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What It Takes to Motivate You

Have you ever stopped and asked what will motivate you?

A lot of people are under the impression that they are already motivated. This is precisely the reason why most people struggle.

You see, in the United States and elsewhere, we have been trained that if our pizza doesn’t arrive 15 minutes after we have ordered it, then we are entitled to a full refund. I’m talking about the pizza shop may decide to give you a refund or not. I’m talking about discretion here. I’m talking about entitled to a refund. That’s where we are culturally. That’s where a lot of people are and this time-frame that we have continued to shrink thanks to the internet.

This is why a lot of people simply do not read anymore. When you check Facebook with your mobile device like a tablet or a smart phone, you’re actually just scrolling and looking for keywords and scanning. You’re not really reading. The same applies to websites and other apps. That’s how our frame of mind has become fragmented. Our time horizon has shrunk and we are very impatient by definition.

We are impatient with the things that we engage with. We are impatient with ourselves. We are impatient with reality. That is why too many of us are frustrated. In fact, addiction rates and suicide rates in Western Europe and the United States are on the upswing. How can this be? Humanity has reached the unprecedented levels of material wealth, yet there are millionaires killing themselves. Can you imagine that?

A lot of this has to do with the fact that we have lost touch with a sense of purpose. We live on a day to day basis based on the trivialities in front of us. Let me ask you, when you see yourself in a funeral home, about to be buried in the ground, do you think you would care about how hard you worked? Do you think it would be a top priority for you if you had worked an extra day at your job? Of course not.

You would think about the big things. You would think about your purpose. That is why if you want to trigger unstoppable and consistent motivation so you can achieve states of flow, you need to learn how to get motivated. Click here for a practical guide on unstoppable motivation. This guide will help you achieve states of flow.

Unless you stop and take stock of what you choose to motivate you on a day to day basis, chances are you’ll continue to run on inspiration, intuition, and gut feel. All these may sound good-in fact, a lot of people swear by them. But if you truly look at them and trace where they get their power from, they are all products of how you feel at a certain time and place. In other words, they are situational. You wouldn’t want your circumstances to dictate your level of personal effectiveness. That power, that resolve, that drive, must come from within and nowhere else. After all, you can always control what you choose to think about or what you get emotional about.

Lack of Motivation Kills Your Focus

It’s very important to understand if you are trying to achieve anything with your life, that you have it you know. You really do. I know this sounds like a pep talk, but it isn’t. It’s just a statement of fact. All of us are capable of achieving something called “a state of flow.”

You may not label it as such, but you have achieved at least at some point in your life, a mental and emotional state where things come easily. I’m not talking about you just sitting back and thinking that you have an easy life and that you have figured everything out. No, I am not talking about that. This is not something that just happens in your head. This is actually real. How come?

Well, it actually impacts your behavior. When you achieve a state of flow, you work in such a way that things become quick, easy and effortless. Things just fall into place and it seems like regardless of what you do, when you make a move, things happen. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you were able to do this with almost everything in your life?

Well, I can tell you that habitually successful people trigger a state of flow in almost everything they do. That is why they are able to achieve what they are able to do. For the rest of humanity, people have to struggle with the proper motivations to get that state of flow. In fact, a lot of people are really clueless about this mental and emotional state.

This really is too bad because we all have it in us and the only way to trigger this state is motivation. Motivation enables you to keep doing despite the fact that there are people around you telling you that it cannot be done. Motivation is what you need to keep pushing when it seems that the only thing you are able to achieve is failure, disappointment and heartbreak.

Motivation is crucial to achieving that state of flow. Once you get there, you can trigger a state of momentum where you are able to maintain that state for an extended period time. However, you have to get there first and this means motivation.

The problem is, most people allow the small stuff of life, like deadlines, lots of duties, responsibilities and obligations that seem to pop out of nowhere, to kill their focus. If you don’t have focus, it kills your motivation because you’re basically just scatterbrained. You’re basically trying to put Band-Aids on everything trying to prevent some sort of crisis.

That is what you’re doing. You’re not looking at the big things in life. You’re not allowing yourself to be driven forward by your focus in life. You’re not doing any of that. Instead, you’re just trying to focus on the small things. You’re too obsessed about the things right in front of your nose that you lose focus.

You put in all this time, effort and energy only to have very little to show it. You’re basically just living on a day to day basis. If you’re sick and tired of this, click here to figure out how to achieve unstoppable motivation.