No matter where you are in life, you gotta’ be running & bettering yourself because if you’re not moving forward you’re moving backward. Know why you’re running too. Someone may act as a gazelle, be grinding at job searching, and want an income source asap in order to avoid rock bottom financially. Or someone may be a lion w/ children, prepare for that job interview intensely, and want that income source so their children can go to a better school. The overlooked truth is that those hypothetical people can be the same person. People should push themselves from multiple spectrums and not limit themselves to one motivational tactic when multiple mindsets are accessible.
As I explained in You Got a Match? ?, your inner flames can push you towards greatness. Circumstances with negative consequences (a fire burning inside of you) puts you in a gazelle state of mind. At the same time adversity is attacking you, why not be hungry for what’s on the other side though also? Envision success, act as a lion, and sprint towards goals. At times, people forget they can use every tactic in their motivational toolbox. An out-of-shape person can only use his/her muffin top as motivation to workout, and perhaps that’s enough. But if that is combined with the motivation to run towards a particular body look – that mindset is built differently. It’s stronger because it comes from both sides. And no matter where you are in life, motivators can be found on opposite sides. So don’t think you’re a lion or a gazelle; be a galion & relentlessly use that realization to sprint as hard as you’ve ever sprinted before.
Og Mandino – “I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.”
Elliot Hulse (2:26) – “There are two different types of motivation … What I’m talking about here now are different motivating factors that either get you to run away from s*** or towards s***. And I guarantee you – 90% of people – are far more motivated by running away from s*** than running towards s***. Because, for example if that multi-million dollar contract on the other end of you doing some exercises was a dog with big fangs chopping at your ass … you’d run like a motherf*****. If that dog was chasing you, you wouldn’t stop running. Cause bad s*** is about to happen, and running away from bad s*** is always easier than running towards something … “
– JD Inspired