Practice This

I came across Motivation or Action First? and it motivated me to share my simple practice.

My day starts at 6:00 and ends by 1:00 late at night. Walking the dog, taking kids to school, work, house keeping, self development, blogging, love. I am not workaholic – I just try to collect as much experiences as I can during the day, preferably productive ones – here is my simple recipe for this – Plan, Execute, And Celebrate. Obviously with such workload, I need mental support. Shrink is not an option – expensive, too much time to spend, and why I need someone to tell me how I need to live my life anyway?

So I motivate myself by positive reflection each day by the end of the day – I do it with myself, my 7 year old daughter, even told my mother to do so. The result is always the same – at least good mood, at max more power and motivation to do more.

The practice is simple – ask yourself about 3  simple things that were successful today – it can be anything – traffic was good, the coffee was tasty, passed the test, had a nice call from old friend or my mom or dad, kids told me their stories, completed most of the daily to-do list tasks. After admitting I had the whole three good things during the day I feel motivated for even more to complete. Even when the whole day was a disaster then I turn to The Mindset Of Failure which helps me extracting the most even from failure.

The techniques is not new but simple and works for me.

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one” – Hans Selye.