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“What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”
Think up some stories about who you would like to be. Soon you will begin to create the necessary blueprint for stretching your accomplishments. Without a picture of your highest self, you can’t live into that self. Fake it ’till you make it. The lie will become the truth.
The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you. Or, as they say in the Navy Seals, the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.
Whenever I’m afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that’s even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.
You can always stage a bigger battle than the one you have to face. Watch what it does to your motivation going into the real challenge.
It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.
Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives. That’s because we don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
It’s not what we do that makes us tired—it’s what we don’t do. The tasks we don’t complete cause the most fatigue. I was giving a motivational
Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do.
