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Staying Motivated

How to stay motivated?

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I want you to write these 3 things down every day before you start your morning. I want you to start off by writing your goals.

They can be short term goals or they can be long term goals. And next I want you to write down your fears, what are you afraid of? What is holding you back from achieving these goals? And now lastly I want you to write down your why, why did you get started on these goals in the first place? What motivated you in the beginning? And this why doesn’t have to be complicated. It could literally be simple as taking your family out on vacation every year.

For me my why was getting my mom out of work, and I want you to do this every single morning before you start your day.

Now next let's talk about the company we keep around this. I’m sure you’ve heard this in the past you should cut off the people who are holding you back or being negative in your life. But let’s be realistic can we really cut off our family and friends that we grew up with our whole life? So I am going to ask you do something a little different instead of cutting these people off, I want you to influence them with positivity, instead of their negativity influence you I want you to influence them with your positivity.

One of the main key things in staying motivated is being able to control your thoughts! We tell our brain to send a signal when we want our body to do something, we tell our brain we want our hands to move and it sends a signal, we tell our brain we want our eyes to close and it sends a signal to do that. So if we can literally control our entire body using our mind, why can we not control our thoughts? Why can we not control whether we want to think positivity or negatively about something?

So I challenge you, I challenge you to control your thoughts, because if you can conquer your mind you can conquer the world.

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