How To Be Self Motivated

How To Be Self Motivated

I have just completed an experiment with myself for 28 days that I would like to share with you.  A couple of months ago I read an article about being motivated and all it takes is 28 days.

If you do something for 28 days you form a neuron circuitry within your brain that turns these activities into habits. After 28 days you then have the choice whether you want to continue or go back to you old ways.

What made me more motivated was the fact that I had left my job and decided to work for myself. With the internet it is quite easy for anyone to start there own business promoting/producing products. That’s what I decided to do. To make it work I pretended that working for myself was an actual job starting at 9 and finishing at 5.

I made it important that I should be at my desk at 9 prompt everyday for 28 days and no later. I would get up at 745 do some EFT to start my day, stretch and go for a 30 min jog. Shower, breakfast to be at work for 9. I would read emails from my emails accounts to 10 then work to 3 doing my To-Do list. The afternoon I would go out on my bike, which I love to do and then back at work for 6 and continue on my list till 10.

These sessions of work would be split in to hours and after every hour I would tick what I have done on my list.  Also I decided to give up drinking, 28 days without drinking… don’t get me wrong I love a beer now and again but I just wanted to see if I could do this be completely free from alcohol. This in itself is an achievement. This was my day for 28 days.

Did things get hard? Yes they did but when they did I would try not to put any thought to it. My mum would say ‘Charlie don’t think, just do’ and she’s right you know. All successful people today do not put any thought to things that they don’t like doing they just do it without thinking. Over the 28 days that’s what I did but I did it by sensing.

What I mean is, I don’t like shaving so instead of thinking ‘geez I’ve got to shave… I don’t like it’ I would start to be aware of my senses instead. As I turned the tap hot water I would be aware of the tap in my hand, the smell of the foam, the feeling of it on my face, the sound of the water, the feeling of the razor over my skin and then the rinse of the water from my face at the end. Just really being present at the activity of shaving.

Sensing it as some kind of art by being totally present in it. You can do this with everything such as ironing, washing, cleaning etc. Jobs can be  mundane but when you really sense what you are doing they’re no longer mundane. Your mind will interfer with you  and tell you to do this and that but try to be aware of this and resort back to just being in the moment and using all your senses. So now the things that I don’t like particularly doing I never put any thought to them I just do them and I feel good when I have completed them.

So if you have something that you want to do. Do it for 28 days. What’s 28 days out of your lifetime, nothing. Being self disciplined is when you keep doing things no matter what emotion you are in. So do as my mum says ‘don’t think just do’ and really be in the present use your senses as a guide to being focused. You will be amazed that after this 28 days you then have the CHOICE to continue or to go back to your old ways.  Before the 28 days challenge to go back to your old ways would be easy but after you just want to continue because you can see the benefits of what you have done.

What am I going to do? Keep doing what I’ve been doing…. This has been a great challenge and I have proven to myself that I can do it. This challenge has made me realise that life can be rewarding in so many small ways and the days are really worth living.

Experiment with yourself. Ask yourself  ‘what do I want to achieve’ or ‘what do I want to give up’? Then just do it for 28 days.

Take care

Charles

Tags: achievement, EFT, neuron circuitry, own business, self disciplined