In the survey, a lot of people have been asking questions like:
- How to keep doing things instead of just thinking about them?
- How can I continuously turn a sense of "lock-up" into a flow from idea to action?
- How do I find the motivation to get started?
- How to stop reading self-help books and start doing?
So I created this little 10-minute training video to answer them. In it, I explain how to use natural "pull" motivation to instantly turn thoughts into action... the way the thought of having some chocolate cake can quickly turn into action!
So watch, learn, and enjoy! Oh, and don't forget to leave a comment here, to let me know what you think.
Great video
Thanks PJ great video as usual, seriously can't wait for the book to be released, please hurry :)
Thanks!
Thanks Phillip!
The "watching YouTube when you're supposed to be working" bit has thrown me over :-)
It works for me
Thanks PJ, good tip.
You know, i've actually cleaned my desk after watching your video :) Pretty simple trick and it works for me, i'll try to test it on more complex tasks.
Keep it up!
Great video - great
Great video - great content.
As always - YOU ROCK :)
pull motivation
by mere watching the video,i can feel the pull.this is great.
Hmmm....
Hi PJ,
First time I've seen/heard you after reading Dirt Simple for a long time. Nice video - clean, clear, and (for once) the audio was good quality (that's the main reason I don't often bother with videos).
And... I've got a clean desk. What can I say? No real "ra-ra, let's DO this thing", motivation. More like a "Ah well, might as well do it anyway" motivation. Just like picking the fork up and cutting into the chocolate cake: the lifting up of the fork isn't that exciting either, but we still do it!
Looking forward to your future output
Regards,
Andy Peacock
Thanks!
I now have a tidy desk and a tidy room - and while watching the video I had a couple of ah-ha moments which I expect will prove fruitful. I appreciate what you have done here.
Thanks very much PJ, I
Thanks very much PJ, I downloaded your "How to make yourself do anything" workshop. It's like nothing else out there. Good work!!! Very interesting! Great audio presentation! Looking forward to your next book; and to using your 10 minute video "pull" technique when I am stuck in my next "spot".
Great video. That's help.
Great video. That's help. Thanks.
3 Steps Are Not New
The first of the 3 steps in this video is discussed in a book by Adam Khan in 1999, called "self help", THIS IS NOTHING NEW
Thanks for the reference!
I've never heard of Adam Khan, I'll have to check it out.
Of course, I did say in the video that nothing about the steps themselves was new, and that's especially true of the first step: I mean geez, EVERYBODY says you should see your end result in mind!
The other two steps are not so commonly mentioned, though, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone put all 3 steps in the same place before; I've only seen 1+2 (in some law of attraction" stuff) and 1+3 (almost exclusively in the work of Robert Fritz and those deriving from him).
Of course, the really important question isn't whether ANY of this is new, it's whether you're USING it to make a difference in your life. Are you?
(If not, it really doesn't matter if it's 10,000 years old... and any interesting built-in features of the brain are probably going to be at least that old, so it's kind of presumptuous to call ANY self-help technique "new"!)
--PJ
Great stuff and thanks for the clean desk!
I can't even remember how I came across this video, but I'm totally impressed. One clean desk later, I'm excited to think about the other ways this technique could be used!
My only problem was the inclusion of "faith" and Napoleon Hill's work in things you termed as rubbish and "nonsense." I just very respectfully disagree. People who would list faith as somehting that's very important to them could take offense. The only reason I even mention it is because you do ask for feedback and opinions, so I know you're looking for negatives (though from where I sit, there's just this one) as well as positives. As someone who loved 99.9 percent of your video, I just wanted to point out the little second that kept it from being a 100 percent. (I've also lumped this together in a paragraph that you're free to edit out before it appears on your blog - after all, you're the only one this feedback is intened for.)
Having said that, I really believe in what you're doing and teaching.
I wish you nothing but the best with your book. You're really onto something amazing and you strike me as one of those people who will have as much success in life as he wants.
I can't wait to show my daughters this video in relation to clean rooms and homework. Oh joy!
Daughters and homework...
Don't bother; one guy already tried that with getting his teenage daughter to clean her room. The catch is that it has to pass the "mmmm" test, so if they don't see anything good about having the room clean or homework done, it won't help. ;-)
(Of course, if they're asking for *help*, then it's a different story.)
Regarding faith, I think it's quite straightforward to establish that the *word* "faith" adds little to the discussion of how to motivate one's self. If somebody says they are motivated by "faith" this only helps another person if that other person means the exact same thing by the word "faith". If the second person thinks of that word differently, then they might struggle indefinitely without any success, and then rightly conclude that "faith" is not helping.
Thus, I prefer to instruct people in the actual process they must follow in their mind, by which they might obtain a result. Then, whatever word they choose to call it by is irrelevant.
But I don't really mind offending people who see "faith" as an answer to things. There are plenty of "faith-based" materials out there in the world for them to read or view, but VERY little available for people who need precision and testability.
Also, concepts like "faith" and "belief" have another flaw besides lacking precision: they are routinely used by the "guilt-trip gurus" to move responsibility from themselves to their clients.
That is, they have a built-in excuse so that if you don't succeed, the guru need only say that your faith obviously isn't strong enough.
This is a shameful excuse for not actually helping people with their problems, and it doesn't matter whether the excuse is made by a shrink with a degree, a guru with an infomercial, or some shaman with a cross and collar.