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Why You Can’t-Wait For Motivation

Motivation is a fickle entity. When you have it you have days of endless energy at your disposal and when it’s gone it’s the complete opposite.

Achieving motivation is crucial for anything to be achieved with the right mindset. But why is it so dam hard to replicate?

I was never taught the winning formula of how to achieve motivation. I suspect many people don’t know themselves if you asked them. But without a doubt, motivation is important and you will find countless stories of what motivation can do to change peoples lives.

So we know clearly in all our lives that motivation is important because every time we have achieved anything important or done anything we have found interesting we have been motivated to do it.

So how do we get motivated? Do we wait patiently for it to come our way? Without being conscious of doing it I’m sure we have all been suspect of waiting around for something to happen. I know I have. Persuading myself that I will be motivated later while I procrastinate in my short term motivation.

When it comes to motivation the harder and challenging the task is the slower the motivation will come your way.

Planning Creates Action

That’s why to achieve a motivation state for any challenging task that’s worthwhile you have to plan for it and foremost make it easy.

Now motivation is like playing games, going surfing or anything that you just enjoy doing. It’s going to come easier for you. I have never had to plan to watch a football match or play on my PS4 but I had to plan to complete my degree and I had to plan to write this article today. The reason why is that comfortability is a natural feeling. It’s a feeling of safety but anything challenging is a serious threat to comfortability and makes us enter the uncomfortable zone. This zone is where we need to be to progress at anything in our life that’s worthwhile but expecting to be logical and be readily motivated to do it is another story.

Plan For It To Be Easy

This goal then is to make everything you do easy to start. There can be no friction of difficulty as the chances of you doing it in percentage terms goes further down the harder the task gets.

That’s why planning your route and how you start is so important to unlocking motivation straight away.

For example, when it comes to completing my assignments or writing this article I plan to start easy. I plan to write 500 words a day. For me, that is an easy amount to get started but also worthwhile to complete. But when I first started it was 200 words a day to get me started.

Another example is when I have to do strength training. I plan to start easy by saying I will just do 10 minutes.

When it comes to planning for yourself it has to be easy for you and that’s different for everybody.

Once the plan is made easy it’s time to take action!!

Action Creates Motivation

Once you have planned the route you want to take. The next step is to take action. Action is the magic formula and most important to achieve motivation. Without action, there is no motivation. That’s why it’s important to have a simple formula to take action whenever you can.

The best way to take action is to just start. With the mind predicting every pain and downfall you can have. It’s still in the pit lane doing nothing but when you take action you are out on the track making things happen.

Action is the biggest hurdle to anyone happiness and success. It’s the hardest part because it takes effort but it’s also the most rewarding because it offers up results.

The Hurdle To Taking Action

The biggest hurdle to taking action is procrastination. The moment when you start lying to yourself that your future self will do it later.

Imagining a more disciplined and overall better person will make better decisions. This is all false and an illusion your mind tricks you into believing. The reason being the person you are tomorrow is going to be the same person thinking the same thoughts of putting it off.

The only way you can change your situation is by taking action immediately. When you can make it a habit to take action quickly all the time in your life. You will start to see amazing returns.

The skill to just get started makes things happen.

The best way to do this is to make starting easy and fun.

The opposite and what most people tend to think for example going to the gym is the traffic they will be in to get there and how hard it will be. The chances of you taking action to go are questionable for a lot of people with gym memberships.

But when you make the journey a time of listening to your favourite songs and podcasts as well as saying I’m just going to do 10 minutes and give my best. Well, that tricks the mind into thinking this is easy and fun and very comfortable.

9/10 times when you are into your workout and have all the chemicals released makes you want to carry on and do the hours workout.

Planning to get to the starting blocks is one thing but taking action to get there and just start is the hardest but most rewarding aspect to gain motivation.

Discipline Maintains Motivation

Planning and taking action when you start something new is quite easy. The new job, the new partner or the new training schedule are all exciting when they’re in their infancy. But what makes motivation last is discipline.

Discipline is the secret sauce that brings to life the person you want to become. It’s all good doing something for a day but doing it 365 days in a row is challenging. Some days will wake not feeling our best but when we disciplined to execute the plan with action you will feel accomplishment in our life. Along the way motivation will keep popping up like a long lost friend who you pick up where you left off.

There are so many things in my life where I a not motivated to do at the moment but when I follow through I actually enjoy the thing I didn’t want to do.

That’s why we should never rely just on our emotions in the moment because they don’t always tell the correct story.

How To Make It A Habit

Motivation You Have To Create It by taking action

To make this a habit you have to want to make it a habit and follow this simple system of;

Planning for it to be easy.

Make taking action easy and fun.

Be disciplined to do it when you don’t want to.

To be able to achieve all the things you want in life takes time. There is no magic wand that creates it. The mind has a powerful role to play and being self-aware to plan take action and be disciplined with your habits. You wistart to see the goals you set out to achieve, be achieved. That’s satifing because all we want to do in life is achieve the things we set out to do.

This helps to never live a life of major regret for not trying.

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Fighting Inflammation

In today’s article, we will discuss how exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly. I have faced my own battles with inflammation as I have aged. It affects millions of people throughout the world, with 3 out of 5 people dying from chronic inflammation every year.

This can lead to many underlining negative effects on the body and mind as you grow older.

For example, it can lead to stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disorders, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. This is definitely a worldwide problem we have to fix. Amazingly new studies have backed up the effects exercise can have at preventing chronic inflammation from life-threatening diseases. Especially as we age this should be something you take seriously.

What is inflammation?

How exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly

In simple terms, inflammation is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection, injury, or disease. It’s broken down into two forms either acute or chronic inflammation where your immune system dispatches an army of white blood cells to heal the affected areas.

Why Is Inflammation Bad?

Well, there is a good side to inflammation when our bodies need to fight off injuries and decease but there is a dark side to inflammation which can happen from our diet and lack of mobility. If this isn’t taking seriously. Lack of action can lead to heart disease, strokes, cancer even affecting brain function. The one I was most interested in was acid reflux and how I prevent this from being a normal part of my life.

How Exercise Has Proven To Help You Fight Inflammation Quickly

In the latest study researchers have shown in the laboratory how we can ward off chronic inflammation through exercise. They engineered human muscles that were grown in a petri dish. Then they inundated the muscles with high levels of interferon-gamma for seven days to mimic the effects of a long-lasting chronic inflammation. The results showed that when muscles were developed through exercise. It could fight chronic inflammation while not overstressing the cells.

This is amazing news for anyone suffering from chronic inflammation as our health is important for our mental well-being. The discovery also shows that it works as effectively as drugs that help with rheumatoid arthritis and baricitinib.My own experience of having acid reflux.

Exercising had a dramatic impact on quieting down this inflammation. In a matter of weeks by exercising I was losing weight around my gut but also building muscle in my legs and upper body. My diet slightly changed but not enough to warrant the cause of my inflammation to drop.

How Does Inflammation Affect The Brain?

There have been many studies that derived the conclusion of the effects inflammatory diseases can have on the brain. Neurologist David Perlmutter, MD states that “inflammation fuelled by increased blood sugar, can damage the tissue in our brains and put us at higher risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.”

Dr Robert J. Hedaya MD also states “Inflammation affects hormones and other neurotransmitters in your brain. Inflammation drives down the level of serotonin, which can lead to feelings of depression or anxiety, and problems with memory. It prevents melatonin from being produced, which causes insomnia.

It causes dopamine levels to rise, which contributes to insomnia, and feelings of anxiety.” This is a major concern to us all if our exercise and diet are not where they should be. The long term effects as we age can have dramatic effects on how we live in the second half of our life.

What You Can Do Today

The research and my experience show exercising on an aerobic level can have major benefits overall. Whether that be getting outside in nature by brisk walking, running or cycling. It can even be inside by having a cycling machine. Whatever you choose exercising and building muscle will help you overcome the long-lasting inflammation that affects your daily life.

Also reviewing your habits like diet, smoking etc. Of how much that affects your health can also help. For me, anything chocolate, saturated fats, pretty much all the unhealthy foods flared up my acid reflux inflammation. So take into account what sets your inflammation off as well.

Final Thoughts

I hope you gained some great insight from today’s article – How exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly.

It goes to show keeping our bodies active and healthy can go a long way to fighting off bad inflammation. The importance of this can be attributed to long term health and the age we live. But it can also help with our brain function and not letting it affect the impacts of depression and anxiety.

The studies I have read have shown there is hope and a lot of it is in our control. So I leave it in your hands to decide to take action. But know at Future Mindset we are behind you rooting for you to make the changes form a healthy body but something we all need is a healthy mind.

Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.