Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP

You now have options of course. If the ecological consequences are unacceptable to you, you can walk away and thank your lucky stars you didn't get too motivated and excited. Alternatively, you can refine and refresh the task or opportunity in a way that avoids or minimises these undesirable consequences. In effect you have developed hindsight beforehand and that is very useful to have.

•Energy – Our personal energy is a finite resource and it’s a resource to be considered. What is your energy like now you’ve achieved this outcome?

and, finally:

•Spirituality – Many people have faith or some sort of spiritual belief or practice. What is happening in that area of your life now that you’ve achieved what you wanted to be motivated to achieve?

Are you content with these changes in your life? Are they acceptable to you? Have there been some unexpected effects that actually alarm you or are undesirable?

Activity 13 – Looking Back from the Future

Imagine, in your mind’s eye that you have vigorously pursued the task you were considering. I don't know how far into the future it is - days, weeks, months or years - but you are well advanced in the process. I want you to look around you so to speak and consider what else has changed as a consequence of pursuing this process.

Let's look specifically at a number of domains in your life:

•Health & Well-being - What has happened to your health and well-being as a consequence of pursuing this goal or task?

•Wealth & Finance – What has happened to your wealth, financial status and circumstances as a consequence of getting motivated to do whatever it was you were considering doing?

•Personal development – think of the ways you want to develop as a person. What has happened in that area of your life as a result of pursuing that outcome or process?

•Relationships – what has happened to your relationships as a result of pursuing that process or outcome?

•Home & Family Life – What has happened to this area of your life? Are there any changes?

•Work & Career – Now that you have achieved whatever it was that you wanted to become motivated for, what has happened in the area of your work and career?

•Fun & Recreation – what is happening there?

•Self-esteem – Let’s look at the areas of self-esteem and self-respect. In this future you have achieved the task you wanted to become motivated to achieve. How do you feel about yourself? How is your self-esteem – your self-respect?

•Security – Let’s think about different types of security – physical security, emotional security, financial security – anything else that is important to you. How secure do you feel now, having achieved what it was you wanted to become motivated to achieve?