Change your life
forever
To
truly motivate yourself in the life you want to live, actions required. Dr
Nathaniel Branden says: "a goal without an action plan is a
daydream."
1. Create a
vision.
Create a vision
of who you want to be and then live into that picture as if it were already
true. You create a vision; you don't wait until you receive a vision. In other
words you can make it up.
2. Tell a true
lie.
Make up a lie
about how great you are to make yourself sound unbelievably wonderful. Think of
some stories about who you'd like to be. Without a picture of your highest
self, you can't live in to that self.
3. Leave your
comfort zone.
Our society
encourages us to seek comfort. And yet only challenge will test our skills and make
us better. Only challenge and the self motivation to engage the challenge will
really transform us. And every challenge we face creates a more skillful self.
So it's up to you to constantly look for challenges to motivate yourself and
it's up to you to notice when you're buried alive in a comfort zone, then break
free and fly away.
4. Find your
key.
Napoleon Hill in
His book: "The Master Key to Riches" says: "The great master key
to riches is nothing more or less than the self discipline necessary to help
you take full and complete position of your own mind. Remember it is profoundly
significant that the only thing over which you have complete control is your
own mental attitude." Maybe the hill book won't be your own key, but I
promise you that you'll find your own instruction book if you keep looking.
You'll find it when you ready to seek. It's out there, waiting for you.
5. Plan your
work.
Many of us think
we are too depressed right now to start on a new course of self creation or
we're too upset, but napoleon hill says that's the perfect time to learn life's
most important rule. There is one unbeatable rule for the mastery of sorrows
and disappointments he says. And that's the transmutation of those emotional
frustrations through "definitely planned work." It's a rule which has
no equal. Once we get to picture of who we want to be definitely planned work
is the path to self motivation. Definitely planned work contains the energy of
purpose. One hour of planning saves three hours of execution. It is impossible
to work passionately with a sense of purpose and feel depressed at the same
time. Successfully planned work will motivate you to do more and more than you
ever thought possible.
6. Move your
goal a posts.
Most people are
surprised to learn that the reason they're not getting what they want in life
is because their major goals are too small and too vague. And therefore have no
power. Your major goal will not be reached if it fails to excite your
imagination. What really increases motivation is the setting of a large and
specific "power goal". A power goal is a dream that drives you.
People who have create a power goals are living on purpose. They know what
their up to in life. How can you tell if you've got a big enough and real
enough power goal? Simply observe the effect your goal has on you. It's not
what a goal is that matters; it's what a goal does.
7. Dribble with
your other hand.
It's not that
you can't, it's that you haven't. You need to start reprogramming your own
habits of thinking. You can think optimistically one thought at a time.
8. Play your
character.
How you act is
who you become. We can gain energy and inspiration by doing the character we
want to be. We can become who we act like we are.
9. Don't just do
something, sit there.
Sit quietly,
absolutely alone for a long time all by yourself, completely relax. Be with
yourself, observe insight starting to appear, observe your relationship with
yourself starting to get better. Sitting in silence allows your true dream in
life to take shape and clarity. In modern interactive civilized life today,
you're either living your dream or someone else's. And unless you give your
dream the time and space it needs to express itself, you'll spend a better part
of your life living the dreams of other people.
10. Use the
right chemicals.
Not
real drugs of course, instead get into those energizing chemicals already in
your system that get activated when you laugh or sing or dance or run or hug
someone. When you're having fun, your body chemistry changes and you get new
surges of motivation and energy. Don't keep trying to go out searching for
something that is fun it's not out there, anywhere. It's inside you. If you
can't immediately see the fun in something finds the way to create it. Once
you've made a job fun, you've solved the problem of self motivation.
