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Forget about motivation entirely.
It doesn’t work.
It’s largely a scam created to sell seminar tickets and temporarily inflate people’s state in much the same way a drug does.
Relying on motivation is a surefire recipe for failure.
So what should you do instead?
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It doesn’t work.
It’s largely a scam created to sell seminar tickets and temporarily inflate people’s state in much the same way a drug does.
Relying on motivation is a surefire recipe for failure.
So what should you do instead?
A thread...
1. Create Consequences for Inaction
We don't pursue our biggest goals because there’s no consequence for inaction.
The world won’t end if you don’t start that business, lose the weight.
And when there is no PAIN to push us towards action, we tend to stay where we are.
We don't pursue our biggest goals because there’s no consequence for inaction.
The world won’t end if you don’t start that business, lose the weight.
And when there is no PAIN to push us towards action, we tend to stay where we are.
2. Get Accountable to Someone You Respect
To achieve our biggest goals, we don’t need motivation, we need accountability
Most of us don’t value ourselves enough to be able to stay disciplined over the long haul
Without an outside force pushing, we backslide into our old habits
To achieve our biggest goals, we don’t need motivation, we need accountability
Most of us don’t value ourselves enough to be able to stay disciplined over the long haul
Without an outside force pushing, we backslide into our old habits
3. Use Systems to Automate Good Habits
If you want to start a new habit, then you need to limit the amount of effort required to perform that habit.
Find ways to make sticking to habits easier and you’ll be more likely to actually implement them.
If you want to start a new habit, then you need to limit the amount of effort required to perform that habit.
Find ways to make sticking to habits easier and you’ll be more likely to actually implement them.
4. Create a Personal List of Rules that You Will Live By
When you set hard and fast rules for yourself about what you WILL and WILL NOT do (make it reasonable but challenging), you make your life infinitely easier.
When you set hard and fast rules for yourself about what you WILL and WILL NOT do (make it reasonable but challenging), you make your life infinitely easier.
5. Remove Barriers Standing Between You and Your Goals
Your environment can help your goals as much as it can hurt them.
Instead of relying on willpower, remove the temptation entirely.
- Throw out all of your sugary foods.
- Donate your television.
- Block the internet
Your environment can help your goals as much as it can hurt them.
Instead of relying on willpower, remove the temptation entirely.
- Throw out all of your sugary foods.
- Donate your television.
- Block the internet
