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How to Motivate Yourself: Leverage Dopamine & Overcome Your Excuses

2024/1/11
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一位专注于领导力和个人成长的著名_motivational speaker_和播客主持人。
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Mel Robbins 阐述了自我激励的真谛，指出它并非源于持续的积极情绪，而是源于对目标的清晰认知和对行动的坚持。她以自身经历和科学研究为基础，解释了多巴胺在激励过程中的作用，强调多巴胺与渴望相关，而非动力的直接来源。当我们缺乏动力时，关键在于提醒自己目标的重要性（为什么），并克服犹豫，立即行动（怎么做）。她提出了“全力以赴地失败”的理念，鼓励人们即使在缺乏动力的情况下，也要尽全力追求目标，这比成功更重要。她还强调了在帮助他人自我激励方面的局限性，指出你无法强迫他人有动力，只能帮助他们找到内在的动力。 Mel Robbins 通过分享自身经历，例如儿子大学申请被拒后如何重新找回动力，生动地诠释了自我激励的策略。她指出，在面对挫折时，允许自己感受负面情绪是必要的，但不能被负面情绪所控制。她强调，了解自己想要什么以及为什么想要它至关重要，这有助于自我调节和优先处理重要任务。她还分享了“五秒钟法则”，鼓励人们立即行动，克服犹豫。她认为，即使只有20%的动力，也要全力以赴，因为这代表了当下的全部努力。最终，她鼓励听众相信自己内在的潜能，并立即行动，创造更好的生活。

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This chapter introduces the concept of self-motivation and explains the role of dopamine in driving our motivation, highlighting the difference between motivation tied to cravings and the motivation needed for tasks we don't naturally feel like doing.

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Do you want to know the surprising truth about motivation?

Right now, think about something you want to change or improve.

How do you make lasting and powerful changes and life improvements? And how do you keep going even when you don’t have the motivation to do it?

If change was easy, we’d all have six-pack abs and a million dollars in the bank.

And that’s where this episode comes in: Mel is here to teach you the HOW.

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How to self-motivate so you can take action.
  • What dopamine is and how it’s linked to motivation.
  • The simple steps you can take today to tap back into your internal drive.
  • The 2 truths about motivation that you are forgetting.
  • The research-backed reason you continue, initiate, or quit something.
  • What to do when someone you love is losing motivation.
  • The real reason you cannot motivate others.
  • How to cope with not getting something you have been working towards.
  • How to navigate feeling “behind” or in a “comparison game”.
  • How to pick yourself back up when you feel like life’s punched you in the face.
  • The first (and most important) step in understanding what drives your motivation.
  • One powerful question to ask yourself when you feel “stuck”.
  • What role dreams and goals play (and it’s not always to achieve them).
  • How to hack the moment of hesitation we all feel.
  • The most powerful reframe you need about failing.
  • How to get clear about the direction you are going in without wandering aimlessly.
  • Mel’s 5-second rule that will move you towards action (even when you are not motivated).

 

This episode comes with a 29-page companion workbook. This workbook is designed using the latest research to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life. And the cool part? It takes less than a minute for you to get your hands on it.

 

Just sign up at melrobbins.com/bestyear). 

 

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