Table of Contents

Introduction
How to get juiced up about life – what must you do?
Finding Something To Get You Up Early And Keep You Up Late
Stop Procrastinating – How To Take Action
Take Control of Your Life
What Do You Want To Be In Life?
How To Live the Life You Want – It’s All Down To Your Mind!

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Introduction

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
- Abraham Lincoln

This must be a quote you have heard a hundred times before. There is of course a kind of simplicity in the way these nine words convey a simple message – don’t put things off for later.
Are you one of those people who always put off things for later? Have there been times when you felt you lack the confidence and skill required to do a certain task? Well, you are not alone. This is a problem that almost everyone goes through at least sometime in their life.

“Get Motivated” is a 6 part e-course designed to motivate you in areas where you feel you fall short, and instill in you the confidence and self-belief to prevent you from putting off things for later.

Following this course, you will be brimming with confidence to do anything that is required of you. You will be poised to succeed wherever you face competition.

Motivation will provide that inner drive you need to achieve what you aim for. So look no further! Step into the world of confidence-building and see your dreams turn into reality.

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How to get inspired about life – what must you do?

The next 6 modules will tell you what exactly motivation is and how it can be brought into your life to help you perform better.

So, ready to GET MOTIVATED??

First of all I want you to do two things.

One Write in the box you see below how you would define motivation. It is a common word we all use in daily life. How many of us have actually paused and thought what it really means?

Please write in the box below whatever you feel motivation is.

Two Having defined motivation, write in the next box how you feel when you are motivated… based on your definition.

Jot down in it such things as how you feel, what you think, and how you act when motivated. Additionally, give one or two examples of occasions when you have been motivated by someone or something.

Done that?

Okay! Now let us see how the Chambers dictionary defines the word ‘motivate’. Here it goes:

1. to be the motive of something or someone
2. to cause or stimulate (a person) to act, to be the underlying cause of (an action)

• He is motivated to work hard by the chances of earning a promotion.

According to thefreedictionary.com motivate means ‘to provide with an incentive, move to action, impel’

Simply put, motivation is just something that drives you to action.

The box below is for you to fill in with all those things that you feel are stopping you from being motivated and taking action. Go ahead and fill it.

How to GET MOTIVATED?

Is there something that you wish to change in your life? It requires some confidence to do that.

Here is the formula that tells you how much the change means to you!

A change can be something that is either necessary or just a luxury. In such a situation, making a decision on whether at all the change is required is pretty difficult. This formula comes as a boon to you at this forked road. It will help you understand the forces at play in making a decision.

The Change Formula

This is a simple equation that you can apply whenever you are faced with the responsibility of taking a decision as to whether something should be done or not.

This is how it goes…

DISSATISFACTION WITH STATUS QUO

First of all, you must be really discontent with the way things are at present.

VISION
You should have a clear vision of the situation that you look forward to attaining through the change. You should also be clear as to why you want it.

PRACTICAL STEPS
You should be aware of the steps involved to implement the change. An action plan detailing the things you need to do has to be drawn up.

D x V x P is the formula of your desire for change.

COST OF CHANGING
What will you have to let go in order to make way for the change? How much will the change cost you? Will it affect your beliefs and ideologies?

The underlying rule is that you will proceed with the change only if your desire to change is greater than the costs of the change.

Consider the following story:

A lady once happened to visit a store where she used to buy sweets as a child. She was a lovely person and quite attractive too though she was a bit on the plump side.

As her name cannot be revealed because of confidentiality issues, let’s call her Nancy.

Nancy noticed that the storeowner was the same fellow from whom she used to buy sweets some 20 years ago.
She approached the person and said, “You don’t remember me do, you Mr. Brown? It’s Nancy. I used to come her 20 years ago.”

“Nancy? I remember you.” he replied “What on earth has happened to you? Haven’t you let yourself go?”

You could imagine what it must have felt like for Nancy as she left the shop.

A cruel comment like that would fuel a desire to reduce weight in anyone. And so it did in Nancy. She had a clear vision of what she would look like if she lost some weight. She was also aware of the steps that she would have to take, like diet and exercise plans, if she would opt to change.

Nancy decided not to change.

SHE HAD NO MOTIVATION TO CHANGE.

She saw as per the formula above, that the cost of changing would be greater than the desire to change.

She relished food, enjoyed socializing and going out. The last thing she wanted to do after a hard day’s work was work out in a gym and eat a lettuce leaf for dinner. She would at any time opt for relaxing at home with a bottle of chardonnay.

People seem to be pressurized to remain thin these days.

Had Nancy gone ahead with her diet and exercise plans, she could have become thin. Nevertheless, would she be happy?

Probably not!

As Anthony Robbins says – Achievement without Fulfillment is Failure

For Nancy, the costs of changing far outweighed the returns she would get.

Numerous people fret over their figure and take up diets as an attempt to reduce their weight. However, the same people break their diets or give up on their exercise regime as they find it too difficult to take. This happens as they haven’t carefully considered the sacrifices they will have to make in order to succeed in attaining their goal.

Instead, they start, make some progress and then decide to give up.

People don’t mind making short term sacrifices. They tend to give up once they find that the sacrifice has to be extended in order to succeed.

They should identify potential problems before going ahead with change. This can be done using tools such as the Change formula or by listing the pros and cons of change.

That way, they would be walking in to change fully prepared to face the concealed problems and challenges. In nine out of ten cases, giving up half-way through an effort to change results is yet another blow to one’s self-esteem.

Comments like “I have no will-power” probably means that you enjoy doing something else more than what you are actually doing- and there is nothing wrong with that.

Thus whenever you arrive at a point where you have to make a decision on whether change is required or not, think of the formula. Work it out by yourself and make a strict decision with the confidence and conviction that you are doing the right thing.

Now is the time to look back at the instances you had jotted down earlier, where you felt a lack of motivation. Here apply the Change formula and see what dynamics are at play.

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