How Can You Use Pain and Imagination for Unstoppable Motivation?

There are lots of ways to motivate yourself but for this occasion we’re going to assume that you’re to do something that requires money. Maybe its a task , a job, writing an article , whatever.

To crank up your motivation, you have to give yourself the idea that not doing that task will result in massive pain.

Imagine what the most awful things may possibly be if you continued not doing what you’re supposed to. With that in mind, lets say you need to do job. If you don’t do it, you could tell yourself that you’ll eventually run out of money and food and so you better get to work. This thought may not be dreadful enough of an idea to make you leap into action though.

So lets look at the image of being completely broke and tapped out.

What you may possibly do is stand in your doorway in your underwear and imagine yourself having to be outside quivering from being destitute. To make this notion stronger, actually put your foot out the door and imagine to feel the cold or the gravel or bits of broken glass under your bare homeless feet. Now imagine yourself being homeless for a few years and that your teeth have rotted away and that you’re having to kill alley cats for food. Make these ideas as disgusting as possible so that the severity of not going into action makes you sick to your stomach. Get yourself to the threshold of nausea. After swimming in the sensory rich imaginations of poverty, you’ll be more likely to take action.

Also, once you’ve attached pain to the act of not doing that activity, now you can sweeten your thoughts of doing what you’re supposed to by imagining all the pleasurable occurrences that would result from taking care of what’s to be done.

Let’s say that as you think of doing that task, you then imagine getting a huge round of applause and people are giving you a standing ovation for your work. And then you can imagine yourself on the beach and being served hand and foot while the servants prepare a buffet of wonderful foods for you to enjoy after a fantastic massage. Keep running this sequence of imagined events. See yourself doing the job, the applause, the beach, the food, the fun etc.

By running this pattern in this sequence several times it will program your mind to link the concept of doing work as being something fun to do, painful to not do and then you won’t be able to stop yourself from getting ‘er done.

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