People might hate\nthis post, because it isn\u2019t all love and light, filled with new age\npositivity and upbeat sayings. Well, then, they just shouldn\u2019t read\nit. Before you think I\u2019m going to write something to demotivate\nyou, you have it entirely wrong, if this doesn\u2019t spur you into\naction working towards your goals nothing will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSometimes people\nsit for years, knowing what they need to do, but never having the\nmotivation to go do it. It seems like too much work to make\nchanges, to get off your butt and actually do things differently,\nwhether it is starting that business, or taking charge of your\nhealth, these goals seem to elude you, like, I should start that\nbusiness, but I\u2019m afraid to talk to people, or you know, I do need\nto lose weight, but I don\u2019t really want to change my eating habits.\n Frequently these things get put on the back burner and then never\nget done, not because the goal doesn\u2019t sound good, not even because\nthe needed changes are so hard. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThe main reason\nthese changes are hard is because you just aren’t sufficiently\nmotivated, you think, oh yeah, I\u2019m motivated, but its like the\nstatus quo takes over, and you get right back to doing what you used\nto do, because it feels comfortable, even when it is isn\u2019t fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tI will give you a\nterrifying example. My mom used to be over 200lb. She was like, I\u2019m\nfat, and that is how I am going to be. She got rid of all her thin\nclothing and just bought clothing for her new fat size. She went to\nwork, and over ate a lot of garbage food, including entire bags of\npotato chips, heaping bowls of spaghetti, and entire quarts of\nice-cream in one sitting. She used to work out, but with her\nunethical job, she didn\u2019t really have time to exercise. Besides,\nthe gym where she had gotten membership was way over crowded. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThen she started\nfeeling real sick. She didn\u2019t know what it was, and then she went\nto the doctor. The doctor told her that she had something called\ndiabetes type 2. She found out about all the awful potential effects\nof this disease, including going blind, and having to have feet\namputated because of the inability to heal wounds due to high blood\nsugar. She was terrified. She decided that she cared more about her\neyes and feet rather than just sticking to the status quo of being\nfat, so she made serious changes. She started working out everyday\nand bringing her lunch to work instead of buying whatever they had in\nthe cafeteria. She lost a lot of weight and kept her blood sugar\nunder control. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThe point is, the\nhorrifying scenario of losing her eyes and feet prompted her to\nfinally do something towards her goals and achieve them, instead of\njust sitting there, knowing what she needed to to, but not doing it. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSo, how can this\nknowledge of bad things that could happen if you don\u2019t achieve your\ngoals work for you. What if it seems like the goals you have, if you\ndon\u2019t achieve them, won\u2019t result in anything bad happening, that\nthey just seem like self improvement goals, rather than dire, I might\nlose body parts or my house type of goals. Well, its very simple. \nYou don\u2019t just make up these goals because you think that you\nshould make up goals, you make up goals for very specific reasons,\nand if you do want to achieve them, then sometimes a little future\nthinking will help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSay today you want\nto start a business, but feel overwhelmed by all that you need to do,\nthe various sub goals, etc. Sometimes, you might need to look five,\nten twenty years down the road. Ask your self hard questions, like\nwhat could happen if I don\u2019t start my business. Take a long look\ndown the road, right even up to your deathbed if that is what it\ntakes, or even after that. Actually consider worst case scenarios in\nyour mind, including joblessness and homelessness, and a sense of\nregret about what you could have done with your life, but failed to\ndo because you were afraid to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tNow, keep that\nscary image in your mind, and whenever you feel like slacking off,\nsay, eating one more doughnut, not going to the gym, or not making\nthat sales call, just recall the scary scenario, and then do it. The\nterror will keep you moving forward, because otherwise, you could\njust stagnate and that horrible thing you imagine could actually come\nto pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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