Create Your Own Instant Motivation
Here’s an incredibly simple exercise you can use, ANYTIME YOU LIKE, to get
yourself to follow through on just about anything.
If you’ve made a commitment to do something, then you probably have good
reasons for making that promise to yourself. To create the motivation you need to
make yourself take action, all you have to do is remember why you made the
commitment.
OK, I know what you’re thinking…
“Yeah, I promised I’d do my eye exercises
because I want to see without lenses – I remember fine, but I still ‘forget’ to do my
exercises, or I ‘bunk off’ when I know I shouldn’t”
The thing is, you may ‘theoretically’ know you’re supposed to do your exercises,
and why you ‘should’ do them, but that doesn’t create motivation.
To get motivation, you have to emotionally
feel
the reasons. You have to create
enough emotional juice to turn the ‘
should
’ do my exercises, into ‘
MUST
’ do my
exercises.
It’s really not that difficult, here’s an example.
Q: Why do you want to do your eye exercises?
A: Because I want to see better.
(no emotional juice there – let’s try again)
Q: OK, if you could see better, how would that improve your life?
A: If I could see better, then I wouldn’t need to wear glasses to read
(hmmm, again not much juice – try again)
A: If I could see better, I’d be able to wake up in the morning and see the beautiful
face of my partner lying on the pillow beside me, rather than a fuzzy blur.