Boost Your Motivation Levels

Boost Your Motivation Levels

Understand Your Style of Motivation
A billionaire may have become rich because he didn't want to be poor.
Another billionaire could have become rich because he wanted to buy a
bigger house or so that he could enjoy a more affluent life style.

What's all that about? Some people become motivated because they want
to get closer to something (the "towards" motivation style) while
others become motivated because they want to move away from something
(the "away" motivation style). The first man wanted to avoid poverty
and so he was motivated to become rich, while the second man was
motivated because he wanted to live more comfortably.

If you want to motivate yourself, you should first determine your
motivation style. Is it running away from what you don't want, or is
it moving towards what you want. Note that you could have a different
motivation style in different areas of life. For example, you may be
motivated to follow a healthy life style because you want to live
longer and at the same time you may be exercising because of not
wanting to become skinny.

The Problem with the "Away from" Motivation Style
Let's assume that you are motivated to exercise because you don't want
to become too skinny. In this case you won't be that motivated unless
you start to lose a lot weight or until you receive a critical comment
about your physical appearance.

The result will be staying at the status quo; you won't try to improve
yourself, instead you will just try to prevent yourself from losing
ground. As you may have already guessed, this strategy will not result
in any advancements after a certain point is reached, but it will help
you not lose what you've already achieved.

On the other hand, if you exercise because you want to bulk up, your
greed will take over and you will find yourself wanting to get bigger
and bigger muscles even if you were already in great shape. In this
case, greed is not that undesirable. Smiling

Changing Your Motivation Style
Now that we've agreed that the "towards motivation style" is better
than the "away from motivation style", how can we change our
motivation style?

Suppose your goal was to avoid poverty (to become rich). In this case,
instead of looking at how much you spend per month, or instead of
focusing on your monthly bills, just draw a picture of your dream
house and your dream car and hang a copy of the picture in each room
in your house.

Motivation and Goal Setting
If you don't have any goals, then don't bother reading about
motivation. Motivation is needed only for those who really want
something out of life. If you have no goals, you should first visit
the goal setting section then come back to the motivation section when
you are done with determining what you want to achieve.

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