MOTIVATION
Why do most people fail whenever they set out to make a change?
Why do very few people follow through on their New Year’s Resolutions?
Why is it, that even when we know what to do, we often just don’t DO IT??
Well, for most people, the answer lies with motivation.
Most people are governed by their emotions. In fact, to one extent or
another, we ALL ARE! When we feel good (motivated), we do
things without needing to be pushed, reminded, cajoled, bribed…
However, when we feel bad (demotivated), we tend to ‘forget’ what we previously
promised ourselves we would do.
Some people have the ability to follow through, no matter how they feel, and it is
usually these people who enjoy the most ‘success’ in life. They have developed a
muscle in their brain, that literally powers through their emotional state, and pushes
them to do whatever it is they said they would do.
For these people, a commitment is:
“doing the thing I said I would do, long after
the mood I said it in has left me”
For the rest of us, a commitment is too often:
“if I feel like it, then I’ll do what I
promised!”
Has that ever happened to you? It happens to me all the time. At times like this, I
need to create my own ‘carrot and stick’, to get me to take action and follow
through, and it’s actually a lot easier than you think.