If you want to have consistent motivation when trying to achieve a goal know these things:
- Winners like Gary Vee and Tiger Woods are deaf to external feedback, positive or negative. Feedback can be affirmations from others or a birdy.
- This makes sense because to our brain, feedback is a singular concept. It doesn’t distinguish between good or bad. Whatever weight (e.g. emotional response) you put on the good you will therefore, experience with the bad.
- That means if you want to stop riding the motivation rollercoaster, you have to let go of getting excited about positive external feedback that indicates progression towards your goal when you are working towards that goal. You only get to get excited once you war is won, but not when you win a battle.
- I know this sounds depressing, because it kind of is. But this is the goal for the week. When you notice you are getting emotionally engaged/excited about some positive feedback, stop yourself. I made you a How To Kill Your Buzz infographic to keep is short. You can also look at the How to episode Podcast for this week or the How to episode Youtube as well. Let me know how it goes in the comments and subscribe to whatever you want.
Check back next week for the less depressing part 2 of this post.
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HOW TO: Kill Your Buzz, podcast episode
HOW TO: Kill Your Buzz, YOUTUBE episode
ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF THIS EPISODE
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Blog version/notes:
Self Growth Is Hard, The Blog
Here are a few of the resources I mentioned in the episode:
Gary Vee Stuff:
Book: The Thank You Economy.
Podcast Episode: Overcoming Your Social Media Vulnerabilities (at 21:20)
