Harvard’s Teresa Amabile‘s research found that nothing is more motivating than progress. Monitor the progress you’re making and celebrate it. So how do you get optimistic if you’re not feeling it? What does the military teach recruits in order to mentally toughen them up? No, it’s not hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, research shows happiness increases productivity and makes you more successful. But we’re most prone to it when we think it will actually help… Well, far and away the most procrastination occurred among the bad-mood students who believed their mood could be changed and who had access to fun distractions. So procrastination is a mood-management technique, albeit (like eating or taking drugs) a shortsighted one. Via Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess: When do we procrastinate the most? When we’re in a bad mood. So if you’ve got the thinking part out of the way – how do you rile up those emotions and get things done? Here are three steps: 1) Get Positive We need to think to plan but we need to feel to act.
Make people (or yourself) feel something. Knowing something isn’t enough to cause change. In their book Switch, Chip and Dan Heath say that emotions are an essential part of executing any plan:įocus on emotions. So what does the unavoidable power of feelings mean for motivation? Our efforts at mental suppression fail in the sexual arena, too: people instructed not to think about sex exhibit greater arousal, as measured by the electrical conductivity of their skin, than those not instructed to suppress such thoughts. Bereaved people who make the most effort to avoid feeling grief, research suggests, take the longest to recover from their loss. In another study, when patients who were suffering from panic disorders listened to relaxation tapes, their hearts beat faster than patients who listened to audiobooks with no explicitly ‘relaxing’ content.
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…when experimental subjects are told of an unhappy event, but then instructed to try not to feel sad about it, they end up feeling worse than people who are informed of the event, but given no instructions about how to feel. Via The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking: Research shows this just makes them stronger. Because of the way our brains are structured, when thought and feelings compete, feelings almost always win.Īnd we can’t fight our feelings.
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