Motivated Lies to Reach the Truth

I remember an exercise I did in Toastmasters years ago to practice my selling skills.  allegra non prescription The goal was to promote a product and its benefits to the audience, to motivate them to want to purchase or at least recommend the product to their friends.  The product I decided to motivate my audience to buy (or buy into) was ME!  So my goal was to make them want me. (OK, insert your giggle here)

My goal was to create a motivated presentation filled with intentional exaggerations, or pictures of the man it was my goal to eventually become both as a person and as a professional.  But here is what I really found interesting about the project and the motivational message I want you to walk away from this post with.  As I wrote the speech I found myself getting motivated by the speech as I wrote it.  Then I found myself becoming even more motivated by the speech as I practiced it.  So, guess what happened when I finally delivered this presentation to my audience.  Yep you guessed it, I became even MORE motivated by its content as I shared it with my audience.  Now, with me being so motivated by the content I was delivering do you think I gave a better presentation to my audience?  You bet I did!

Most of us find it difficult to see the truth of who we could become over the course of our life.  This difficulty is reinforced by so many things in our society.   Sometime it is even reinforced by those close to us.  How many times have you heard someone who cares for you say “You will never be able to….”  Well for me it was a lot – but as I wrote that speech I inserted stories outlining what my future self had done to become the person I was selling to my audience.  So I was creating a lie to reach the truth.  The truth is I could become the person I was pitching (and have since I gave that speech 7+ years ago).  But until I sat down and penned out this lie or fantasy I could not really “see” it.

You see, your subconscious mind does not know the difference between what you imagine or fantasize verses what has or is actually happening.  If you vividly picture yourself getting that promotion, eating the tasty cake, or crossing the finish line first – your body will reach to that picture, literally.  Think about it for a moment, have you ever thought about the smell or the taste of a ripe freshly picked lemon?  Did you pause to imagine the smell that would waft up to your nose the moment you began to peel it, then the sprinkles of juice that would shoot around as you split the peel lemon apart.  Finally that tart yet sweet flavor that would fill your mouth the moment it touched your tongue followed by the explosion of flavor that would fill your mouth as you bit into that sweet, juicy ripe lemon?

If you paused to let you mind go as you read that last paragraph I bet your mouth begin to generate a little extra saliva as you created the pictures in your mind via my words.  You see your subconscious did not know you were just reading it.  Rather it was reacting to the stimuli generated by your reading it.  So use this to your advantage, by creating motivating lies or fantasies of the person you want to or need to become in order to reach your goals.

The research I have done on this panned out so well that it became the basis for my eBook “Write Your Success Story” – which by the way will be launched into a full video coaching course this weekend.   So sit down and think up some motivating stories about who you would be motivated to become, the things you would like to do and the goals you would like to reach.  As you do that you will find that these stories will create a map (or as I call it a Success Atlas) for reaching your goals and that map will stir the motivation within you to take the 1^st step towards their accomplishment.  After all, if you cannot and do not picture yourself in high regard, then you will never live or hold yourself in high regard.  Like they say “Fake it, until you make it!”  This would be one the time I would say it is ok to create a motivated lie in order to reach the truth!

Think Successfully & Take Action!
Tracy Brinkmann
One of Today’s TOP Motivated Coaches & Author of Success Atlas Programs

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