Reducing Your Motivational Drag Coefficient
Reducing Your Motivational Drag Coefficient
What Is Your Motivational Drag?
While doing triathlons you learn many things that apply to developing your Motivational Intelligence. One thing that you are constantly attuned to as you swim and bicycle is the concept of drag. Car, plane, and boat designers use the calculation of a drag coefficient to express the amount of friction created by the vehicle through the air, or water, due to its aerodynamics. This, of course, impacts both the smoothness and stability of the ride and the amount of power needed to push the vehicle forward.
Things that drag you down physically also drag you down motivationally and they impact your ability to achieve! As you swim in a triathlon, there is an enormous amount of the technique that is involved in minimizing drag. To give you an example, if you let your legs sink down into the water behind as you swim, you will end up plowing through the water, rather than piercing through it like a knife - the differences in drag can be substantial. Propelling your body in a triathlon and propelling yourself through life are hard work enough without added drag.
Amongst other things, Motivational Intelligence involves deliberately and intuitively reducing motivational drag and using your motivation efficiently to earn the life you want.
I believe your innate Motivational Intelligence or "MIQ" can be developed into the most powerful force for increasing meaningfulness, happiness, and positive change in your life.
Motivational drag exacts a heavy toll. Regardless of how driven and capable you are, you still must rely on the physicality of your body and mind. When you have not slept well, are strung out on caffeine, depleted from repeated sugar highs, dehydrated, or chronically tense for lack of stress-reducing exercise, you start experiencing motivational drag - drag on your motivation, drag on your alertness, and drag on your ability to face and adapt to new challenges. I don't think you will be surprised to learn that drag on each of these serves to further undermine your motivation. It is important to attune yourself to how less-than-optimal-care of your physical body places a drag on your motivation, especially if you are trying to focus on things that are difficult or unpleasant for you.
Imagine if you will, two equally powerful and motivated cyclists, with one of them riding a finely tuned machine and the other riding on a less than ideally inflated tire, rusty gears, and a seat that is too low to get the maximum power out of his or her legs. Both riders are working equally hard, and yet one is steadily falling behind.
It isn't hard to understand why a person might try to compensate by pedaling harder. But, with the additional friction, would become fatigued more quickly and, as a result, feel less optimistic and lose hope of success. These domino effects can happen to you and me, as we pursue our goals, in a whole variety of ways - everyday!
Your physical body influences your energy, the way you see and interpret the world and your emotional and motivational resilience. Do yourself and others a favor. Reduce the costly motivational drags in your life that keep you from being all that you can be!
What creates a drag on your motivation? What tires you out without sufficient benefit, uses up your resources, takes away from your interests, and thus, subtly or powerfully, undermines your motivation? Make a list of these things and determine which of them aren't worth the motivational cost and the corresponding loss in passion and achievement in your life.
What would it take to change a couple of them? It might be worth it to moderate certain indulgent pleasures that tear your body down, eliminate certain activities, or take actions to prevent bodily neglect in return for more enjoyably motivating and rewarding days!
What could you achieve if you were more motivated and inspired?
Blair Relf, Ph.D.is the leading expert inMotivational Intelligence - using it to dramatically improve performance. Dr. Relf's web site at http://www.MotivationalIQ.com provides many free tools including interactive assessments that map out your motivational life in color, engaging MP3's that help you increase your achievements, and an enlighteningMotivational Intelligence special report. He works closely with people in highly affordable programs using dynamic groups, virtual technologies and innovative approaches to help achieve goals, break through barriers and take lives to an entirely new level.
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