Mini Motivation #15 - Do you feel like you're running in a hamster wheel?
Do you sometimes feel like you're not getting anywhere with your attempts at life? I do. All the time.
And because I had good coaches and role models around me, they helped me with a series of questions that kinda nudged some senses into me, so that I started thinking out of the box.
Here are some of those coaching questions. I hope it helps you as much as I did for me.
- Am I applying the 80/20 rule on this? Am I putting 80% focus on the 20% of the things that really mattered? Or is it the other way around?
- Has someone done this before, under the same circumstances, and perhaps done it better?
- Is this the only way from point A to point B?
- What's the furthest I can "disassociate" myself from this process so I can have a wider perspective?
- Why am I doing this in the first place? Is it tradition or forces of habit?
- Is there someone I can delegate this task to?
- Is there a technology I can pay to get this task done for me?
- Is there another way to measure the results of the process?
- Is this aligned to my values, my beliefs, my principles?
- Is this process even necessary at all?
What are some perspective-altering and enlightening questions that has helped you think out of the box or looked around the corner?
Mini Motivation is my own daily strategy to inspire myself. Mostly 3 minute reads.
From Motivation, we gain Inspiration. From Inspiration, we achieve Momentum. And the rest, they say, is history.
Hope it helps nudge you a bit too in the right direction.
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Stay awesome!
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It is important to the task and it is punctuated by principles, ethics and good treatment, are the basics of success Thank you for the wonderful values and the usual elegant in your subjects
You're welcome!
Thanks boss for sharing this useful information, you are a great man
Thanks! Have a great week ahead.
I remember back in 2007, I was on a 10 month working holiday, running the internet cafe in a double decker bus at a backpacking hostel/campsite in Venice, Italy... every night I got to party in the bar with a bunch of backpackers, and every morning I got to nurse my hangover while the same backpackers checked their e-mail and sent messages to family back home.
It was a lot of fun, but I certainly felt after a while that I was just spinning my wheels, that my life wasn't progressing.
To combat this I set myself a really basic goal: Achieve one thing every day.
I found that helped a lot... even if it was something really small, at least I felt like I was progressing towards an end goal.
In hindsight I really wish I'd used all the time I had sitting in that Internet cafe to setup a few niche websites, as a decade later they'd probably be crushing it in affiliate sales from Amazon!!
Wow, that's quite a life you live back then, @rossdcurrie.
Achieve one thing every day, that's like the increase 1% improvement every day that Kaizen advocates. Everyday just run for 1 minute longer, and before you know it, in a month, you're doing an additional half hour!
Don't be too hard on yourself, chief. I like to thing those 10 months give you enough experience to 1) not want to do it anymore now, and 2) tell really good hangover stories. All in all, I like to think it's building the muscle of hindsight thinking. It's always best to live life forward.
It happens to me alot, especially when I'm about writing exams.. No matter the level of reading i'v done, I ll still feel like I'm not getting anywhere.. Nice post buddy ☺
Thanks!
It happens to me very often.
But after aĺl these questions Im stronger , running faster and than....in the same place again..
Where do you get your 3 minuets inspiration reads?
Over the weekends, I will create the quotes with pictures, using my own quote collection, or from good reads.
Then, every day (at least for the next 6 more days, because the experiment is supposed to be for 21 days), I will wake up, pick a random quote and spend no more than 21 minutes writing about it. Basically it's to test out The Morning Journals introduced to me by Tim Ferriss a while back.
I figured in 21 minutes, I should be able to create a short post that takes less than 5 minutes to read - usually around 300 words.
Hope that answers you question, @sadovskaya.
An amazing post. This is the kind of post that each and everyone of us need to read and ask ourselves these coaching questions. Right now, I'm asking myself these coaching question. Looking at those coaching question, I think it can really help us in our daily lives.
Thanks for sharing this @maverickfoo
Thanks for the feedback. Probably will do some on quality coaching questions to help us breakthrough our own limitations. :)
nice one. most people are actually in the rat race chasing for something but ended up still within the same circle. your 10 Qs is really very mind pondering!
Hope it's not too mind-jamming for a Monday :)
Thank, s for sharing your post,
I agree with you, this is the same with other social media, only a few rules and the superior that distinguishes it. thank you @maverickfoo