Increase Your Motivation
I'm sure there are loads of things you are motivated to do
. Think out it; if you saw 50 pounds lying on the street I'm pretty sure you'd be motivated to pick it up pretty quickly. If you had to wait until next week, it would surely be gone! How about all those things you enjoy doing; like spending time with friends, watching movies, shopping? You're therefore motivated to do some things and not others.
The things you're motivated to do are fun, enjoyable and easy. The areas you lack motivation are when things are dull, boring and hard work. When you have more positive empowering emotions you're more likely to take action and do something, as opposed to when you have disempowering emotions. We all want more fun, excitement and enjoyment and less boredom, frustration and stress.
Psychology and Mechanics
Everything you do is 80% Psychology and 20% Mechanics. What this means is that thinking of doing something is the 80% and actually doing it is the other 20%. Think about it; if you're not motivated to exercise, you'll think about how hard it is to get yourself to gym and all the negative things that make it such an effort. What you may not realise is, once you get yourself to start exercising it makes you feel so good, and it really is easy and fun.
The actual act of exercising is the mechanics (20%) and getting your mind right to get you to the gym is the Psychology (80%). When you see something as tough, boring and hard work (all the disempowering emotions) it's pretty tough to get yourself motivated to start that task. Whereas when you see something as fun, enjoyable and exciting you're pulled towards it and it's easy to motivate yourself to do. Here is a great technique to give yourself more motivation in the areas you're struggling with.
Visualize and Anchor
Close your eyes and visualise a situation in the past where you were having amazing fun and enjoying yourself. See yourself in that situation like you're in a big blockbuster movie. See what your saw, hear what you heard and notice how good you felt. Step inside yourself in that movie and see everything through your own eyes, as you're having all this fun. Double the size of the picture and notice where the feeling start in your body and where they spin to. Spin these feelings faster and faster and bathe yourself in these great feelings as you notice all the sounds around you. Double the pace of the spinning and notice how good you feel.
When you feel great squeeze your thumb and middle finger for 2-3 seconds and then release, this will create and anchor. Keep spinning these feelings and whenever they're at the height of their intensity, squeeze your thumb and middle finger to reinforce this anchor. Do it 3-5 times until you can fire this anchor off and feel all these amazing feelings spreading throughout your body.
Transfer the feeling
Now close your eyes again and take a deep breath in as you relax your body. Visualize in your mind a situation where you're struggling to be motivated. Imagine it like you're in a blockbuster movie and see yourself successfully performing this task. Notice the way you move, the way you breathe and the smile on your face as everything plays out the way you want it to play out. Now step inside yourself in that movie and see everything through your own eyes. See what you'll see through your own eyes as everything plays out the way you want it to play out in that situation. Now double the size of the picture and fire off your anchor (thumb and middle finger).
Notice all those amazing feelings rushing back and filling your body. Notice the way they spin in your body and spin them even faster as you notice everything you see. Allow yourself to hear any sounds around you while you spin these great feelings even faster. Feel yourself starting to smile while you enjoy performing this task, and fire off your anchor again. Now quadruple the spinning feelings in your body as you're enjoying performing all these tasks successfully. Do this for about 10 minutes until you feel great.
Now open your eyes and think of this situation where you used to lack motivation. How has it changed? Do you feel a totally different feeling inside? I bet it doesn't seem that tough now? With these empowering emotions inside, it will allow you to get started on this task. I'm sure you'll find that once you've started, you'll see it's really not that tough at all.
The best way to condition a new emotion is to practice it over and over until it becomes an automatic behaviour. So practising visualizing and anchoring everyday for the next three weeks to create this new empowering habit, and see a huge leap in your motivation.
by: Ross Chouler
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