100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF (21-30)
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Nurhidayah Abdullah
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#21
– LEARN TO LOSE YOUR COOL
Ø You
can create a self that doesn’t care that much about what people think.
Ø Take
a risk. Look bad.Lose face. Be yourself. Open up. Be human. Leave your comfort
zone. Get honest. Experience the fear. Do it anyway.
#22
– KILL YOUR TELEVISION
Ø When
you are watching television you are watching other people do what they love
doing for a living. Those people are on the smart side of the glass, because
they are having fun, and you are passively watching themhave fun. They are
getting money, and you are not.
Ø Cutting
down on television is sometimes terrifying to the electronically addicted, but
don’t be afraid. You can detox slowly. If you’re watching too much television
and you know it, you might find it useful to ask this question : “Which side of
the glass do I want to live on?”
#23
– BREAK OUT OF YOUR SOUL CAGE
Ø Only
challenge causes growth. Only challenge will test our skills and makes us
better. Only challenge and the self-motivation to engange the challenge will
transform us.
Ø Use
your comfort zones to rest in, not live in. Use them consciously to relax and
restore your energy as you mentally prepare for your next challenge. But if you
use comfort zones to live in forever, they become what a singer calls your
“soul cages”. Break free. Fly away. Experience what the philosopher Fichte
meant when he said, “Being free is nothing. Becoming free is heavenly.”
#24
– RUN YOUR OWN PLAYS
Ø Design your own life’s game plan. Let the game respond to
you rather than the other way around.
Ø Many
of us can spend whole days reacting without being aware of it. We wake up
reacting to news on the radio. Soon we get in the car and react to traffic,
honking the horn. Then, at work, we see an e-mail on our computer screen and
react to that. This habit of reacting can go on all day, every day.
Ø We
become goalies in the hockey game of life, with pucks ying at us
incessantly(tak henti2). It’s time to play another position. It’s time to fly across the ice with the puck on our own stick ready to shoot at another goal.
#25
– FIND YOUR INNER EINSTEIN
Ø Einstein
used to say, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” The very thing we
need to learn is not knowledge, but skill. What we need to learn is the skill
of proactively using our imagination.
Ø To
make ourselves come true we need to develop the
strength to dream. Dreaming, in it’s proactive sense, is strong work.
It’s the design stage of creating the future. It takes confidence and courage.
#26
– RUN TOWARD YOUR FEAR
Ø The
greater part of courage is having it done before. Fear
of doing it can only be cured by doing it.
Ø If
you are ever in an undermotivated mood, find something you fear and do it – and
watch what happens.
#27
– CREATE THE WAY YOU RELATE
Ø We can’t relate to others if our relationship with ourselves is poor. A commitment
to personal motivation comes first. Because who wants to have a relationship
with someone who is not motivated in any way?
Ø When
there’s a relationship problem to be solved, travel up your ladder to the most
creative you.
#28
– TRY INTERACTIVE LISTENING
Ø Use interactivity as a creativity-builder.
Ø When
we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually
begin to grow within us and come to life.
Ø The
more thoughtful our questions get to be, the more interactive the conversations.
Look for opportunities for interactivity to motivate yourself to higher levels
of experience.
#29
– EMBRACE YOUR WILLPOWER
Ø If
you think you have no willpower, you are undermining your own success. Everyone
has willpower. To be reading this sentence, you must have willpower.
Ø The
first step toward building willpower is to celebrate the fact that you’ve got
it. You’ve got willpower, just like that muscle in your arm. It might not be a
very strong muscle, but you do have that muscle. Another example, if someone
were to put a large box weight on the floor in front of you and ask you to lift
it and you knew you could not, you would not say, “I have no strength.” You’d
say, “I’m not strong enough.” Not strong enough implies that you could be
strong enough if you worked at it. It also implies that you do have strength.
Ø The
second step is to know that your willpower, like a muscle in your arm, is yours
to develop. You are in charge of making it strong or letting atrophy.
#30
– PERFORM YOUR LITTLE RITUALS
Ø Make
up a ritual that is yours and yours alone – a ritual that will be your own
shortcut to self-motivation. For example, the great basketball player Jack
Twyman used to begin each practice session by getting to the court early and
taking 200 shots at the basket.
Ø Doing something is what leads to doing something. It’s a law of
the universe : An object in motion stays in motion.
Ø Starting a ritual is taking an action that leads toward finding the
solution.
Make up little rituals for yourself that will act as self-startters. They will
have you in action before you “feel like” getting into action.
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