They come out on stage. There's music playing and a big screen in the background. They've got a headset mike on and they are all pumped up and yelling at the crowd. In fact I know of one speaker who comes out, asks everyone how they are doing today, and then has them repeat it over and over again until they are yelling it at the top of their lungs. Talk about an annoying pattern interrupt. The only problem is that that sh*t doesn't work on me. If I don't feel like yelling there's nothing you can do to me to make me do it and the more you try the more I think about choking you out.
Not only that but this type of Motivation only lasts so long. How many of you out there have ever had the experience where you felt great at a particular seminar? You were pumped...you were certain you were going to change your life. Maybe you felt that way for a couple of days...maybe even weeks....
BUT...
Eventually...
You went back to just feeling the way you normally feel day in and day out and nothing changed for you. I've heard this story over and over again from seminar attendees. Granted there are those people out there who naturally have high energy and bounce off the walls accomplishing everything under the sun and then some. Then there's the rest of us. It can take a lot of effort that most of us simply don't have.
Don't get me wrong...you CAN train yourself to be motivated and you CAN create certain states for yourself that you can use whenever you want and I do do that, but...the point is not to have those states NECESSARY in order to create change for yourself. Read on...
So...knowing all of this I realized that I have a challenge ahead of me. The first challenge is that I'm naturally lazy. Add the stubbornness on top of that and you get the idea. I don't like to HAVE to do anything...so the thought of HAVING to GET MOTIVATED to accomplish my goals doesn't sit well.
Yet, I am getting into an industry that most people associate with these yahoo feel good Motivationally Soaked Evangelists. How am I going to fake being pumped and get people MOTIVATED if I'm unwilling to do it myself?
Well luckily for me I tend to listen to the voices in my head (sometimes) and they all seem to agree...
Motivation is for PUSSIES!
End of story. I mean when you really think about it Motivation is just a word. It doesn't even exist. It is a concept that we have invented to define certain states of being which may or may not translate into certain behaviors taking place. On top of that, we as human beings have made a fatal error when it comes to Motivation...
We overwhelmingly believe that things will change for us if we just BECOME MOTIVATED like that successful guy we heard at the McSuccess Seminar. He is the Alpha and the rest of us are just flock until we GET MOTIVATED.
In fact...if we have sufficient Motivation AND get a Millionaire Brain THEN life will be a piece of cake and WE TOO can MOTIVATE others while gold nuggets shoot out of our ass!
So I starting thinking more about it...is that what I really want for myself? (I have to admit the nuggets thing would be a nifty trick).
I mean...I enjoy giving people the FEELING of Motivation and I do like Money BUT I don't want to work that hard. My systems are about FREEDOM and that FREEDOM comes through making simple realistic choices THAT WORK.
The simple fact is that the world changes all the time on its own. Does the WORLD NEED MOTIVATION to change? Does the sun need Motivation to burn albinos? No...it just does it naturally the way it was designed to, and we can too!
The point is to do things easily without thinking about them. Without stressing about them. Without worrying about what friends, family, co-workers, government, religious leaders or even yourself will think about you if you fail at said things.
The REAL trick here is to just simply do the things that will bring about the change we desire and do them unconsciously with no attachment to the outcome unless we should so choose. It'd be like taking a magic pill and just waking up one day and doing the right things with no thought added to them...just like brushing your teeth. Think about it...how Motivated do you NEED to be to brush your teeth?
Now that I think about it perhaps some of you COULD benefit from a little Motivation. For the rest of you this is my suggestion...
Realize that everyone who NEEDS Motivation is coming from a state of lack because they are not doing the things that they KNOW to do to get their results. You either have Motivation at the moment or you don't. Motivation is a state that we have all experienced in one form or another at one time or another. Some of us can maintain that state easily and some of us have a harder time at it. When Motivation goes away so too do the behaviors associated with it. By all means, when it comes take advantage of it...BUT don't make it the thing you need to take action.
In reality we usually GET MOTIVATED AFTER we've taken the actions we needed to take instead of before.
So instead of linking whatever behaviors that will more likely bring about the things that you desire, to a fleeting state...link them to something that occurs naturally..Like Breathing! This is the whole premise of the Fast Food Effect...Utilization.
How do you do this?
Come to my seminars and buy my products of course...what a shameless plug! No Seriously...
Sometimes all it takes is just to change the way you THINK about the things you already know you should be doing but don't because you THINK you lack the Motivation.
Stop and consider what it would be like if you just did the things you needed to do without thought...it would be a bit like being in a Magical Spell wouldn't it.
One day you will just wake up and suddenly you would be surrounded by all the things you once wanted.
And Motivation would be that thing that other people would assume you had...wouldn't it!
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