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THERE ARE PLENTY OF things people need to do that they
find difficult to motivate themselves to do.
These important things, such as studying, doing taxes, or
doing the housework, are simple, every day tasks that
people often avoid because of procrastination.
Procrastination itself, by definition, is one of those things
people don't wait to do.
People never wait to procrastinate.
Again, we have another paradox.
Since people don't wait to procrastinate, everybody reading this thread
can do some things immediately and can put others things off forever.
Some people put off taking a vacation forever.
Some put off telling Gyuri that they love her.
They wait until they are a national hit.
Some things aren't worth waiting for.
Someone once asked me what the greatest difficulty in the human condition was.
I said out of all the things humans suffer from most, on the top of the list would be hesitation.
My policy on hesitation is very simple.
He who hesitates waits and waits and waits and waits,
and the more you wait, the more you don't get it done.
In order to end this cycle and get to the task in hand, we need to learn about how motivation works.
Understanding motivation starts out by looking at the difference between what people actually do and what they don't get around to.
The difference between what they do and what they keep putting off and procrastinating about, or what they keep starting and not finishing, is that they are not propelled to getting it done.
Once you have armed yourself with determination, it's a lot easier to get through things.
But if you can get it so that you are moving toward things with excitement, it's a lot easier to get things done.
Changing Your Feelings About Something
1 Think of something you feel motivated to do. Notice the submodalities - size, color, distance, etc (A).
2 Think of something that makes you want to be motivated to do but you have struggled with. Notice the submodalities (B).
3 Take the image of what you want to be motivated to do (B) and send it off in the distance and back up into the position and submodalities of something you feel motivated to do (A).
4 Again, make an image of you struggling to do the activity or task in your mind and imagine it in your left hand. Imagine associating a color and a shape with it. Make it a still image (C).
5 In your right hand, think of you completing it and feeling really good about it. Give that a color and a shape. Make it a still image (D)
6 Crank up this positive, good feeling, and imagine the color and shape in your right hand getting bigger and stronger and more powerful. Turn up the feeling more and more until it's really intense.
7 Imagine between both hands are the different images of the different steps that need to be taken in order for you to go from the (C) image of you struggling to the (D) image of you enjoying the activity.
8 Take the image in the left hand and right hand and all the images in between and smack them together, filling the old feeling in the left hand with the positive feeling in the right hand so all of the images come together. Put your hands on your chest and imagine all of the feelings inside your body.
find difficult to motivate themselves to do.
These important things, such as studying, doing taxes, or
doing the housework, are simple, every day tasks that
people often avoid because of procrastination.
Procrastination itself, by definition, is one of those things
people don't wait to do.
People never wait to procrastinate.
Again, we have another paradox.
Since people don't wait to procrastinate, everybody reading this thread
can do some things immediately and can put others things off forever.
Some people put off taking a vacation forever.
Some put off telling Gyuri that they love her.
They wait until they are a national hit.
Some things aren't worth waiting for.
Someone once asked me what the greatest difficulty in the human condition was.
I said out of all the things humans suffer from most, on the top of the list would be hesitation.
My policy on hesitation is very simple.
He who hesitates waits and waits and waits and waits,
and the more you wait, the more you don't get it done.
In order to end this cycle and get to the task in hand, we need to learn about how motivation works.
Understanding motivation starts out by looking at the difference between what people actually do and what they don't get around to.
The difference between what they do and what they keep putting off and procrastinating about, or what they keep starting and not finishing, is that they are not propelled to getting it done.
Once you have armed yourself with determination, it's a lot easier to get through things.
But if you can get it so that you are moving toward things with excitement, it's a lot easier to get things done.
Changing Your Feelings About Something
1 Think of something you feel motivated to do. Notice the submodalities - size, color, distance, etc (A).
2 Think of something that makes you want to be motivated to do but you have struggled with. Notice the submodalities (B).
3 Take the image of what you want to be motivated to do (B) and send it off in the distance and back up into the position and submodalities of something you feel motivated to do (A).
4 Again, make an image of you struggling to do the activity or task in your mind and imagine it in your left hand. Imagine associating a color and a shape with it. Make it a still image (C).
5 In your right hand, think of you completing it and feeling really good about it. Give that a color and a shape. Make it a still image (D)
6 Crank up this positive, good feeling, and imagine the color and shape in your right hand getting bigger and stronger and more powerful. Turn up the feeling more and more until it's really intense.
7 Imagine between both hands are the different images of the different steps that need to be taken in order for you to go from the (C) image of you struggling to the (D) image of you enjoying the activity.
8 Take the image in the left hand and right hand and all the images in between and smack them together, filling the old feeling in the left hand with the positive feeling in the right hand so all of the images come together. Put your hands on your chest and imagine all of the feelings inside your body.