Tag: act like it

Motivation

Get back on track

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It’s crazy how you can gradually lose focus over time and not really realize when it’s happening. It doesn’t always have to be a drastic change. You may slowly drift away and lose focus and direction in life.

It’s good to take a step back and reassess your goals and values. This can help you regain clarity and purpose and allow you to move forward with a renewed sense of direction. It’s easy to realize that you’ve fell of the wagon, then stop caring completely and continue to do the things that are counterproductive to what you want for yourself.

It’s important to check in regularly with yourself to make sure that you are staying true to your goals, values, and priorities. If you haven’t been doing that, that’s ok. You just have to make the adjustments that are needed and aim to do better the next time around.

I think a lot of times when we are not happy, losing focus could be part of the reason. Stay on track towards your goals and everything else that could lead to happiness and purpose in your life. Get back on track, if needed. It’s possible.

Motivation, Random Thoughts

Act like it

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I like the quote by Dale Carnegie that says: “If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic”. This quote might seem simple but, it has a lot of truth to it.

In football, the coach often observes the energy of the team huddle. He looks at how you enter and break the huddle. In college, on those monotonous days when everyone on the team was tired and had low energy, I would always joke with our Offensive Coordinator and run to the huddle with a lot of energy and enthusiasm yell something like “let’s gooo!” Or “ I got the juice today!”. It was obvious I was joking, but that enthusiasm that I had actually would lift my spirits and energy at practice. It would often rub off on other teammates in the huddle as well.

If you want to be a certain way, you have to act that way. If you want to be enthusiastic, act like you’re enthusiastic. If you want to be confident, act like you’re confident. It’s about putting on a certain persona and embodying the qualities that you want to have.

It’s not about being fake, it’s just that when you act a certain way, you feel a certain way. This can help you be more consistent with certain things in life, as well as more persistent.

Try it for yourself. See if you can be excited to go to work, or go workout, or to do something that you don’t want to do, but know you should. See if you can have the confidence that you know you need to succeed. When you start to act like the person you want to be, you will start to become that person.