How To BE Fully Motivated
Before you can choose, you must:
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Know what you want
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Believe that you can have it
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Have a burning desire for it
The missing ingredient in most
cases is a burning desire. To exemplify a burning desire, I'd like to
tell you a story.
How To Be Fully Motivated
For the people in one small Midwest village, the
shortest distance to town was a path through the cemetery. One
afternoon, the gravediggers received a rush call to dig a grave across
that frequently used, well-worn path to town.
Soon after dark, on his way to
town, through the cemetery, Joe fell into that open grave. After several
unsuccessful attempts to get out of the freshly dug grave, Joe decided
to sit back and wait for help.
Before long, he heard his
friend Harry coming down the path, whistling away the ghosts and goblins
he imagined present on any dark night in the cemetery.
Not wanting to scare his
friend, Harry, with voices from the grave, Joe waited too long to warn
him about the open grave and Harry fell into the opposite end of the
same grave. Since the damage was done, just for fun, Joe decided to wait
and see what Harry would do.
Sure enough, just as Joe had done,
Harry jumped and scrambled, doing everything he could think of, trying
desperately to get out of the grave. Then Harry reached out and tapped Harry on
the should, and said,
"You can't get out of here!"
But Harry did get out, because he
was fully motivated!
If you find yourself living in a rut,
what you need to realize is: "A rut is
just a grave with the ends kicked out."
I'd like to show you how to be fully
motivated for choosing out of your rut. Let's start with a little logic. Life is
really much simpler than we make it out to be. Having life BE the way we want
it, requires only that we choose to BE the one who will have life be that way.
And, as a result of certain life
principles, once we've chosen, life just turns out that way if we can let it
happen, and if we're willing to DO whatever comes up to do in the reality of
that new BEING choice.
How could life be simpler than that?
But we can make that simple process seem so complicated. We play a victim role,
pretending that we had no choice. But there's
always a choice if we can find the courage to make, it.
So, what would your life be like if you threw
caution to the winds and chose out of your victim role?
Take another look at the three
ingredients you will need to choose. Before you can choose, you must:
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Know what you want
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Believe that you can have it
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Have a burning desire for it
If any one of these three
ingredients is missing from your want list, you won't make the BEING commitment
necessary to having the life you want.
It is a fact of life, that the
quality of your life cannot change for the better until you commit to a new way
of BEING relative to your perceived problem.
