Despite what many people might think, it doesn’t take motivation to take action, it’s actually the other way around! Motivation comes from taking action and once we’re motivated by our actions, we prime ourselves to take more action. A simple example from my own experience is when I don’t feel motivated to engage in my daily workout. What I’ll find is that by making the decision to take action by getting myself into the gym, once I get started, I end up putting in more effort than I intended prior to walking in. Taking action is what gets us motivated and discipline is what gets us to take the necessary action. The things that motivate us by taking action are the things we feel good about when we achieve our goals, whether it’s praise, recognition, fame, money, etc. Discipline is the habit or practice of doing what we know we should do even when we don’t want to do it. So, we need to find whatever it is that motivates us and become disciplined to take the necessary actions for us achieve our financial goals. Our discipline will get us started, our actions will give us results and our motivation will keep us going.
What Motivates You to Take Action
When you think about your plans and dream of your future, no matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing or analyzing you do, nothing can happen without action! Action is the catalyst for all of your desires. Taking action is the one most important thing that separates the highly successful people from everyone else. The amount and type of action will determine your success.
Taking action is what causes life changes to take place and without it nothing happens. It’s not always easy to take those steps, sometimes you have to push past your comfort zone or do it in fear. Fear is a very powerful emotion, even when it comes to change, uncertainty and failure. Even the thought of success can be frightening because of the responsibility and pressure that comes with it.
“It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.” ― Shannon L. Alder
It’s those different fears that are often the reason you don’t take the necessary actions toward your goals. The things to keep in mind to help you to take that first step is, why you want to reach your goal, how it will feel to accomplish your goal and the way accomplishing your goal will improve your situation. What you’ll find is that taking those first steps will allow you to overcome your fears.
Asking yourself those questions will uncover your motivation. Then develop the discipline to take those first steps for overcoming your fears. The actions you take will feed into your motivation which will create more action. Understand that just knowing what, why and how is not enough, you must do. So, get disciplined, find what motivates you to want to become financially free and DO IT!
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