Self Help Motivation

If you want to get the best out of self help motivation, you will need to increase the power of your mind.

It has been said that “anything the mind can believe it can achieve”.

To create an increase in mind power you will need to build up your will power and positive thinking brain muscles. The stronger these mind muscles become, the faster you will achieve your goals and the more personal goals you achieve, the more fuller will be the life you lead.

Here are some guidelines to building up those mind muscles which will enable you to benefit from self help motivation. However, seeing as we are all individuals, with our own particular mindset, you may find that some are effective and others not. We all have our own way of doing things and use our most proficient skills when doing them. So put into practice those guidelines that suit your skill set. That way you will be using self help motivation most effectively.

Positive Thinking

In a nutshell, positive thinking is about finding the reasons why and how you “can” instead of focusing on the reasons you believe you “cant”.

When faced with a challenge, an obstacle or anything you perceive as difficult, your mind tends to turn to all the reasons why you can’t. Buy hey, it’s OK. It’s not your fault, that’s how your subconscious mind reacts to any threat. When faced with difficulties, your subconscious mind wants to protect you. That’s its job and generally it’s message to your conscious mind is Run Away and let’s face it, if you came face to face with a hungry tiger, it would be great advice.

Unfortunately our subconscious mind treats any perceived threat pretty much the same way and will have us running away from challenges that we might easily overcome. So the next time you find yourself thinking I cant, realize that’s a normal response then pause, take a deep breath, put a smile on your face and examine the challenge again. Try to think of all the ways of how you might overcome this challenge. Is it in fact really a challenge?

Many peoples first response to a challenge will be negative. This is hardly going to enable self help motivation or any kind of motivation. The trick is to train yourself to immediately ignore the negative and look for the positive.

Here’s and example.

You’ve been laid off from work.

For most people this would be a devastating event and primarily they would very negative.

How will I tell my partner? How will I pay the bills? What will my parents, friends, neighbor’s think?

This response is quite natural. It’s just your subconscious doing it’s job. But here’s where you pause, take a deep breath, put a smile on your face.

If you truly loved your job and were good at it, it should be comparatively easy to get another similar job. If you were not very interested in, or hated your job, now will be the time to realize that you have been set free. It’s a brand new day. Perhaps you always wanted to go into business for yourself but never had the time. Perhaps your now in receipt of severance pay that will help you do exactly that.

The trick here is not to allow yourself to become prey to doubts, fear and negativity if only for the fact that doubt, fear and negativity will not help your situation. Try to look at the situation anew. Here’s a good tip. If this had happened to a friend instead of you, what advice would you have given them? The chances are you would give positive advice. So, to enable self help motivation, all you have to do is follow your own good advice.

I wish you Health, Wealth and Happiness.

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