Motivation Myths, Facts and New Paradigms (from the book, Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business)

Motivation Myths, Facts and New Paradigms (from the book

, Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business)

What we were once told about motivation and what we now know these days is changing. People fail all the time because of lack of motivation. After all, if you can't have fun at what you do, why do it?

Let's look at the few of the myths of motivation and what we now know:

Myth #1. You need to start to feel yourself into it.

One of the first myths about motivation is that you need to start to get into the grove. While this is one of the ways to do it, it's actually the harder route. When you feel good, you perform well. When you feel like crap, your performance suffers.

When you have a good day, everything seems to go good for youbecauseyou feel good. And then other days your performance suffers because you skipped breakfast, didn't get anyexerciseand didn't get enough sleep, those are the days when you feel like doing nothing but laying on the couch watching TV.

You're not at the mercy of your emotions if you know how to improve your mood. Some days will just turn out bad, not enough sleep, too much stress, whatever. You cant stop those days from happening, but you can do things to improve your mood. The truth is, and you know this from experience, you need to feel good to perform good. And so, good emotional performance is closely linked to goodpsychical or mentalperformance.

Myth #2. You need to have more compelling goals and harsher consequences for failing.

What happens when you focus more on the scoreboard than on the performance? Your performance takes a beating. For years personal development gurus have told us to stay focused on our goals, constantly keep focused on your goals and dreams, don't deviate, work hard towards that light at the end of the tunnel. The "tunnel-vision" outlook on success is horribly flawed. Because look around, you're not in a tunnel, there are opportunities everywhere. Time changes, people change, circumstances change. If you're in a tunnel you have no where to turn. Keep a broad perspective, keep adapting. Blinders work great on horses but not on people, horses don't have a goal in mind, the driver does. You're the driver, so take off the blinders.

Pressure and attachment create stress, which causes performance to suffer.

The part you miss when you spend too much time focusing on goals is the enjoyment you can derive from the performance. The reason most people who have all the tools andresources, and the right reasons,don't succeed is because they don't enjoy the process. If you don't enjoy the performance you wont be motivated to work hard. And working hard and focusing on your goals takes two different kinds of skills. Focusing on goals require you to live in another time for a little bit, performing well requires you focus on the moment and the task at hand. If you're constantly thinking either about the past or the future, you're missing the present and your performance and passion for the process is being overshot.

Ever notice that people who are poor at setting goals are great at getting things done, and people who are great visionaries and dreamers have a hard time getting themselves going? This is due to the focus.

Focus on your performance, enjoy the process and be apart of every second of it. The prize is not totally at the end, the prize is the journey. And if you don't enjoy what you're doing, learn to enjoy it. Talk yourself into enjoying stuff you don't like...it can be done...believe me.

Great performers aren't constantly looking at the scoreboard, they are so present in the performance time seems to slows down for them. And not being attached to an outcome allows them to pay attention to every move. Great performance in business and great performance in sports are closely linked.

So how do you go about improving your focus, mental abilities andoverallperformance to stay motivated?

As you guessed it, health is one of the factors. There are certain foods that give you the right about of energy for high performance. Sound mind and sound body are one and the same. Exercise is major, exercise allows you to reduce stress and reach a level of mental alertness that no drug like speed and cocaine will get you to. How you breathe is major. In the book,Mentally Tough, the author gives an example with how effective breathing is: they did a study of two groups of people, slow deep breathers and shallow quick breathers and found no difference in oxygen needs but found a difference in personalities. The people in the study who breathed slow and deep where described as adventurous, confident, self reliant and relaxed. The quick short breathers were classified as insecure,nervousand generally unhappy. This is not new, it's been known for thousands of years. Your brain needs oxygen to properly function. Also, how you see yourself in your mind's eye. Ever imagine something bad happening and then a few days later you got that Dj Vu feeling as you watched it happen? Anything imagined really clearly is almost the same as actually experiencing something. Mentalrehearsalis powerful because you know how it's suppose to look like before it happens, so yoursubconsciousmind has a focal point.

I'm going to post more details on this blog but if you really want to learn more, read this book calledMentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business. One of the BEST books I've ever read on business performance and I HIGHLY recommend you read it.

Stay great friends!!!

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