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July 29th, 2010

Where It Begins

Consider for a moment the essence of your beginning… no I am not talking about a physical act.  I am talking about you and your beginning and how infinitely small you were.  In fact you were smaller than a few molecules and yet there you were absolutely complete in everything you are and everything you would be.

At that instant your gender and color of hair shape of your eyes and tone of your skin was all there in its own completeness… all there at that very moment of your beginning. All that you are… all your genes…  and all that you would be was all contained within that protoplasm of your makeup.

Can you imagine such an implausible miracle?  And yet here we are today from that smallest of beginnings. Now if as infinitely small as we were then and if we somehow seem to conquer all of the massiveness around us and be born and to grow to become adults as we are now, how could we question conquering any desire put before us.  What could possibly be too great for us to accomplish assuming we use correct goal setting procedures.

What are you trying to do?  What is stopping you?  What would it take to overcome the obstacle?  What would we gain if we win?  Is it worth it?

If we can but fully answer the above questions and then add some rocket power, nothing can stop us.

My strongest recommendation is to read the following articles.

Behavior Motivation

5 Steps To Change Any Habit

Adding Rocket Power to Goal Setting

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April 17th, 2010

Adding Rocket Power

In Behavior Motivation – 5 Steps to Change Any Habit, you learned a 5-step system to change any habit and begin the process for finding motivation. Now you will learn how to add rocket power to behavior motivation and accomplishing anything you want.

Nothing can propel your efforts as much or guarantee the outcome of your efforts as well as the two concepts Affirmations and Visualization.

Affirmations

Affirmations are positive statements of fact as you intend them to be.  If you really want to find motivation, create affirmations.

Because affirmations are “statements of fact”, affirmations must be written in the present tense. The subconscious can only operate in the present, never the future. Affirmations must be repeated over and over until they are internalized and become fact. Write affirmations down! Post them everywhere! Most importantly read your affirmations many, many times per day until they are internalized.

Some affirmation examples are:

  • I am debt free.
  • I operate on a cash only basis.
  • If I can’t afford to pay for it in cash, I can’t afford it.

[Note - The last statement above borders on a negative statement. Be very cautious before using negative reinforcement.]

If you doubt the power of this process, ask yourself how many times you have successfully employed negative affirmations. When was the last time you heard or maybe even said, “This will never work”. Then when it didn’t work, you heard or said “See, I told you.” The point had become fact. Hate and prejudice are great examples of negative affirmation.

Why are elephants tied with a lightweight chain that they could easily break? It’s simple. As a baby, they had a very heavy chain on their foot from which they could not break loose. As they grew older, they did not forget. What were we taught as children with repeated exposure? What do we teach our children?

A barracuda in a water tank was separated from minnows by clear plastic. The barracuda initially kept crashing into the clear plastic. Scientists learned, however, that after repeated failures the clear plastic could be removed and the barracuda kept swimming in its own area. It had limitations implanted to the point of ignoring its basic nature. What limits do we put on ourselves or allow others to do for us?

How many times do you have to repeat an affirmation? Whatever it takes to get the job done. If it takes 10 billion times, what difference does it make if it’s important. And if it is not important enough, why are you considering it?

Visualization

Visualization is seeing the object of your desire with your mind’s eye. But visualizations is more than that. It is seeing its reality in your mind… feeling it, knowing it exists already. The more detailed and focused your visualization, the faster the transformation will occur.

What color is it? How does it feel to the touch or within yourself when you are in possession? Can you smell it, can you taste it, and can you hear it?

Proper visualization involves as many senses as possible… do it with fervor. Imagine every detail and possibility. The more the detail, the greater the focus, the more fervent you are, the more often you apply visualization…. These are what gives affirmation true power.  These will determine how fast it will occur.

There is a second benefit to visualization. By detailed visualization you can often foresee a flaw to be corrected or a way to plan for a shortcoming that you may well have never seen until it was too late. This simple benefit can pay perhaps the biggest dividend of all.

Now act on it!  And while at it check out I need Motivation and Nightingale Conant.

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April 16th, 2010

5 Steps to Change Any Habit

Many ask me how to find motivation or change behavior motivation.  Finding motivation is not difficult.  To find motivation, create a habit or change existing habits.  And if you want to change any habit, change the actions that produce the habit. Within this article you will learn techniques for finding motivation and the most powerful 5-step system I have ever seen to change any habit.

Success

Consider the following definition: Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile personal goals. This definition is critical to your end goal and behavior motivation because it says some rather spectacular things. It says:

  1. Success is a journey and not a destination. This means in its simplest terms you cannot fail as long as you do not quit.
  2. It also says that goals must be worthwhile and personal. They cannot be someone else’s goals like those of your boss, parents, or even your spouse. They must be yours and they must be of value to you.

Close scrutiny of this definition also leads to the conclusion that success is a developing attitude of achieving goals.

But what is an attitude? An attitude is the way we think or feel about a subject, which then causes us to act in a certain way about it. Therefore, we act and react in relation to our thought patterns that we have developed about the subject. So an attitude is caused when we think about something the same way over and over until it becomes automatic. The resulting action in response to the thought also becomes automatic. Change the habit of thought and you change the attitude. Change the attitude and you change the resulting action.

Specific Steps Of The Process

But how do you change the attitude, habit of thought and resulting action? That’s where goal setting comes into play. Here is the greatest 5-step system I have ever seen geared towards changing habits, developing behavior motivation and finding the motivation you are seeking.

  1. Write down specifically what you are trying to do and by when. The subconscious cannot act on some nebulous “someday” anymore than it can work on an unrealistic objective it knows it can’t achieve. Therefore, it must have a concrete time frame, it must be written down, and it must be specific and realistic. For example, wanting “more money ” is not the same as “10% increase over last year by October first.”
  2. What are the obstacles? List everything that is stopping you. What are your inadequacies? What do you need to get there that you don’t already have? What is it that’s blocking you? Why aren’t you already there?
  3. Write a plan to overcome each obstacle. List your action steps 1… 2… 3… etc. for each obstacle from above. Be as specific as possible. What will it take to get you past the obstacle that is blocking you from what you want?
  4. List the benefits to you. There is no such thing as something for nothing. You must replace a thought process and resulting action with a new thought process that will produce a desired result. There must be a benefit derived of sufficient value and meaning to you alone to be worth the effort necessary to do this and to overcome the resistance to change. Please Note: There is a truth about human nature that we often do not like to face up to. Because something is meaningful to our spouse, child, boss, or anyone else regardless of his or her importance, it is normally insufficient to move us to action. It must, in fact, be important within the self. When this importance is discovered or developed, change occurs and it can be dramatic!
  5. Is it worth it? This question must be answered very carefully and honestly. If the answer is yes, do it and DO IT NOW! However, if the answer is no, if the benefit derived cannot muster the desire to overcome the obstacle, you have three choices:
  • Change the goal thereby reducing the obstacle;
  • Increase the benefit to make it more meaningful.
  • Drop the entire issue and get on with your life without feeling guilty. The amount of time we waste feeling guilty is a tragedy of human existence. Get on with your life with other goals and don’t look back.

If you stumble or fall off your goal, that’s okay. Remember: Success is an ongoing journey, not a destination. The only time you fail is when you quit or never get up after falling down.

Don’t forget to check out these awesome motivation sites:  I need Motivation and Nightingale Conant

In the last portion of this series on finding motivation, Adding Rocket Power,  I will show you exactly that… how to put your goal setting efforts on booster power.

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April 15th, 2010

Behavior Motivation Character Motivation

What exactly is motivation whether character motivation or behavior motivation?

If you divide the word motivation into two words you easily see “motive” and can almost see “action”.   But what’s a motive.  A motive is a purpose or reason.  And that’s a perfect definition of motivation- purposeful action or action with purpose to build behavior motivation, character motivation or any thing else.

History of Motivation

Motivation use to be accomplished through fear.  The guy with the biggest club got all the marbles.  The landholder with the biggest army and the biggest castle was the motivator – my way or receive my wrath.  Then the people got together and formed unions and collectively began saying, “NO!”.   Clearly something had to be done since fear-motivation was now less effective.

And so incentive motivation was initiated.  Incentive motivation is best described as a carrot tied to a string at the end of a stick in front of a donkey pulling a cart. As long as the carrot is there dangling, the cart keeps plodding along.  But people are not donkeys and people see the significance of the string.  Therefore people need a bite of the carrot now and then.  But this brings in another factor- the hunger of the donkey.

The best illustration of incentive motivation is the Christmas bonus; the boss begins initiating Christmas bonuses… what a guy!  Each year the bonuses are really a great incentive to do your job better.  Then one year, bonuses are cut out.  “HEY! Where’s my bonus!”  The bonus has become an expectation.

The conclusion is simple. A bigger and bigger carrot is required to do less and less output.  Incentive motivation, it seems, offers diminishing return.  Therefore why not give the donkey the will to perform.  Change the donkey into a thoroughbred.

I am fully aware that you could enter a donkey in the Kentucky Derby 10,000 times and it doesn’t have a prayer.  A donkey will always be a donkey. But that is my point.  People can change.  People can gain that winning spirit to overcome all odds.

How Do People Change?

But change is not easy.  You can’t stand under a horseshoe or find a 4-leaf clover and suddenly you posses a winning spirit.  No one is going to pop out of your mail box and hand you a million dollars.  But there are very specific steps you can take to build within you that winning spirit to do anything you desire.

The next article in this series is Behavior Motivation & Character Motivation – 5 Steps to Change Any Habit.  In it  will be discussed success and the steps necessary to be successful.

Meanwhile take advantage of this sites motivational material at I need Motivation and Nightingale Conant

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