This Mind Trick Makes You Actually Want to Do the Work

Would you like to dramatically increase the probability that you’ll achieve your desired outcomes? If yes, one of the most important determiners is how much you enjoy doing the things that you will need to do to make your goals into a reality. 

If you enjoy them you’ll likely do what you need to do to make it happen. If you don’t you’ll likely be easily interruptible, take inconsistent in action, or even worse just procrastinate to the point of inaction.

So when you think about doing the things you need to do to accomplish your goals, how do you feel?

In my experience most people feel great when focusing on the desired end-result and imagining all of the great feelings that will come along with it…

However, when it comes to thinking about their necessary action steps they elicit themselves into states of aversion which supports them in procrastinating and excusing themselves from action.

Would you like to test this for yourself?

Take a moment to think about one of your ‘elusive’ goals that never seems to actualize. Now imagine taking the required action steps and notice how you feel. Are you associating negative emotions with the action steps?

If yes, the great news is that it makes perfect sense why you’ve been avoiding action. Anyone who is associating negative emotions with a behavior or habit would most likely do the same. Are you ready to change this?

Let’s take some time to imagine bringing joy and pleasure to the action steps. Here are some questions to support you:

• Do you know anyone who enjoys doing that activity?
• If you were that person, how would it feel while doing the task?
• What is it like when you imagine yourself taking that action with joy?
• What else can you do to support yourself in making that task more enjoy-able?
• When you bring joy to that process how much does it increase the probability of you taking action?

When you intentionally take time to imagine en-joying the process the probability that you will follow through with those actions will dramatically increase which greatly increases the probability of you achieving your goals.

Beyond that, when you imagine bringing more joy to the process (rather than focusing so much on the end state) the journey becomes much more enjoyable regardless of whether or not you actually achieve your goals. This benefit is extremely powerful because whether or not we achieve anything in the outside world is never 100% in our power so we might as well enjoy the process.

When we bring more joy to the process we start to build up a track record of success. Not a track record of success in achieving our end goals, but a track record of success in terms of following through on the things that we set out to do and doing them with more joy and pleasure.

This is powerful.

Let me summarize the process for you:

1. Think of a big goal you’ve been wanting to accomplish but haven’t been taking action towards with the quality you would like.
2. Think of a leveraged behavior that, if you were to take it more consistently, would bring you closer towards your desired end state.
3. Imagine taking that action with a state of joy.
4. Practice this regularly until your default becomes to feel pleasure when thinking about taking the desired action.

Seems simple enough, doesn’t it?

Whether something is joyful or not is a matter of perception, and who do the perceptions in your head belong to?

Enjoying taking the important actions is one of the core ingredients to stepping into flow states of peak performance on command.  You’ll also need to be able to set impenetrable boundaries to the point that you become uninterruptible, and learn how to self-interrupt to balance your flow states with purposeful pauses. This will allow you to prevent burnout and make sure your progress is infinitely sustainable. You’ll need to make your self-worth unconditional so you can devote 100% of your processing power to performing at your peak rather than wasting vitality on self-consciousness. You’ll need techniques to blow out any excuses that erode your integrity and the skills to resolve any inner conflicts that would turn you against yourself vs. having all of your resources aligned and working together to attack real problems of the real world.  These are precisely the skills we train in our Self-Leadership/Coaching Genius Certification. 

The more joy you can associate with your important actions the more likely you’ll consistently follow through and the more likely you’ll get what you want out of life. If you’d like to work together on this send me a DM with the word “FLOW” and I will be happy to show you how. Until then, enjoy this process, and let me know how it works for you.  I trust this skill will support you in creating a more enjoy-able life journey towards making your outcomes into realities.