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Ep. 76 Why You’re Struggling With Motivation And How To Fix It With John Amaechi OBE
Working Hard, Hardly Working
Using Future Manifestation to Align Goals and Realities
Visualizing and writing about one's current life in the future through diary entries or professional biographies aids in setting realistic goals. By imagining and detailing achievements and situations a year or more ahead, it becomes clear what one truly desires and what is necessary to achieve it. This process helps to remove the idealization of goals and allows for a more practical approach by focusing on repetitive tasks and everyday actions required for success. It acts as a reward system, motivating individuals to work hard towards their envisioned future by providing a vivid picture of accomplishments. Unrealistic or vague aspirations can lead to failure as they lack substance to drive one through challenges and obstacles. Hence, creating a tangible and detailed future vision helps in staying focused and committed through the inevitable struggles on the path to success.
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the only form of manifestation that I do and that I've found really, really useful is exactly that it's writing a current diary entry or a diary entry in the present, but for the future. So say it would be today, it would be the 2nd of February 2025. And I'd be writing about my current life, my current achievements, my current situation. And what that always highlights to me is actually that can't happen, because then all of these things would have to happen and actually those things are things that I don't want, which I think is a really helpful tool in kind of being able to take away the idealization of what you want and actually being able to realize, okay, as you say, like brilliance comes with being mundane and brilliance comes with like monotony and needing to be really kind of repetitive in a number of things. And actually then if I look to my next year and thinking I actually don't want to do that every single day, to me, that's always been so helpful or a professional bio a year in the future, I often do that. So it's kind of like, you know, Grace Beverly has done this, this and this, she's, you know, well known for doing this. And I'll do that for like five years in the future. That to me is one of the most powerful things, not necessarily of manifestation, but of kind of, I don't know, placing yourself in the future and allowing yourself to kind of not just reverse engineer what that would have to look like, like, could I do these 20 things? No, but I could probably do these
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three. Yes, it's also a reward, right? The idea that your your bio will be not flattering, but certainly will be more than who you are now. So there's a way of you're going to do all this hard work to do something incredibly difficult. So you might as well reward yourself, but at least giving yourself that wonderfully vivid picture of what it's like, so you can kind of bask in the enjoyment of it while you know what you're in for, right, to get there, some, some slog, some boredom, some challenge, some conflict. But you can still see this picture. You see this a lot with people, they fail because their image of what they want for the future is either wildly unrealistic, as in, it's not really even science fiction, it's, it's fantasy beyond that. Or there's nothing to grab hold off because it's a number I want to make a million pounds. I want to, I don't know, there's a postcode you want to live in. And it's just not enough to drag you through the tough stuff that you need to do together.
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