I think this is a fantastic method. What’s more, you may be able to do it without the messy work of having to continually remind yourself.
Just find a way of expressing what you really want, or what you feel like you need to keep reminding yourself of, in a single sentence. Do it in a way that RESONATES with you—every time you read it it should motivate you to get off your ass and go do whatever it tells you. It doesn’t necessarily have to be written by you, just express your desire. Example: I use the famous Fight Club quote “This is your life, and it’s ending one second at a time”.
Then just write (or print) this on a piece of paper, big enough to read, and tape it somewhere you’ll see it all the time. Essentially a motivational poster, but with content that actually IS motivational (because you picked it out), not just an eagle flying over a mountain with the word “integrity” under it.
Instead of having to remind yourself constantly, the piece of paper will do that work for you. But I’m guessing the mechanism at work is the same—the message seeps slowly into your subconscious, influencing your thoughts so that, eventually, you don’t need reminding. If it works at all for you like it did for me, every single thought you have, every action you take will be thought of in terms of this goal or desire (so it’s important to pick a good one). You don’t need to, for example, force yourself to read instead of watching tv—watching tv will feel so wrong that you will be repelled from it.
In essence, instead of trying to fight your subconscious desires, change them and use them to your advantage.
I taped my resolution to my wall, and used a green dry erase marker to write LW on it, to remind me to be “less wrong” and follow the damn resolution Why a green LW? Well, on my bookmarks toolbar in Chrome, the symbol for the website is a green LW. I think I need to change my computer’s wallpaper to something suitable, since that is on of my primary distractions.
I think this is a fantastic method. What’s more, you may be able to do it without the messy work of having to continually remind yourself.
Just find a way of expressing what you really want, or what you feel like you need to keep reminding yourself of, in a single sentence. Do it in a way that RESONATES with you—every time you read it it should motivate you to get off your ass and go do whatever it tells you. It doesn’t necessarily have to be written by you, just express your desire. Example: I use the famous Fight Club quote “This is your life, and it’s ending one second at a time”.
Then just write (or print) this on a piece of paper, big enough to read, and tape it somewhere you’ll see it all the time. Essentially a motivational poster, but with content that actually IS motivational (because you picked it out), not just an eagle flying over a mountain with the word “integrity” under it.
Instead of having to remind yourself constantly, the piece of paper will do that work for you. But I’m guessing the mechanism at work is the same—the message seeps slowly into your subconscious, influencing your thoughts so that, eventually, you don’t need reminding. If it works at all for you like it did for me, every single thought you have, every action you take will be thought of in terms of this goal or desire (so it’s important to pick a good one). You don’t need to, for example, force yourself to read instead of watching tv—watching tv will feel so wrong that you will be repelled from it.
In essence, instead of trying to fight your subconscious desires, change them and use them to your advantage.
I taped my resolution to my wall, and used a green dry erase marker to write LW on it, to remind me to be “less wrong” and follow the damn resolution Why a green LW? Well, on my bookmarks toolbar in Chrome, the symbol for the website is a green LW. I think I need to change my computer’s wallpaper to something suitable, since that is on of my primary distractions.