Welcome to Motivational Mondays your (PEP) Proactive , Empowered, Performance talk with Mark Kent.
How was your week? Did you notice an increased ability to stay task focused. Have you become aware of reacting to external detractors or self sabotage habits? Have you noticed that you may be easily manipulated by inanimate objects or people who have been given first dibs by your instinct to please others?
Have you utilised the power of PROACTIVE CLOSURE techniques to overcome emotional sabotage and strive for higher proficiency in completing goals and gaining control over your environment?
I would like to introduce another concept called Inertia that is vital to improving your motivation and ability to stay on task.
Inertia in this context is described as as uniform motion in the same straight line unless an outside force acts upon it.
If you have read previous Motivational Mondays(see archives) you will now understand the importance of linearity specific to the brains innate metaphysical needs and how that relates to motivation and task completion.
Establishing and maintaining inertia is critical in developing efficiency in time and effort .
Here is a puzzle to consider. Which requires more energy?
A) A train travelling at 100 kilometers an hour increasing it speed by 5 kilometers or
B) a train increasing it speed 5 kilometers an hour from 0?
Both are an increase of 5 kilometers.
We know that it takes more energy to increase our speed the faster we go so A might be considered the proper answer except for inertia. Really it requires more energy to start from 0 to 5 kilometers than it would to go from 100 to 105 kilometers. It takes more energy to stop and start up again than to just keep the inertia intact.
Ever start a project, get distracted then when you come back to it, find you have to exert allot more energy to get reoriented.? Does it feel like you are starting all over again and have to spend more energy and time to get up to snuff compared to the relatively much easier momentum that inertia provided when you were already on task.
So to increase your ability to to maintain momentum be aware of the efficiency involved in staying on task if at all possible.
To improve your inertia consider these these concepts.
1) Stopping and starting tasks requires much more energy and time compared to maintaining inertia.
2) Staying with one task and consciously striving for closure is fundamental to maintaining motivation.
3) Manipulate and control external variables as well as internal influences so to optimize your ability to stay within the moment and maintain inertia for better proficiency in completing tasks and sustaining motivation.
Next week I will discuss the three options the universe has when it comes to motivation and how you can use them to be more efficient.
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Once again thanks for this opportunity to serve you.
To your empowerment, productivity,and motivation.
Mark Kent
