Motivation is great.
But a lot of the time doubts and distractions will initiate their counteroffensive to trounce the motivation we were once feeling.
Being in this state of all out mind warfare between negative vibes and positive hope can be daunting for sure.
Instead of being caught in the mental cross fire, let’s just get to work.
When we put in work, we are able to get ourselves out of our heads and into the fray.
It’s common to have something that we’re wanting to do for ourselves, and we’re initially hyped.
But then we don’t start.
Why don’t we just exert ourselves and do our stuff? To make goals for ourselves, to live how we want.
Doubts and distractions.
This means we need to counter the negativity and focus.
We get in the right mindset and overcome our doubts.
Everything seems to be good.
Days pass, weeks pass, and for some reason we’re still not doing our stuff.
What’s going on?
Our mind may be pulling some tricks on us.
The first thing we will tell our selves:
“I’ve got to feel it to do it”
Our mind says that we’ve gotta be feeling motivated, we’ve gotta be ready for the endeavor before we start.
But we’ll never be ready.
We’ll also convince ourselves that thinking about or planning something is actually getting our stuff done.
We have to plan, but at a certain point we’ll need to take action.
Because taking action is tough, we’ll fall into the thinking trap.
So what’s the solution?
Willpower isn’t fancy, but it gets the job done.
When we get into those slumps, where we’re just like .. wow, why am I not doing my stuff? ..
It’s because we don’t feel like it.
But once we realize that it’s all about throwing ourselves into the fray, we’ll be less likely to let our habits of overthinking hijack the operating system.
This is where willpower can come in and make things happen.
Learning this simple skill (doing our stuff when we don’t feel like it), is a game changer.
Imagine how great it’ll be will be once we start developing our willpower like a muscle.
I was lacking in motivation today, but I still decided to work. I can definitely relate when you say that we shouldn’t wait until we are feeling motivated or good before we take any actions toward our goals.
Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! – Keep up the good work.
Hi Jon,
I like how you’ve summed it all up by saying Let’s avoid being in the mental cross fire by just getting to work. When we do our work, our willpower will get stronger and stronger. This’ll pay huge dividends in the future because we’ll be more prone to tackle the things we need to tackle for our personal growth and the attainment of positive vibes.Really good advice here. I know it’s always been my experience that ACTION builds confidence and momentum and keeps us out of the line of that ‘mental cross fire” you speak of. Other articles on this website that are similar, getting us motivated are great. Keep it up.
Great read. Thank you.
Warmly,
Heather :-)”
Thanks Heather, glad it helped!
You have a website that provides great advise, and motivation. I feel like it came at the right time, since it made me understand several things that I had all over the place.
I feel like I am a very motivated person who is proactive and likes to work hard. Than you for sharing.
You’re welcome Juan. Keep up the good work
Motivation is really important because we need it when we’re working on our willpower, I think is not two separate themes, are two themes totally together. We can’t leave motivation, I have always say that motivation is like food, we need day by day, over and over again because we need to feed our minds because the minds are powerful, more than we can even imagine. Nice article. Best regards.
Thanks for the feedback!
Great Article! I believe alot of our negative thoughts have been developed over a long period of time depending on what we allowed to plant itself into our subconcious mind, most of the time it was just a mere negative suggestion from someone else.
So just as these negative mind sets have taken a while to develop we have to counteract these thoughts by filling our subconcious mind with positive affermations.
This process does take awhile but if we are consistant I believe our motivation and will power will follow.
I agree. That’s so true: I takes time to reprogram, so it’s important not to give up
I love how you put motivation and willpower against eachother like that. I really love when people like you puts a lot of effort in helping other people. Very nice post, i really like it. Keep going with this man! I am definitely gonna bookmark your page. Maybe even show it to a couple of friends.
Thanks man
To reach your goals in life you must have both motivation and willpower to succeed, my biggest problem with motivation is I often push myself too much and exhaust myself. I think willpower is much more difficult for many of us, if you are trying to lose weight motivation I think is much easier than willpower to reach your weight goals.