Comments on: Controlling Your Mind to React The Way You Want http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/2009/01/15/controlling-your-mind-to-react-the-way-you-want/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Philip http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/2009/01/15/controlling-your-mind-to-react-the-way-you-want/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Philip Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:43:57 +0000 http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/?p=211#comment-685 That sounds like an awesome way to motivate yourself to get something done. I knew about psyching yourself up, but I never really tried it in such a way. Normally the more I put something off the more I worry I am not going to do as good of a job. I find that with school work I often hate starting an essay because I don't think it will be perfect. I am a bit of a perfectionist. So, that is the only problem with that kind psyching myself up. I can't convince myself that I will "max it out". Maybe I will take a difference approach, I am still trying to accept that everything doesn't have to be perfect. Heh. Thanks for the comment! Always glad to hear your take on it. That sounds like an awesome way to motivate yourself to get something done. I knew about psyching yourself up, but I never really tried it in such a way. Normally the more I put something off the more I worry I am not going to do as good of a job. I find that with school work I often hate starting an essay because I don’t think it will be perfect. I am a bit of a perfectionist. So, that is the only problem with that kind psyching myself up. I can’t convince myself that I will “max it out”. Maybe I will take a difference approach, I am still trying to accept that everything doesn’t have to be perfect. Heh.
Thanks for the comment! Always glad to hear your take on it.

]]> By: Vern at AimforAwesome http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/2009/01/15/controlling-your-mind-to-react-the-way-you-want/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Vern at AimforAwesome Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:41:59 +0000 http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/?p=211#comment-682 You might find this funny... but, sometimes when I know I need to get fired up I just start walking around the room - the house... and saying, "come on! Come On! Get it together RIGHT NOW and bang this out. Nothing is stopping you from doing it NOW. You're going to... (and I walk through everything I"m going to do." I psych myself up this way and it's hilarious - or would be to outsiders, but I do it alone -and though one struggles with what an idiot is - the results can't be ignored. There's nothing stopping me from getting whatever it is I need done - DONE. It's the perfect cure for making myself do something I'm not excited about. I tell myself - I'm not only going to do it -but, I'm going to MAX IT OUT and KICK IT'S _ _ _ and I'm not going to stop until it's perfect and way beyond what it was going to be. I've gotta film myself doing it - it's far more dramatic than Tony Robbins clapping his hands together to get himself revved up, but - a similar charade. lol. Great post - write more! You might find this funny… but, sometimes when I know I need to get fired up I just start walking around the room – the house… and saying, “come on! Come On! Get it together RIGHT NOW and bang this out. Nothing is stopping you from doing it NOW. You’re going to… (and I walk through everything I”m going to do.”

I psych myself up this way and it’s hilarious – or would be to outsiders, but I do it alone -and though one struggles with what an idiot is – the results can’t be ignored. There’s nothing stopping me from getting whatever it is I need done – DONE. It’s the perfect cure for making myself do something I’m not excited about. I tell myself – I’m not only going to do it -but, I’m going to MAX IT OUT and KICK IT’S _ _ _ and I’m not going to stop until it’s perfect and way beyond what it was going to be.

I’ve gotta film myself doing it – it’s far more dramatic than Tony Robbins clapping his hands together to get himself revved up, but – a similar charade. lol. Great post – write more!

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