How To Motivate Yourself

What drives you? What gives you the energy to keep moving on?

Do you know why sometimes you’re motivated to do something while sometimes you just want to put things off?

What you have to do is to notice your states, the thought you run through your mind, your breathing pattern and your physiology when you’re in a motivated state.

Once you noticed all these factors, you will come to better understand what drives you. And if you know what drives you, you can then repeat the same process and keep yourself motivated all the time whenever you want to.

Conversely, you can take note about the factors when you’re in a lousy state. What thoughts you’re running through your head when you’re feeling unmotivated? For most people, when they’re in a lousy state and when they’re trying to put things off, they will focus on the pleasure of not doing the things and the pain of doing it.

Let me give you an example, when you’re feeling motivated, most probably you’ll be thinking about being successful in your life. You’ll think about driving the car you have always dreamed about. You’ll be thinking about having all the money that you desire and traveling around the world with your loved ones.

Your breathing will be deep and your physiology is in a certain position. This means that you are focusing on the pleasure of achieving your dreams. You’re thinking about what you want to accomplish in your life.

Therefore, if you know that you have to focus in these thoughts to be in a motivated state, do you think that you can control your thought and make yourself motivated when needed?

Of course you can! You just have to think the exact picture in your head, breathe the same way you’re breathing when you’re feeling excited and make sure your eyes, your facial expression and your physiology is in the exact position like when you’re feeling motivated. Then you will feel motivated.

It is something like copy and paste. You do exactly the same thing, and you will get the same results.

One plus one will always be two. So if you do the same thing just like when you’re feeling exciting and passionate, you will get back the same results.

In other words, you can choose to feel and be in the states that you want. Anthony Robbins says, emotion is created by motion. And I think it is very true.

When you’re feeling bored and sleepy, try to move faster and you will feel energetic. It is your motion that created your emotion.

I believe you’ve learned something useful today. You don’t have to use coffee or candy to stay awake. Instead, you can use your motion to produce the kind of energy you want.

Make good use of what you’ve learned here today. Try it and you will get the results you want.