It’s almost 4 weeks into your New Year. How is your progress towards your goals, desires and intentions?
Are you moving closer to or farther away from them? How are you doing with your acknowledgment logs? Are you using any of the other tools. How are they working for you?
When people are excited about their new goals their energy level rises and they become extremely motivated.
When you commit to these goals, you gain focus, new ideas come to you more easily and you can't keep your mind off of your goals and intentions.
Then what happens?
Some people seem to attract success, power, wealth, accomplishments with what appears to be very little effort; others conquer their life with great difficulty; still others fail altogether to reach their ambitions, desires and ideals. Why is that?
Many people read books, take courses, attend lectures all their lives without ever making progress in attaining what they say they want and desire in life. Why is that?
Some of it can be identified in how you are motivated, and other answers are found in what stops you.
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis reports that people are either motivated by pain or pleasure.
In other words, either you are more determined to move away from your pain, or you are motivated to move toward pleasure. When you understand your personal motivation, you can work with it.
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
If you do that, you're in control of your life.
If you don't, life controls you."
~ Anthony Robbins ~
If you do that, you're in control of your life.
If you don't, life controls you."
~ Anthony Robbins ~
Think about this for yourself. What really motivates you?
Do you have to get really unhappy with the way your life is in order for you to make changes?
Do you have to be really angry at someone before you tell them how you feel?
Do you have to have serious bodily pain before you go to the doctor or massage therapist? This is motivation by pain.
Do you go to the dentist on schedule and practice preventive maintenance on your teeth?
Do you take your car in for service according to factory recommendations to keep it humming smoothly?
Do you browse the catalogs for thing you might like to have? This is motivation by pleasure.
Click here for PAIN vs PLEASURE chart showing a comparison of pleasure vs pain motivators.
Many people possess more discipline and commitment ability than they give themselves credit for. (More....)
Having the right goals makes a difference.
Once you have identified your primary motivator, you can continue with your same behaviors or take mindful control to make changes.
IF money was not a consideration because all your financial needs were met,
and there were no time or space limitations,
and you didn't need to ask permission from anyone,
and no one would stop you,
then......
what would you being doing as a career?
what would you be doing for yourself?
what would you be doing for others?
Remember to ask yourself "Is that the Truth?"
Are you doing any of this now?
What can you do to add even the smallest part of this to your life today?
Pleasure is usually an easy motivator to identify. Some of the pain motivators may be more elusive.
Click on each title for more information and resources:
Worthiness
You were born a winner; Why not You?
Fear
Fear of success.
Past Wounds
Defining yourself
Grudges, Resentments, Judgments
Its impact on your success.
