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What makes people go from rags to riches? What makes them go from obscurity to fame? What do all successful people have in common?
Desires.
Yes some get help. Yes some are gifted or even lucky. But willpower & luck don’t drive people. Desires do. That’s why I asked you to think about the reasons why you want to achieve your goals for 2008. These reasons are your desires.
Conflicting Desires. Here lies the problem. You know what you need to do in order to achieve your goals in 2008, but you don’t do it.
- You want to build muscle, but Squatting 3x/week is too much for you
- You want to lose fat, but preparing your food daily is a chore
- You want to fix your posture, but all those exercises take too long
- You want pleasure, but you don’t want pain
The secret of success is learning to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that you are in control of your life. If you don’t life controls you. – Anthony Robbins.
Pain vs. Pleasure. You link pain & pleasure to things. Some people reset these links. They’re sick of their situation & decide to do what it takes to change it. That’s when you read stories like this guy who lost 400lbs without surgery.
You still have to sacrifice & to work hard after you’ve reset the links. But you know that this the only way to achieve your goals. And you’ll never stop until you have it. Pain triggered a strong desire to change.
You Haven’t Experienced Enough Pain Yet. Because if you did, you’d take action. You’d work hard & sacrifice. You’d do the things you hate to do. Because you would know that this is the only way to achieve your goals in 2008.
Wake Up. If you can’t wait to experience the pain you need to wake up, reset the pain/pleasure links yourself. Neuro Linguistic Programming. Get Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins.
