What is your motivation for the progress you make in life?
Is it an external motivation or an internal motivation?
Are you focused on the goal or on the journey?
Are you waiting and hoping for something to happen or are you moving forward in faith that something will happen?
Are you motivated by Light or by Shadow?
That last question harkens back to a post I wrote in July 2012 about insecurities.
C.G. Jung said, "If the shadow is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and it can burst forth at any time."
What Shadow motivators are lurking in your psyche that need to be brought into the Light?
Another quote I love is:
Your thoughts have little legs that go out and create what you think about. ~ P. Hayes
What takes up your thoughts?
Where are those thoughts coming from?
You can determine this by following the Five Whys method described in a previous post.
Following your thoughts back to their Source will show you what your current motivation is and may show you why your progress in a certain area of life is stymied.
Once you identify the roadblocks to your success - and focusing on external motivations rather than internal ones is a roadblock - you can work to either remove the roadblocks from your path or find a way around them in order to continue on your way to living your best life now.
So my challenge to you this week is to follow your thoughts back to their Source.
Next week, we'll discuss The Midas Touch - the law of unintended consequences.
Until then, Namaste!
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