"I am very unhappy with my work situation but I have no motivation to make a change. I am very frustrated. How can I get motivated?"
Pain is a great motivator. I would like to show you how to use it to your advantage. Given a choice between short-term pain with long-term benefits or short-term benefits with long-term pain, which would you choose?
If I were to ask you to choose between quitting your job now, with the potential to land your dream job or to keep your job and ensure you can afford to go away this weekend, which one would you choose?
Most humans will select the latter. The reason is simple: Humans want to feel pleasure and postpone pain.
Can you see, however, that the short-term benefit over the long run will turn into major pain today?
The future pain will find you in the present. Does this make sense?
Many manage to postpone the pain with addictions.
Some live their entire lives relying on short-term benefits.
Of course, if the long-term pain adds up so much that it is felt in the present, you will have to act.
But for many, it is too late to make a difference. Some are too old, some get sick, and some lose all hope and give up.
There is a huge cost to ignoring future pain. True fulfillment is only in long-term fulfillment.
What if you could feel the pain of the future today? Would you be motivated to act today as opposed to procrastinate?
What if you could present-value your pain? Would you be motivated to act? Absolutely.
You can choose to wait until the future catches up to you or you can go to it.
Let's explore your future today.
Exercise: Look at your career as it is now. What is not working?
Look five years down the road having made no changes and picture yourself in the future.
What are you feeling and doing? What does your life look like? Look 10 and 20 years down the road and ask yourself what you are like?
Now come back to today. Feel that pain today and realize possibly for the first time in your life that you are facing a difficult future full of pain. But this has not happened yet.
You now have an opportunity to change that today.
Now write down some of the changes you need to make. Look at your life five years down the road having made these changes.
How are you different? What is your life like?
Now look 10, 20 years down the road and see what your life looks like.
Now come back to today and choose which destiny you want.
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