Step 1

Step one
"BE MORE AWESOME"

Step two
"REPEAT DAILY"




***Warning, I enjoy the term awesome, it's horribly awesome, and you will read that word more than Pauly Shore during a script reading, laugh at it, hate it, I don't care. Awesome? Awesome!***

My day was awesome because I was featured on a local news program and the host told me several times after the taping that the segment was awesome and she really thought there was something great about our interview.

Awesome because I was on contract with a major company and my results from that contract can lead to long term job related success. I did what I needed to do and I plan on presenting my results in the absolute best way possible.

Bragging? Not really, I like to think of it more as conditioning, yes Pavolov, I said conditioning. I didn't tell myself that I was awesome in the segment, the host did. I didn't think how awesome I was doing the job I thought about how awesome the results, if everything was executed properly could be. I'm just reinforcing my beliefs, associating pleasure with the behaviour of being awesome.

I believe that we, as humans (I'm assuming you are a human, if you are not please do not leave spam in my comments section, I don't need granny porn, penis enlargement pills or cheap medication but thanks for stopping by.) are motivated by two things: Pleasure Seeking, Pain Avoidance. We do something because we want to seek the pleasure of doing it (sex, making money, winning the Super Bowl) or we do something to avoid pain (wearing warm clothes in the winter, pay bills, get out of the way of on coming traffic).

If you associate pleasure with working out, feeling good and looking good then you will be more prone to workout than if you associate pain with not working out. Don't believe me? Think of the times you mow down on some oh so tasty unhealthy fast food, mmmmm.... soooo good, pure pleasure. Then what happens? You feel like ass, your guts hurt and bring on the pain. "I'm never doing this again, no more baconators for me!" A few weeks later the Baconator shows up on your lunch tray, mmmmm..... bacony goodness. Final score? Pleasure 2, Pain 0.
So my first goal is to establish pleasure with everything. Eliminate pain? nope not at all, I don't think that this is even possible. I simply readjust my view. How can I turn PAIN into PLEASURE? It's all about perspective. So if I can condition myself to look at the pleasure of not eating a cheeseburger - feeling better, feeling I made a smart choice, I'll look better, I'll be healthier. All of a sudden that decision is easier. Final score? Pleasure 2, Pain 0 but this time pleasure comes in the form of a chicken breast and some veggies.

It seems that Pleasure seeking makes us feel great, Pain avoidance sucks our energy, it requires effort and the reward is not as good.

Would you rather comment on this blog post if you got a $5 reward or because if you don't I will punch you?