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''Just do it!'' - Motivational monday!
Following on with our mini series for Motivational Monday, Click Here for last week's Motivational Monday.
Getting Inspired
Ways to get inspired are to change things up, change
your surroundings. Work with what you have, talk to people around you. What I’m
basically saying here is draw a line between your thoughts and your actions
with your end sight in mind. That’s going to gain your momentum and get you
inspired.
Reactive or Proactive?
If you’re reading these this and thinking to yourself ‘’yeah, I
say I’m going to do all these things but I probably am not.’’ There are 2 types
of people in this world, there are reactive people and people who are
proactive. You can be the reactive person and sit back, watching your life
flash before your eyes, constantly reacting to it. You’re not proactively going
after things, you're just letting life happen pretending you have no control over
it. Then being reactive and emotional about it, thinking your life is unfair,
and then once again thus completes the cycle. Or you can be a proactive person,
stop making excuses, start finding the inspiration and going through things.
Even if you don’t end up getting exactly what you want, you’re going to end up damn
close! To tie that back in, what I’m saying is get inspired and get excited
about the things that you want to start changing in your life.
Setting Rules & Boundaries
Which leads me into, probably one of the
most crucial steps in this process, and one we tend to veer of course from.
This is the one step we get to and then drop off, it’s called cultivating a
plan. You can have all the inspiration and all the motivation in the world but
if you have no set plan, rules or guidelines for yourself. You are not going to
know what the hell you’re doing or where you’re going! When you put roles and
guideline on yourself, you're giving yourself more freedom. I know that sounds
contradictory but think of it like this; if you were to take the time to come
up with, not only a routine/schedule but also just some hard-fast rules (like;
I don’t stay up past midnight) that gives me way more time, way more freedom to
use my brain power of other things. So cultivate a plan that’s going to get you
back on track for whatever you feel you need back on track for. Get as detailed about your plan and rules as
possible, so that you know exactly what you should be doing every step of the
way. Don’t go overboard with this be sure to give yourself that reward for
every time you work hard to. Don’t think you can put any time aside for
leisure, or any time to just not have a plan but just make sure that it’s part
of the plan. Like leaving Sundays free to do exactly what you feel like on that
day.
Planning a Schedule & Just Do It!
Lastly, this is the last place we all drop off. I
love the planning process, it is my favourite part. If you asked me to plan a
schedule from now until the end of me being 90 years old, I would love every
single second of it. Then when it came to doing it, that is where my troubles
lie. You must now do it.
Stop thinking about it, talking about and just do it! In a lot of ways when
we say were motivated about things what were really saying is that we just
don’t feel like doing it. Spending all this time thinking about doing it and
look for magical mindset that are just going to make us do it, when in all
reality if you just do it, it’s done! Normally that will create a domino effect
and get the ball rolling for you to the next thing, and so on. Our thought
process is what talks us out of doing the things we want to be doing most
because we think we’re going to fail, or that it’s going to go wrong. What the
point? We’ve become accustomed to not really wanting to work for anything
anymore. When we see anything as a huge daunting task our action just goes,
hell no I’m not doing that. That seems like it’s going to take way to long.
Break it down and make it so that each task and daily do, is going to give you
a sense of small gratification and then act on it. This is a quite from a book
called Badass – ‘’people who want to change their life’s will find a way, and
people who don’t will find an excuse’’ It’s completely up to you, you can find
a way to get things back on track or you can find an excuse not to. At the end
of the day the only person you are hurting is yourself.
There you have it the most important guidelines into
which I’ve felt like I’ve put my life back on track with. For any of you guys who
are reading this and feel you’ve been in a bit of a rut or you couldn’t get
motivated (especially during these colder months). I’m telling you just try
these four steps, even if it’s just for a week and see if it makes any
difference on your mindset, motivation and on your life. I will bet you
anything it will. I hope you all enjoyed this motivational post and Thank you
for reading, leave me a comment if you liked this or feel it had helped in any
way.
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