Can't Get Motivated? Try This

Can't get motivated?

Try this.

First, understand where most people get it wrong.

They think…

1. Once I feel motivated then I’ll start.

2. I’ll then be able to throw myself into the work

3. Then I’ll see results and keep going

4. Then success

If you’re struggling to feel motivated you might have confused feelings and outcomes.

If you have ever told your kids to tidy their room and they say ‘But I don’t feel like it today’

What is the universal parental response?

‘I don’t care what you feel like, just do it.’

To get stuff done we have to break the crippling connection between our emotions and the outcome we want.

Try this instead.

1. Start with discipline which is simply doing tasks without emotion

2. Keep doing this until you see the first small results

3. Motivation kicks in here.

4. and this is the kicker, motivation is an anaesthetic for more hard work

so now the cycle repeats.

Motivation is an output, not an input. So stop looking for it in the wrong place.

Instead, do a lot of small things you don’t want to do and you’ll be doing the big things you want to do.

Got any motivation hacks you use?

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If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

-free-range kid to army sniper,

-wannabe photojournalist to winning national video awards

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change and I know how to make it simple so you can do it too.

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