How to Stay Motivated? Add in Some Layers

It starts with MOTIVATION.

What is your goal? What do you want to do? Whether it is deadlift 500lbs, or lose 25lbs, or write a book more than 200 pages, make it as specific as possible.

This determines the path of your flow.

However, motivation is fleeting. It alone is absolutely not enough. You need to also think about WHY you want to do this.

Immerse yourself in the culture and knowledge of what it takes to get to your goals.

This is DISCIPLINE; not the act of thinking about your goals, but the sustained push to get towards them.

This isn’t possible, however, without going a layer deeper into the subconscious. We must not only cultivate strong motivation and steadfast discipline in order to generate momentum, but we must automate away much of this process if we are going to have any hope of success.

It must be habitual. Most of what leads to success is not active thought.

It is passive thought. The power of HABIT is undeniable, and it is essentially free real estate. By adding in this layer, you can quickly and noticeably increase your capacity for willpower and decision making.

Your motivation trickles down to your discipline, which trickles down to your habits. Like a river running across sandstone, eventually the canyon is carved.

That would be a great place to end the post, but it would be severely incomplete.

The final layer is your VISION. This is the bedrock of your existence, and serves as a focus for all of that energy and a support to the entire process.

Your vision directs you, it guides you.

It tells you where you can and cannot go, and what you can and cannot do.

If a motivation or habit goes against your vision, it is by definition a bad motivation or habit. Your vision defines your world, and it defines you.

Just as all the rocks in the desert, we all become dust. But, it is the bedrock of our life vision, that defines and determines the course that our short lives take.

Now…go and carve that canyon.