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
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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