During the winter, especially in the Northeast, it's tough to remain motivated. Snow can happen at any moment, and linger for longer than 1 cares to remember. Most often, the best plans are staying in and drinking beers with a pal, enjoying some cognac and cigars, eating it up inside with a girl, or generally skipping the weight workouts because of impending snow.
But come Summer, you'll ( I will ) regret NOT having done my workouts. I don't know about guys across the country, but when the seasons and weather changes so rapidly, it's HARD to stay motivated, which is why LEARNING motivation and how to envision goals properly is important. Especially up here, to me.
Many times I've been in certain situations, imagining how I wanted it to be, how I wanted to feel, how I wanted my finances to be, and I make mental note of that, because it helps formulate my goals list.
You KNOW your goal.
Let's take an Example up here in the Northeast. A goal begins with steps. I won't go into them. Because most have already done that. But for the sake of example, let's say it's Bodybuilding or Lifting. You want a better body. Period. You want to improve. To push your limits and see how physically fit you can be.
Goal: A Better Body.
Specifics: 10% bodyfat, weigh 210lbs, add 20 pounds of muscle.
How: Eat lots of protein, lift heavy, break workouts in to 6 week periods, monitor progress, bring logbook, focus on form and compound exercises. Get lots of rest.
Vision: Specific situations where you wanted TO FEEL or BE BIGGER. Maybe it was wearing a suit to a dance, gala, or prom. Maybe it was to the beach. Or maybe you played football with some friends, and you wanted to be the Larry Johnson of the crew. Perhaps you wanted to put on T-shirts and stretch them. Whatever your feeling was then, HOLD it firmly in your mind until you get there.
Let it burn inside you until you've nailed that sucker down. Never back down. Realize how low you might feel knowing ANOTHER year will roll by if you don't do things DIFFERENTLY than you USED to do them. That your goal won't be accomplished until you do things differently than you had and take action.
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If you get into the TEDIOUS details of DAY to DAY work and HOW they make you feel, you'd, in reality, do nothing. It IS more pleasurable in some instances to NOT lift. There are days I love it. And days I hate it, or just don't want to do it.
"Successful people aren't in to pleasureable activity, but pleasureable outcomes."
Sure, even studying CAN svck, but the outcome is nice. Obviously you MUST have passion about what you're doing, and the GREATS always LOVE practice. They love it. Practice IS where they PERFECT themselves, so when it comes time to PERFORM, they're already ready for it.
Pro-golfers work this way. They love PRACTICE. Playing trick shots. Hitting drives. Trying tough shots. Putting. It's all fun. It isn't the competition, and ALOT of biographies golfers state that they loved practice more. They like practice more.
[]Tip: Get the Book: "Mastery."
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The Catch-22.
Sometimes the OUTCOME of a goal IS NOT what you expect or want. Sometimes you want to be buff to be a club to be intimidating, only to realize, nobody cares, or the women you want, don't like you. Or maybe you can't swing the club anymore.
Or maybe you wanted money to FEEL better about life, but then you awaken to the realization that, money can't change anything. It changes the external world, but not the internal world. How many rich people do we hear of committing suicide? Apparently money never fixed them. Even 1 of my favorite investment traders killed himself: Jesse Livermore.
So...if you're plotting a goal, make sure you WANT it, with or without what's there. Throw away revenge. In most cases, outside of hollywood, it isn't a good motivation. Justice isn't revenge. If someone knocked off your family, justice is killing them. By revenge is one-upping them, AND getting back at them.
ALOT of guys come to be a PUA to GET BACK at women...and all you have then is alot of injured little boys, who do nothing for themselves, really, the world, women, and end up no better. They learn these skills to become more adept at dealing with women, they fvck tons of them, which sounds good, realize it is or isn't fun, and how empty it is and risky, and wake up realizing the loss of years of productivity in something else. Instead, see things for what they are, and what you are.
See how the Revenge mechanism as a goal thrusts you off course?
The goal here is in how CLOSE you can get to things in reality being the way you desire. Maybe not SPECIFIC people, but things LIKE THAT.
[]Bridge the Goal GAP.
If you can't ENVISION the goal and HAVING it, do you REALLY want it? I never GOT this until now. You read and read and read, Think and Grow Rich, and envision HOW you want it to be, but until you RELATE it to things you want, and where you want to be, it's meaningless and useless and beyond you.
For me, as it related to golf, I wanted new clubs, to hit the ball farther, to get better, to command my game, to wear certain comfortable clothes on the course. I didn't know "what", I just kept envisioning having SOMETHING. AHA! I found the Driver, 5 wood, wedges, and putter. I paid a mint for them, but it was worth it, because golf is a part of me. Or my alias.
This gets back to guys here...Do Not Want It Bad Enough. When you SEE it, you'll want it. But your mind must Believe it Internally, Then you'll see it Physically.
The same applies to picking up chicks. When you're CONFIDENT in your mind, of playing out situations with girls BEFORE you actually do them, you'll be able to handle the WORLD before you. Because it's getting beyond your mind and using it like the tool it is to YOUR ADVANTAGE that is best.
A-Unit
But come Summer, you'll ( I will ) regret NOT having done my workouts. I don't know about guys across the country, but when the seasons and weather changes so rapidly, it's HARD to stay motivated, which is why LEARNING motivation and how to envision goals properly is important. Especially up here, to me.
Many times I've been in certain situations, imagining how I wanted it to be, how I wanted to feel, how I wanted my finances to be, and I make mental note of that, because it helps formulate my goals list.
You KNOW your goal.
Let's take an Example up here in the Northeast. A goal begins with steps. I won't go into them. Because most have already done that. But for the sake of example, let's say it's Bodybuilding or Lifting. You want a better body. Period. You want to improve. To push your limits and see how physically fit you can be.
Goal: A Better Body.
Specifics: 10% bodyfat, weigh 210lbs, add 20 pounds of muscle.
How: Eat lots of protein, lift heavy, break workouts in to 6 week periods, monitor progress, bring logbook, focus on form and compound exercises. Get lots of rest.
Vision: Specific situations where you wanted TO FEEL or BE BIGGER. Maybe it was wearing a suit to a dance, gala, or prom. Maybe it was to the beach. Or maybe you played football with some friends, and you wanted to be the Larry Johnson of the crew. Perhaps you wanted to put on T-shirts and stretch them. Whatever your feeling was then, HOLD it firmly in your mind until you get there.
Let it burn inside you until you've nailed that sucker down. Never back down. Realize how low you might feel knowing ANOTHER year will roll by if you don't do things DIFFERENTLY than you USED to do them. That your goal won't be accomplished until you do things differently than you had and take action.
-------------------------
If you get into the TEDIOUS details of DAY to DAY work and HOW they make you feel, you'd, in reality, do nothing. It IS more pleasurable in some instances to NOT lift. There are days I love it. And days I hate it, or just don't want to do it.
"Successful people aren't in to pleasureable activity, but pleasureable outcomes."
Sure, even studying CAN svck, but the outcome is nice. Obviously you MUST have passion about what you're doing, and the GREATS always LOVE practice. They love it. Practice IS where they PERFECT themselves, so when it comes time to PERFORM, they're already ready for it.
Pro-golfers work this way. They love PRACTICE. Playing trick shots. Hitting drives. Trying tough shots. Putting. It's all fun. It isn't the competition, and ALOT of biographies golfers state that they loved practice more. They like practice more.
[]Tip: Get the Book: "Mastery."
------------------------
The Catch-22.
Sometimes the OUTCOME of a goal IS NOT what you expect or want. Sometimes you want to be buff to be a club to be intimidating, only to realize, nobody cares, or the women you want, don't like you. Or maybe you can't swing the club anymore.
Or maybe you wanted money to FEEL better about life, but then you awaken to the realization that, money can't change anything. It changes the external world, but not the internal world. How many rich people do we hear of committing suicide? Apparently money never fixed them. Even 1 of my favorite investment traders killed himself: Jesse Livermore.
So...if you're plotting a goal, make sure you WANT it, with or without what's there. Throw away revenge. In most cases, outside of hollywood, it isn't a good motivation. Justice isn't revenge. If someone knocked off your family, justice is killing them. By revenge is one-upping them, AND getting back at them.
ALOT of guys come to be a PUA to GET BACK at women...and all you have then is alot of injured little boys, who do nothing for themselves, really, the world, women, and end up no better. They learn these skills to become more adept at dealing with women, they fvck tons of them, which sounds good, realize it is or isn't fun, and how empty it is and risky, and wake up realizing the loss of years of productivity in something else. Instead, see things for what they are, and what you are.
See how the Revenge mechanism as a goal thrusts you off course?
The goal here is in how CLOSE you can get to things in reality being the way you desire. Maybe not SPECIFIC people, but things LIKE THAT.
[]Bridge the Goal GAP.
If you can't ENVISION the goal and HAVING it, do you REALLY want it? I never GOT this until now. You read and read and read, Think and Grow Rich, and envision HOW you want it to be, but until you RELATE it to things you want, and where you want to be, it's meaningless and useless and beyond you.
For me, as it related to golf, I wanted new clubs, to hit the ball farther, to get better, to command my game, to wear certain comfortable clothes on the course. I didn't know "what", I just kept envisioning having SOMETHING. AHA! I found the Driver, 5 wood, wedges, and putter. I paid a mint for them, but it was worth it, because golf is a part of me. Or my alias.
This gets back to guys here...Do Not Want It Bad Enough. When you SEE it, you'll want it. But your mind must Believe it Internally, Then you'll see it Physically.
The same applies to picking up chicks. When you're CONFIDENT in your mind, of playing out situations with girls BEFORE you actually do them, you'll be able to handle the WORLD before you. Because it's getting beyond your mind and using it like the tool it is to YOUR ADVANTAGE that is best.
A-Unit
