Do You Think Motivational Thoughts?
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What do motivational thoughts do? They help you take action. This isn’t about positive thinking or motivating quotes. Those have their place in shaping your attitude and thinking. But, what motivates each of us is unique, so you need to have your own thoughts – those which are most effective at getting you going.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” – Albert Einstein
This is a decent quote, and it may help you look at the positive side of a situation, but what if it just doesn’t get you excited? Then you need to apply a small brainpower to make the thought your own. You have to make it a truly motivational thought for YOU.
Motivational Thoughts Of Your Own
“Making it your own” means experimenting with a excellent thought until you find a way to use it in your own recipe for motivation. Suppose, for example, you’re in a hard situation and don’t feel like dealing with it. As you sit there, you play around with the thought of opportunity coming from difficulty. Fortunately, you learn that it pulls you out of your slump to reckon about yourself in the future, explaining to a friend how you turned the hard situation to your advantage.
This is how you make your own motivational thoughts. Now, it might be more motivating if you imagine yourself being interviewed someday about how you overcame this hard time. The thoughts that work for you are the thoughts you need to be thinking.
Learn Your Motivations
Experiment and get to know how your mind works. I find that beyond just thinking a thought, if I clarify it to someone, I get excited. That is my own self-motivation recipe. When I feel unmotivated about writing, for example, all I clarify an thought I have for some article to my wife. By the time I am done, I’m very motivated to work.
You can get creative in your motivational experiments. Maybe thinking about being poor makes you get up and get to work. If so, that is a fantastic motivational thought. If visual thoughts are more motivating than mental conversations, then use those. See pictures in your head that get you going. Perhaps when people say you can’t do something, you do whatever it takes to prove them incorrect. Then it might be motivational to reckon about them saying you can’t.
When there is a truly uninspiring task you have to do, try promising yourself a reward for completion – make it one that really means something to you. Keep that thought in your mind to keep yourself motivated. A trip to the beach and even a simple bowl of ice cream may be some of your more powerful motivational thoughts.
Originally posted 2009-05-26 17:14:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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