- Care for motivation — focus on the results.
- Competition with yourself — focus on the challenge.
- Behaviours — repeating actions.
- Forming of habits — repeating attitudes.
- Attitudes turned into habits — repeating routines.
- Inner voice — delaying surrender.
- Repeating of small steps — Discipline (+to persist).
HUMILITY
Humility is trained through successive victories in overcoming the need to prove a point.
Humility is the soul of self-knowledge.
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be the person we pretend to be.”
Socrates, Greek philosopher 470 B.C.
It is the sum of our habits, attitudes, and vices.
WHEN TO LISTEN TO THE INNER VOICE
So, the next time your inner voice speaks, should you listen? Yes.
Be open to it and to many experiences and memories. But at the same time, do not forget to follow US President Ronald Reagan's two pieces of advice: “Trust, but verify.”
Check which voice is speaking: is it the voice of reason, the voice of ego, or the voice of guilt? Is it linked to pain or pleasure? What arguments is it using?
Get to know yourself and improve your strengths. Learn to take advantage of what goes wrong.
The tools that shorten any path:
Do you have an address book? Why do you have an address book? Is it to save time? After all, time is the one thing you cannot buy.
THE ORACLES
Having oracles saves a lot of time. Knowing where to find inspiration, mentors, what works for us, what prevents or hinders our journey, the beliefs we would like to have and those we would like to get rid of.
In short, it is about where to find the motivation to do or to avoid something.
We know that there is no such thing as good or bad. It is the wrong doses of “action” that transform one thing into the other, so virtues can be transformed into sins and vice-versa. Example:
Courage can turn into recklessness. Generosity can prevent someone from fighting for their life. Patience can feed procrastination. Perseverance can lead to insisting in mistakes and delaying success. Stewardship can turn into greed.
Knowing that only balance can lead to a good life requires knowing the extremes, the demons that hinder us and the leverage that helps us to achieve balance, so that we may better plan what we want and find strategies to face the demons and focus on the leverage to resist the pains and pleasures that do not suit us. This is about managing motivation.
Demons, saboteurs.
Which of these is your enemy?
- The so-called catastrophic anticipation?
- Doubt? When you doubt your power, you give power to your sabotaging doubt.
- Impulsive anxiety?
- Procrastination-inducing perfectionism?
- Demotivation? Lack of meaning in what you do.
- Social media?
- Chocolate?
Do not give these saboteurs any peace whatsoever. Identify them, one by one, and do not let them get into your head. Use creativity, defend yourself, do not give them room to prosper.
When your inner voice starts to argue, use the strategies that work best for you to fight it. If you are on the verge of surrendering, delay your surrender, little by little. Time will dissolve the temptation. This is guerrilla warfare. With each victory, your self-confidence grows, you become much stronger, and little by little the superman spirit takes hold of you.
The leverage
What are the things that help me?
- Sleep, nutrition, and cardio exercise.
- Building a diary, with expressive writing so as to create your oracles.
- Planning the next day.
- Making time and setting limits for everything that matters.
- Having clarity about the costs of procrastination.
- Knowing what has always worked. Idioms and proverbs.
- Knowing how to find mentors who inspire you.