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Do you know what most motivational experts hope you'll never find out the stuff they teach this total bs the last time a motivational poster change your life. You know what, yes, the wheel dream a little bigger today. Never ok, then, how do you get and stay motivated. How motivation actually works? Motivation comes in waves some days. We hop out of bed ready to take on the world. We are big projects, dream big dreams and know that. Finally, we're going to accomplish something, but then. Tomorrow comes we sit down in the same place. We saw yesterday where we were on fire and ready to go and nothing. We look at our Netflix Q or go and buy a cup of coffee. We can't seem to get that spark back miss our motivation works. So if rely motivation alone, we are set

our up for failure. What can we do? Instead? One of my mentors be J fog who runs the persuasive technology lab at Stanford says we should assume that our future self is going to be lazy. With no motivation, we need us systems to make achieve our goals as easy as possible, even when our motivation is low, in other words, motivation doesn't work systems. Do here's how to use systems? keep yourself goin, even one motivation, slumps step. One plan for failure: successful people aren't luckier than most people, but they do tat, more things and are willing to fail. For example, my good friend him Ferris was rejected twenty six times before a publisher finally accepted his idea for the four hours quick that later became a New York Times. An Wall Street Journal best seller. Almost any one husband

Successful has a similar story of failure before triumph, but the difference between average in top performers is that average people are blindsided by failure and give up on it drags top. Performers, on the other hand, actively seek out failure, because no success is on the other side how you start using the principle of motivational waves right now, number one make a list of everything you need to get to accomplish goal number two then set up those pieces to make it impossible fail. Here is an example. What that might look like dj fog wanted to drink more tee, so he bought all the tea electric cattle to boil water. And set everything up in easy reach on his counter, even when he felt like drinking something else, mills right There are many no brain or to make. I was trying to former Jim habit. Given the morning planning to go, but after a few minutes decide not to. I discover that if I put Jim closer. My shoes next to my bed. I'll put them on first day

and by that point I might as well just go. Chandler bolt of the productive person wrote three hundred sixty five. Thank you know, last year by pre, stamping and adding address labels to batches of fifty cards by keeping the cards close I he was able to make it easy to write and send the cards with or without motivation step. To put it on your calendar. Imagine playing a basketball game against Lebron James. We have the best choose the most expensive pair of athletic short. Fancy had banned and the Great Jersey in the world, and he has no shoes ripped shorts and addressed shirt. Who would win sounds ridiculous, but we play the same game against motivation every day. The tools don't matter as much as we think novices love to focus on productivity, hacks, absent tools, it's easy and they more fun to play with new, shiny tools than to simply do or works, but usually the FAO.

Mantles things like a simple calendar pan and paper work as well. Maybe not better than some arab execution is more important than the tactic itself? How you can start using this motivation system right now decide ahead of time, a map out your schedule for the weak, either on paper or in a simple calendar, says some then send flirt in your calendar or on your phone to review this every week. Keep thinking ahead and you'll never be caught off guard or pressed for time step. Three develop laser, guided focus, DJ fog talks about competing motivations, sometimes even our best efforts, Earth are thwarted because something else comes along. Sometimes these are external distractions. Men, emergency comes up, we have family demands and work gets busy, but just as often we cannibalize one goal by shifting focus too, another. The result we don't make much progress on either developing focus and be able

put some ideas on hold is a scale that almost guarantees we make progress on matters. How you can use as motivation system right now One pick your number one goal miss it. Learning more money getting in shape May your dream job a number to grab a pan and paper and write it down, really do this now. This isn't a silly thought exercise we're doing this to commit ourselves to one course of action and fall through bonus, step test and adjust Setting up systems is the best way to motivate yourself and to maximize impact. We have to find the best system for us and then a just if its not working You just to the post. Titled had a motive. Yourself Burmese. Eighty about teach you to be rich dot com he's a few videos in that post that are worth,

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