Feeling Good: The Fuel that Drives Motivation

I’m about to give you a golden nugget of information that can change your life forever. Are you ready? Here it is. The key to staying motivated throughout the day is to make sure that you are feeling good during the process of whatever you are trying to achieve. That’s it!  That’s all you need to know.  You can now stop reading and go about your business, for you are now enlightened. 

I’m joking, of course. 

But as simple as this may seem, it truly is the key to staying motivated and achieving the quality of success that you desire. Why?  Because feeling good is the fuel that drives motivation. Write that down and slap in on your refrigerator. Here it is again. Say it out loud. Feeling good is the fuel that drives motivation. That’s your choice and your responsibility. 

Nothing, absolutely nothing, keeps people from staying motivated and achieving their goals more than harboring negative emotions or having a bad attitude during the process.  The number one reason why people in business fail or have difficulty achieving their goals is because the positive momentum ceases. And the reason why positive momentum ceases is because the individual is focusing all of their energy on what isn’t working and all of the things that need to be done in order to make it work.

This type of chaotic thinking leaves the individual with no room at all in that brain of theirs for positive thoughts to seep through so they can come up with healthier alternatives or to deal with the next challenge that will inevitably follow moments later. In other words, your life or your business will not work if you keep thinking about what’s wrong, or what isn’t working.

When you are setting out to achieve any goal you have to be vigilant about what you’re thinking about and what you’re focusing on.  Nothing brings out the worst in any negative situation faster than you focusing on it.  On the other hand, nothing brings out the best in any positive situation faster than you focusing upon it.  The point is that you have to be aware of what you’re thinking about and focusing on if you want to stay motivated and succeed. Observing the problem only perpetuates it.  Trying to figure out how it got started doesn’t help.  Taking action while feeling negative emotions only compounds the problem.  Remember, it isn’t necessarily the details of a particular challenge that weigh us down, but our own self-induced negative energy that keeps us from thinking positive and moving forward with hope and optimism that does. 

It’s important to understand that the way that you feel at any given moment is dependent upon and evoked by what you are thinking or saying out loud at any given moment. In other words, your thoughts create the way you feel. That’s right.  Don’t give me that look. Do you want proof?  Keep reading.

Right now I want you to try feeling angry, but do it without thinking about anything that makes you angry.  It doesn’t work, right? How can you feel angry without thinking about something that elicits that emotion from you? You can’t.  It’s impossible. 

Now try feeling guilty without thinking about something specific that you feel guilty about. Once again, you can’t. The thought has to come first. Your emotional state is the direct result of your thoughts. And the tone of your thoughts becomes your life experience. 

So, the first step to turning this train wreck in your mind around is by being alert and becoming aware of how you are feeling at any given moment.  In other words, when you’re feeling uptight, stressed-out or any negative emotion at all, I want you to stop and acknowledge that something is not right in your world. I want you to think of what you are doing to yourself. And I want you to understand what the repercussions will be if you continue this negative rampage that you’ve created. Why is Awareness so important?  Because, as soon as you become aware of how you are feeling, the negative sensations will temporarily cease. 

In that moment of awareness, you enter into a whole new world of possibilities and opportunities, where you can choose healthier alternatives on how to respond.  In this world of possibilities and opportunities, you are now free to gradually Shift your focus and way of thinking to things and thoughts that will gradually lift you up and make you feel better and better. And that’s what you want, isn’t it?

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