Misconceptions of Motivation...

Do you feel that you're unmotivated?

Do you beat yourself up for spending so much time dreaming, and not actually doing?

How long have you been that way? Always?

Let me tell you why: motivation is not what you think it is. Motivation is not some force within that spurs you into action. Rather, motivation is a reward. Expecting that you should be a motivated person is like expecting a paycheck without ever showing up for work.

You have the cart before the horse.

What you seek is not motivation, but momentum. We all know what momentum is, right? An object in motion tends to stay in motion...

Momentum is what gets things done, it is the behavioral patterns that ultimately make you or break you.

If you are spending your days struggling with this illusion of motivation, it is time to stop, now.

Start changing your momentum instead. Your brain is the most powerful pattern matching machine that nature has conceived, in large part because of the psychological reward you experience when your behavior matches an existing pattern.

So what do you do? How do you experience that psychological reward by doing the things that you know will eventually make you successful?

Well that's easy, you forget about feeling content, you forget about your fear of devoting time to something that may not work, and you take action!

By sheer force of will, you take action. You don't have to know if what you do will make money, or even make you happy.

The one thing that you can be sure of is that anything that you do repeatedly for even a short period of time will become one of those patterns that your mind locks you into.

Simply take action for action's sake, and once you have started building the mental patterns of a doer not a dreamer, you can start deciding what specific actions will get the results you want.

That is when you experience motivation, and it won't happen a moment before.

Change your momentum, and everything else will follow.