Motivation and Flow

There is a way to increase your success and magnify your productivity in your everyday activities.  And the way isn’t complicated; it is actually more natural than anything.  All it takes is turning your motivation inside out.  When you act from your will rather than some external influence, everything that you do is better, stronger, and more pleasurable.


If you can think about a time that you were doing something you were truly passionate about, you probably remember feeling almost as if time had stopped.   You were living right there in the moment, completely absorbed in what you were doing and content in doing it.  This state of content absorption and present-ness is called flow.  When you flow in what you are doing, the results are inspiring.  You are more creative, efficient, and satisfied in whatever it is that you are doing.


Flow doesn’t necessarily only happen when you are doing something that you are naturally passionate about.  The magic of flow is due to the source of your motivation.  So often, the motivation for our actions is external.  The paycheck, the social expectation, the punishment or reward all give us reason to act a certain way.  But the source of your energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and determination is born within you and moves outwards.  Thus, when the source of your motivation is outside of you, much of this greatness is never tapped into.


The secret to applying your greatest potential to your everyday life is to look within for the inspiration to do your daily duties and hold on to that inner drive.  When you start from the inside and move outwards, your full strength is gathered up inside and can then be expressed in what you are doing.  Most of the activities that you engage in can be examined in such a way that you will find a personally satisfying inspiration for it.  Those for which only an external motivation can be found might be the things that you can consider trying to change so they better reflect who you are inside.


When you begin your day, take a moment and think about the journey you are about to embark on.  Look within and find the real reasons for doing what you do and let that drive you.  You will surely find much greater enjoyment and might even end up doing everything just a little bit better.


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Published on May 02, 2015 18:28
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