Back in the mid-1990s, I was in a really hard place where I was going to college part-time but could not yet afford to go full-time. This time was absolutely agonizing and miserable because I was SO READY to move forward but was still stuck in a hard place for a while--then I took one small action to mark this important moment along my life's timeline that still motivates me today to keep going for life-long learning and improvement. Could it be something so simple as a discarded object you find in the dirt that motivates you to change and not give up? It just might.