There’s no hope of controlling my thoughts or talking myself into being more motivated. I just jump right away and focus on making the positive difference in the external world. Practical execution over fixing your mindset and positive attitude. I don’t spend time convincing myself that this is the right move or that I shouldn’t be so unenthusiastic or impatient. I don’t fight with my own head to get it to the right mindset. I achieve and let the dopamine do all the talking.
Listen. Sometimes the story you tell yourself as to why you shouldn’t give a damn anymore, why you’re struggling so hard just to do the simplest of tasks, why you’re failing so hard at everything, or why you can’t do something, is true, bad, accurate, and really responsible for all that you’re complaining about. These are facts. How you give those facts authority over you is a whole different story. What’s being pushed by virtually everybody else who speaks on the subject is that it’s all in your head. Meaning that if you change the way you look at it, you’ll find that it might actually be in your favor. Like a blessing. So change your perspective, mindset, paradigm. Whatever. And then everything is going to be alright and sunshine and bunnies. Failure to do so leave nothing to blame but you. You could’ve taken advantage of the whole situation and turn it to your favor, but instead you cried and played the victim card. That’s the narrative that everybody else except me pushes in perpetuity. Everybody is guilty of not implementing this mindset adjustment strategy, because if they did, they would’ve done wonders despite their situation being unfavorable or horrible, or regardless of the circumstances they’re going through, or what they’re complaining of or blaming as the cause of why they are stuck in a hopeless scenario that is stopping them from reaching basic survival levels of success.
Don’t get me wrong, but when I quote somebody else, I do not necessarily agree with what they say. And I don’t exert any effort to clarify where do I disagree with them. My whole philosophy is laid out clearly in my books and on my website. That’s why if you paid close attention, you may find out that even what I say on social media may seem to be in direct contradiction with what I quote from other people’s stuff. In my worldview you don’t need to change the story as to why you’re failing. In fact, you need to pay close attention to this story because it very likely contains key information that could be used to fix your life and help you overcome the actual causes of your failure, which I strongly believe will most likely not be just in your head or a direct result of your faulty or negative mindset. You just need to fix the environment so that whatever that has led to that story taking place becomes impossible. The only thing that would lead to a real change in the real world is making a difference in your world, environment, circumstances, …etc. I’ll give you an example. Listening to your favorite type of music is something that occurs in the real world outside your mind. Telling yourself you should force yourself to think positive thoughts in order to stay happy and motivated is about changing yourself, your mindset, and mentality, as opposed to changing the environment around you or that you’re existing in. I don’t tell people to think positive. I tell them to listen to music in order to get themselves to be in a good mood, and then they’ll automatically think positive without even trying. That’s my way. So don’t try to believe that the story is wrong. Try to fix the environment and the conditions that you’re in, and your circumstances and situation, so that such a story does not happen again in the future or at present. Noise is annoying. It’s not your mindset that is making you view it as annoying. So don’t change your feelings toward noise. Make it so that no noise can reach you or get to you, through for example resorting to Noise cancellation methods.