how to stay motivated stay tuned this is Damon cart from NLP gym how to stay
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motivated this is a question I get quite often mainly from coaching clients but I
get people emailing me this question quite often as well how did how do you
stay motivated and that can be for anything how do you stay motivated to
practice NLP how do you stay motivated to lose weight be healthy keep the
weight off keep exercising sales people often ask
me how two days how should they stay motivated or how can they stay motivated
to keep doing their calls their daily calls or cold calls whatever they do
house calls so how does one stay motivated first of all before I give you
the sexy NLP secret to staying motivated first of all you have to stop thinking
about motivation you have to stop thinking about this idea this concept of
motivation because really that idea is just standing in your way when you think
about oh I need to be motivated or I hear people say stuff like when I'm
motivated I will then lose weight or I'll start exercising when I'm motivated
or when I'm as motivated as you are I will make more money or I hear I hear
things like this and it's just really funny because there is no motivation
fairy who's coming to who just goes around to the lucky ones and sprinkles
fairy dust on them and then suddenly they become motivated and they get up
and they start doing everything because now they have they've been blessed with
by the motivation fairy and I know it's ridiculous but that's how we think about
it so the quick and dirty answer to this is habit or a bitch ooh a shoe you might
be saying well that's not NLP that's just something we all do well yeah
that's kinda what NLP is something we all do it's how we do it it's
understanding how we do it so when you think of a habit and you can model how
you do that habit and then map it over to something else you would like to be a
habit well now you're modeling and that's NLP
think about brushing your teeth this morning
where'd you get the motivation to do that or what about getting dressed
before you went to work today what motivated you how did you do that where
did you get the motivation from was it an issue of motivation did you even
think about motivation probably not and that's because motivation only gets in
your way are the idea of motivation so the key here is to create a habit and
then have the habit go unconscious so you don't think about it anymore
that type of habit for anything you want to accomplish is key here so you don't
even have to think about motivation if you watch my videos or you read my blogs
you know I talk a lot about values and how values are motivation and that's
exactly what they are because if you value something you will naturally be
drawn to it you want it if you value food in because you're hungry and foods
right in front of you you know you don't stop to think about motivation you just
eat it and so this is the same thing now knowing what your values are because a
lot of times their unconscious for us might not be enough you might need a
good strategy and that's where habit and habituation come in habituation is a
great strategy just like brushing your teeth and getting dressed in the morning
at one time when you were a kid and this is why this habit is so strong for you
because it was established very early on when you were a child for when you were
a young kid your parents had to tell you to do it you didn't want to do it you
weren't naturally motivated external pressure had to be applied for you to do
it because if you didn't then you might not get to watch TV you might you might
not get to go play with your friends or whatever and so you did so that was your
motivation however at a certain point when you
started being concerned about your your breath smell around your friends or
around people you were attracted to and you became a little more concerned about
your appearance especially when you became attracted to certain people now
you started caring about getting dressed in the morning you started caring about
how you look and what you wear so then the motivation shifted the motivation
shifted to internal motivation not external motivation this established a
habit very early on you don't even think about it today you just do it the same
thing goes for things that you want to accomplish now let's say you want to
lose weight or you want to become more healthy well know your value behind that
why do you want to become healthier what's important about becoming healthy
maybe you want to see your yet to be born grandchildren grow up and you want
to spend time with family for longer you want to increase your quality of life
and feel better so that you can be there for loved ones very motivating sounds
very motivating to me but anyway you find your own motivation find what the
value is and then create habits around that I'll share with you some of my
habits for being healthy I make sure I drink a nutrient-dense low calorie
protein shake every morning every morning maybe I'll skip one morning a
week this way the high protein makes me feel full so I'm not hungry right
afterwards and then I eat a planned nutrient-dense low calorie lunch and I'd
do the same for dinner so I think this thing through and I stock my
refrigerator with these things so it's easy to put together it's easy to put
together a meal of say meat and vegetables very low carbohydrate then I
weigh myself every day of the week except for the
mornings after my cheat days okay so I recommend having one cheat day a week
where you get to eat whatever you want I don't do it one day because I tend to
splurge too much so I break my cheat day in half because usually in the morning I
don't feel like eating heavy stuff so in the morning I will eat I'll have my
protein shake and then from noon on I can cheat and I do that twice a week so
I split my cheat day in half I won't weigh myself that morning after
a cheat day because and that's just gonna make me feel bad and things are
thrown off anyway so that's one of my habits weighing myself also lets me know
if I'm staying at the weight that I need to be so if I start to gain weight I
know I need to be a little more careful so these are just some habits that I
have and because I have these habits I I don't even think about them very much I
just do them of course I exercise and I do all those
things too you just need to create good habits do them enough times that they
become unconcious and it's that simple no motivation needed because if I had to
compromise or I had to negotiate every single morning and every single lunch
time and every single dinner time about this and if I had to worry about my
weight randomly instead of no on an ongoing basis what my weight is this
would not be a habit it would be inconsistent and of course I would have
all the fluctuations of inconsistent health or probably it would be not so
good health anyway when you bring this idea of motivation into the equation you
just create distance between you and what you want so it's really pretty
pointless so drop the motivation get clear on your values create a strategy
which is it is based on a bitch and do it enough times to where it
becomes so habit you don't even think about it it's unconscious and there you
go there's a an effective equation and it's
it's really easy and it's really simple
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