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NLP and motivation-Why you may not be getting what you think you want…
Ok the headline for this post is a bit cryptic. Here’s why…
I was thinking about someone I know who just finished school. They didn’t pass any of their exams and they feel a bit down about it. This young guy had told me he wanted to become a doctor. A medical man and to heal people. No easy feat. In fact in terms of difficulty and time it doesn’t get much harder.
Unless you want to be a veterinarian of course….Woohoo (Tough !! )
So I have been spending time considering what it was that stopped this young guy from doing what he said was his dream and this is what I think may be the problem.
The goal was not compelling or clear enough for him to be motivated to do the work it takes to achieve at that high level.
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Confused ambitions lead to confusing results…
So if you aren’t getting the results you think that you want from your life then maybe you could consider how motivated you are to achieve that goal. Does it get you out of bed every day really buzzing about the day ahead. If not then either the goal may not be quite right for you or you could be fatigued from a long time spent in pursuing that goal. It could also be that you are overwhelmed due to information overload.
There are other factors to consider.
Is this really YOUR dream or has it been foisted on you by someone else like a parent or a spouse. Be honest here because you are only allotted a certain amount of time on this planet. Don’t delay on going after the life you really want. Tomorrow doesn’t always come..
There will be a time when you will wish for a tomorrow and it may be too late.
So if you are working on your Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and not getting results, you could consider two other likely causes for lack of progress.
What you are doing may be out of alignment with your values and your heart isn’t really in it. Your values are what is important to you. it is also part of what you call your conscience.
You use your values as an ethical scale to use when planning things and also to measure your results against when you are done.
You may be chunking the tasks in an ineffective way
The other thing could be that you are either too “big picture” ( Chunked up, as we call it in NLP) or too detailed ( Chunked down) for the stage you are at in your endeavour.
What I often do is take a step back to realistically assess progress when managing projects, as well as plotting how things are going using a Gant chart or critical path planning. Quite often you will find you are closer to your outcome than you think and persistence is the key.
I will go into more depth on each of these topics and roadblocks in the near future.
By the way. It turns out the young man was sufficiently motivated to help people change lives. He just didn’t have the patience for the long haul and wanted his patients and clients to get results quickly and easily.
He will be attending my 2012 NLP Practitioner training so he can effectively and predictably help people to make positive changes in their life…
NLP and motivation-Why you may not be getting what you think you want…
Ok the headline for this post is a bit cryptic. Here’s why…
I was thinking about someone I know who just finished school. They didn’t pass any of their exams and they feel a bit down about it. This young guy had told me he wanted to become a doctor. A medical man and to heal people. No easy feat. In fact in terms of difficulty and time it doesn’t get much harder.
Unless you want to be a veterinarian of course….Woohoo (Tough !! )
So I have been spending time considering what it was that stopped this young guy from doing what he said was his dream and this is what I think may be the problem.
The goal was not compelling or clear enough for him to be motivated to do the work it takes to achieve at that high level.
Th ehills are alive with the sound of metal 300x225 NLP and motivation Why you may not be getting what you think you want...
Confused ambitions lead to confusing results…
So if you aren’t getting the results you think that you want from your life then maybe you could consider how motivated you are to achieve that goal. Does it get you out of bed every day really buzzing about the day ahead. If not then either the goal may not be quite right for you or you could be fatigued from a long time spent in pursuing that goal. It could also be that you are overwhelmed due to information overload.
There are other factors to consider.
Is this really YOUR dream or has it been foisted on you by someone else like a parent or a spouse. Be honest here because you are only allotted a certain amount of time on this planet. Don’t delay on going after the life you really want. Tomorrow doesn’t always come..
There will be a time when you will wish for a tomorrow and it may be too late.
So if you are working on your Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and not getting results, you could consider two other likely causes for lack of progress.
What you are doing may be out of alignment with your values and your heart isn’t really in it. Your values are what is important to you. it is also part of what you call your conscience.
You use your values as an ethical scale to use when planning things and also to measure your results against when you are done.
You may be chunking the tasks in an ineffective way
The other thing could be that you are either too “big picture” ( Chunked up, as we call it in NLP) or too detailed ( Chunked down) for the stage you are at in your endeavour.
What I often do is take a step back to realistically assess progress when managing projects, as well as plotting how things are going using a Gant chart or critical path planning. Quite often you will find you are closer to your outcome than you think and persistence is the key.
I will go into more depth on each of these topics and roadblocks in the near future.
By the way. It turns out the young man was sufficiently motivated to help people change lives. He just didn’t have the patience for the long haul and wanted his patients and clients to get results quickly and easily.
He will be attending my 2012 NLP Practitioner training so he can effectively and predictably help people to make positive changes in their life…