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Category: Action
You Lack Discipline Not Motivation
If you are not achieving your goals, reread the title of this post six times. Motivation is a feeling and often it is fleeting. People might say that they feel motivated or didn’t feel motivated. Even those with a big Why to do something can feel unmotivated at times.
What you really need to build is some discipline in your life. This means that even when you lack motivation, don’t feel like it or want to take a break, your discipline will kick in and you’ll do it.
Few people would want to leave their comfy, warm, dry bed at 05:40am to go for a 10km run in the dark, cold and wet. If you leave the option to motivation, you might just give it a pass and go back to sleep. However, if you’ve developed discipline, that habit of doing things you’ve committed to will happen.
Discipline does not require ‘feeling like it’. Discipline means you push through despite not feeling like it.
Plan what you need to do and use your discipline to carry you through.
If you are not achieving, you lack discipline not motivation.
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Who Sets Your Pace?
What tempo do you move at? Are you getting things done like a person possessed or are you chilling like there is all the time in the world?
Once again, this can be heavily influenced by the 5 people you spend the most time with. If you are working with people who are action takers and getting things done quickly, you’ll probably start doing the same. If you are surrounded by people who sit on the park bench watching the world go by, you’ll probably find yourself there ever more frequently.
And if you think you have no further capacity to do more, you may be wrong. Consider Roger Bannister who came fourth in the Olympics in 1952 for the 1500 meters. Then, using top pacers in 1954, he became the first person to break the 4 minute mile at 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.
Who sets your pace?
*(Thank you Ski for the topic in our Clubhouse room Monday)
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Change Yourself First
Then you can change the world. If we all tried to be better people individually, we would be better as a group through natural consequence.
If you’re trying to change someone, you’re unlikely to do it. Only the subject person will make the change happen. Berating someone or belittling them won’t do it. It often has the opposite effect. You can lead a horse to water…. Even make it look nice and dress it up. But you can’t force someone, or a horse, to take a sip.
Change yourself first. And if you have time left on the clock, then help others. Rather than force them.
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Gather Intensity
Bring your energy, like a laser, to focus on your most pressing issue or task. Get psyched up with power words and prepare to address the matter at hand. Gather intensity and build the expectation that the task is already done. Charge forward, relentlessly and even tirelessly, to accomplish those tasks and achieve your goal.
It feels incredible when you attack the day.
Gather intensity and win!
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Use Affirmations Frequently
Yes you might feel uncomfortable doing this. You might even cringe a little just thinking about it. But really, you probably do negative affirmations all the time. You might say, ‘I am so stupid’, ‘I am an idiot’ or even ‘I am terrible with money’.
Think about that. You are willing to say pretty rough stuff to yourself but cringe when thinking about saying something nice. And the nice stuff is probably more accurate on the whole too!
Try saying, ‘I am a very good person’ or ‘I am pretty fit’ or even, ‘I am quite good with several financial aspects’.
Those aren’t so cringeworthy. They are simply stating how it is, fairly accurately.
So think of 5-10 ‘I am’ phrases you’re comfortable saying and start saying them to yourself every 30 minutes. Brainwash yourself. Love bomb yourself. And don’t just say them. Feel them when you say them. Stand straight and tall. Smile. Be proud of who you are in the moment.
After a few weeks of half-hourly affirmations, you’ll have convinced yourself about how good you really are. Then you are on your way to being Unstoppable. You will be able to achieve anything.
Use affirmations frequently.
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Do A Great Job!
Yes it takes longer to do things very well. But it is worth doing things to a high standard. Take the extra time. You’ll find it worthwhile.
Do a great job!
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You Win just Trying
Trying, practicing and training all require effort. It is these efforts that turn you into a winner; a person who wins. You won’t always have a bestseller, blockbuster or championship trophy but you will have developed the discipline, focus and confidence to try it again.
You win as a person each time you put effort in and try. Love the process.
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Move Heaven and Earth
Sometimes you need to do way more than put the work in. You may even have to go a little crazy. Work 16 hour days. Make the calls you are not looking forward to. Pretend they say yes though. Imagine that. Now call them.
Move Heaven and Earth for your dreams. It’s possible and worth it.
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