Let me ask you a question, how many times have you got inspired to do something and had so much energy and a kind of "Spark" and you were really happy about what that thing was going to give you as an outcome? One really good example that comes to mind is first finding this program and feeling as though you just can't wait for the time when you can just feel sooo AMAZING and ON TOP OF THE WORLD AGAIN!!! Or You join the gym for the first time and you have a clear and very powerful image of how much better your life will become, how great you'll feel about the nice sculpted body you'll create for yourself and how you'll get so much more attention and so many more compliments and wow you'll have people lining up just to have the chance to be recognized by you.
Now after a short while (a few hours, a couple of days, possibly a few weeks or maybe even a few months), you lose your motivation, you lose that spark, all the efforts you put towards this goal just feel overwhelming, you feel as if you're getting nowhere and eventually you quit going after that goal. Does this sound familiar to anyone? How many of you can relate to this?
So what is it that we loose in the process? We were soooo motivated and driven and then it just vanishes? The spark, that passion and inspiration just vanishes. Why?
Well, I've had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about this and to see the reason not just in my own experience but with other people as well and I want to share this with you guys. What it is that we've lost is the Why. In the beginning we are soooo focused on the purpose of what it is we are planning to do, we have a powerful image of how it's going to benefit us, how that will improve our lives, how it'll make us feel when we achieve it, and we may have gotten very certain of the results from seeing others achieve them and this is what we want! The problem that keeps coming up is that as we ACT towards our GOALS, we start FOCUSING less and less on what IT WILL GIVE US and we start FOCUSING more and more on what it is we NEED TO DO.
Which do you believe will make you feel more motivated, the goal and the positive benefits or, the to do list? If you've fallen into this trap before, that's alright. You are only human and it is only reasonable to become disempowered and overwhelmed when you focus on what you need to do. If you focused 80% of your attention on the things you needed to do with some of your hobbies, do you think you'd be motivated or overwheling?
So the key to breaking this is find a variety (as many ways as possible) of diffrent ways to keep the goal in mind and switch them up. Draw pictures of the outcome, spend some time reading up about diffrent people and how they achieve the results you're looking for, write about it, visualize it while you are in a nice relaxing setting (like a sauna), tell other people about what it is you want to achieve, make colages, write short stories, make a skit on video, make an audio skit, pin up pictures of people who have already achieved the goal. If you start to feel bored with a particular method then it is obviously time to switch to another one.
We all have unlimited potential, used correctly we can achieve anything.
I hope this helps you guys and I would really like to hear from you guys.
Mike
