Perhaps you already know that the problem of self-motivation in a large number of people is very acute. We seem to be aware that it is time to raise the fifth point from the couch and begin to act, but only the ruthless alliance of gravity and laziness does not allow us to perform feats.
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There are many different ways that can help increase productivity. They have already been repeatedly described in dozens of different articles in the most detailed way. Among them are keeping a to-do list, and breaking down large tasks into smaller ones, and meditation, as well as many other tricks that can help you. Nevertheless, there is no universal recipe that would suit absolutely everyone, and it is unlikely that it will ever appear. It is likely that the person who invents the pill that maximizes productivity will become the richest person on the planet.
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However, there is one alternative way that can help you motivate yourself. To use it, you need only a little imagination, and a large number of films watched or books read can be a good help.
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What is the essence of this method? It consists in the fact that every minute, every second, constantly imagine that you are a kind of ideal person. What does it mean? Each of us has our own unique view of this world, our principles and our beliefs. On the basis of all these beliefs, in our heads our unique image is formed of how an ideal person should behave and what an ideal "I" should do, an ideal man, an ideal woman. In the view of some abstract student Andrei, the ideal man should be uncompromising, serious and work as a banker, and in the view of another abstract student Yuri, he should be fair, with a sense of humor and work as a scientist. So, each of us sees his ideal image of what we need to strive for. How to strive for this? As described above, you must constantly imagine that you are this very ideal person. Are you lying on the couch and flipping through the news? And what would an ideal person do in your place - the one you would like to become? If you are that student Andrei, then, probably, the image of a real man living in his head, instead of lying on the couch, would start phoning leading banks in search of work, begin to study banking and establish contacts with influential people. Always ask yourself the question: "Am I now doing what the ideal person in my concept would do in my place?" As soon as you imagine what your inner idol would do now, you will immediately wake up with a desire to do this.
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In addition, the films you watched or the books you read may be very useful. They partially form in our head this ideal image. Imagining excerpts from films where your favorite characters do certain actions, you have a clearer idea of how you should act in one case or another. Of course, you shouldn’t wring your arms around like Steven Seagal, you shouldn’t rob banks, like Ocean and his friends, but you should think about what would be in your place to make the perfect image that lives in your head, with the wisdom of Gandalf and by the power of Sylvester Stallone, for example.
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In fact, it is possible that you have already unwittingly used this method. If you try to give the simplest example of the result of introducing yourself to someone else, then some motorists may remember it. The fact is that many drivers when you turn on dynamic music on the car radio instantly become unstoppable street racers and fearless racers. At the same time, the same people, listening, for example, to news on the radio instead of music, will travel more slowly, since without this very musical charge the image of the super racer in my head will greatly subside.
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To summarize, I would like to encourage people to dream more, imagine, carefully and accurately form the image of their ideal self in their heads.