Do you sometimes feel immobilized and have an inability to act upon anything? You have tried to motivate yourself to take action but nothing happens? Do you wonder at times if you have some sort of problem as to why you can’t accomplish anything – or motivation just seems to be a pipe dream?
What is motivation and why don’t I have any? Here are a few reasons:
You need a reason in order to accomplish something
What are your beliefs about motivation?
How do you behave and treat motivation?
It is really the second one that kicks in when people have tasks to accomplish. It is what you yourself believe about being motivated. No one else on this earth can make you do something if you don’t feel like doing it. No matter what pep-talk or bribe – if you don’t feel motivated to do it, you won’t.
Motivation is not a process that makes you do something, it is your beliefs about doing things that is the culprit. You will do things naturally, whether or not you are threatened by punishment or offered a “reward.” You will do things naturally and not before. If what is being asked of you does not line up with your beliefs, you will not do anything.
Have you ever gone to a doctor’s appointment, you have been told that you need to start exercising, you say you will and you go home and never lift a finger toward any exercise at all? Who are they to tell you what to do?
What about smoking? Your overeating and weight loss? How many of you can raise your hands and say, yes, my doctor has told me to fix these problems and I leave the office never to do anything about it? Everyone wants to live a healthy life, yet we very rarely hear anything that is going to motivate us to take action.
We have an inability to take action or are just too stubborn. If you don’t want to do something, don’t try and talk yourself into it, because that won’t work. You will find an equal number of reasons NOT to take action. You will cause yourself unnecessary anxiety and then you have caused another problem.
Another form of inability to act is the belief that you feel you are going to make a mistake or fail at something. You would rather take no action than to feel like a failure, be rejected, not be good enough, or lower your self-esteem. If you take an action and fail, you might feel you are incompetent, incapable and inadequate.
The best way to identify the beliefs is to notice the thoughts that accompany the anxiety. They are the best clues to the beliefs which are the source of the anxiety. When you get rid of those negative beliefs, you will probably start to see that the anxiety is lifting. When the anxiety is gone, you will experience how easy it is to start to take action.
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