Hey guys, Dan in here! You have been asking and I have been listening - you
want more content on how do you motivate yourself as an ENFP and I'm here to do
my best to deliver today. First things first and I think this
applies to everyone and not just enfps I really convinced that there is a strong
relationship between diet exercise and environment and motivation levels and
that's one of those things that on one hand is yeah of course like super
obvious and on the other hand sometimes we really underestimate it I don't know
about you but I've definitely been through times where I'm second-guessing
you know my life purpose or what I'm doing or you know really going into the
psychological and life side of things and ultimately all I needed to do was
like go for a run or eat something healthy or that sort of thing
so do not underestimate the relationship between your brain chemistry which in
many cases comes down to diet exercise environment including the people we
spend time with don't underestimate that impact on your motivation levels now
assuming you're taking care of that and you're struggling with motivation what
could it be or better yet maybe is how could you
just motivate yourself let's not look at what might be holding you back but how
you can actually motivate yourself for me I always find that having a really
exciting vision a goal something like that is what will get me out of bed it's
easier for me to pull off something really big and difficult then like do my
accounting or do some day-to-day stuff that I really don't enjoy because if
there's a big goal that's going to excite me it's going to get me out of
bed I'm gonna be willing to put in more hours it will be the self-perpetuating
thing where cuz it's really exciting I'll have more energy I'll be more
excited about it I mean I've had experiences with myself where just
shifting like my goal or what I wanted or thinking of something new I wanted to
do in my business that got me just really fired up that took over
everything like even if I wasn't necessarily exercising or eating the
best at the time having that really strong goal motivated me more than just
about anything so that's the first thing is if you're trying to motivate yourself
and your general goals like what you're doing with your life isn't exciting to
you maybe you have a job you don't like or you're setting really lackluster
goals it's gonna be tough to motivate yourself like I'm gonna go through a few
more strategies you can use and some tricks if you will for motivating
yourself but ultimately if your vision isn't compelling if you're not actually
excited about what you're doing in life especially as an ENFP it's gonna be
really really hard to just get anything significant done there are some people
who can just get their work done because they have family obligations or that's
what people expect of them or you know that's just what they do they sort of
make a list and then tick it off that's naughty enough P's I think you already
know that right so if you want to get things done set some kind of an exciting
goal now tied in with having an exciting goal is making a big commitment don't
try to figure out every little detail of something before you jump into it I've
had a ton of success in my own life making a big commitment whether it's
speaking at an event traveling across the world or starting a business I make
that big commitment first and then things tend to fall into place they fall
into place because social pressure pressure have people very close to you
or maybe clients you've already committed to or plane tickets you've
already bought as well as my theory is that when you commit to something
whether it's a relationship a trip or a business you switch what your brain
looks for before you commit your brain is evaluating is this a good decision
should I move to Costa Rica should I start a business should I marry this
person or even date this person and that's what you're basically directing
your brain to do right to evaluate what your next step should be once you make
that commitment everything changes once you're committed
to save movie Sarika when I committed to it not only
did my brain shift and not criticize the decision but just think of like how can
I do it how can I get the apartment you know blah blah blah everyone around me
as well like even people that I assumed would be really critical or be like oh
you shouldn't do that for XYZ reason they were all supportive or at least
shut up because the decision was already made
so make a big commitment and trust me that you'll follow through with it
you'll get pulled forward by that big commitment especially if it's tied to
something that really excites you because that's gonna be like your
one-two combo punch of motivation now once you get started with this be
careful what you compare yourself to if you're starting out as an entrepreneur
don't compare yourself to Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg don't compare yourself
to someone you know who's been doing it for five years
compare yourself to your past self that can be a really good source of
motivation look at where you were and where you're moving to and where you are
actually so I said that a little wrong it actually it brings up another point
don't spend too too much time looking at where you want to be as a comparison
point because that gap between where you are now and where you want to be some of
them just enfps can be a little too hard on ourselves and look at that gap and
judge ourselves like I'm not nearly where I should be I'm not at my goal I'm
so behind similarly we do the same thing looking at other people right so don't
look at other people don't look at where you want to be look at where you were
and use that as your comparison point you can look at other people for
inspiration you can look at what you want what you want your future to be for
inspiration that's awesome but when you're comparing and basically deciding
like how you want to feel about your results look at where you've come from
and that enough in and of itself will be a big source of motivation because
you'll feel really good about the progress you've made and you'll want to
keep making more progress the last thing is don't underestimate simple motivators
I know as enfps we often get up in heads in terms of thinking about big
picture and psychology and philosophy and our life's purpose and all this
stuff but sometimes it feels pretty cool to drive a nice car or take a trip or be
looked up to by people and these should not be your primary motivators in life
if you're driven by vanity and status hate to break it to you but you're gonna
have some serious life regrets but that doesn't mean you can't use these as
somewhat motivators right if you're doing work that makes a difference in
the world if you enjoy what you do you're aligned and actually contributing
all right get excited by like a nice bottle of wine or a trip you'll take or
a car you want to buy or whatever that is there's no harm in that as well
ultimately we all have some need to be looked at and feel significant and nice
things are generally nice so that's the last little trick it's not gonna pull
you through if that's your only motivator but if you combine that with
all these other things you might get an extra little burst of motivation that's
it for this video I'm gonna film something else on procrastination the to
tend to go hand in hand but they are definitely different topics so check out
that video on getting out of procrastination as an ENFP and if you
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