

I train more than 10 hours a week with most days starting as early as 4am. You might ask why I do this? Well, I love competing to continually prove to myself I can be successful. It’s a great motivational tool.

So I leave you with this, What’s your motivation?