(This is Part 6 of the series 6 Months to Freedom. Click the following for the preceding parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
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We can have many motivations to succeed such as wanting more time with family and friends, better opportunities to travel the world, or general experiences that your current life hasn’t afforded us. However, the only true motivator to success is one thing and one thing alone.
CONTROL
Not Having Control
Right now, you are reading this because you don’t have control. Sure, you “could” do whatever you wanted in life, but, in reality, you have allowed control to be in the hands of others. Here is why. You might have debt or you might have undesired commitments. These things take control of your life from you and place the power in their metaphorical hands.
One of the major issues with not having control is the mental barriers with getting out of it. Once you have control, you do everything to keep it. However, if you are being controlled, all you want to do is gain control, but you only do everything else that relents a small portion of the pain from being controlled. In other words, when being controlled, you (and I) ignore the exact actions because we feel powerless.
Getting Control
Obtaining control over your own life is difficult if you do not control your fate currently. There is a lot of hard work that needs to be applied to see results. Unfortunately, giving that power up originally leads to such situation.
What you need to do more than anything to start getting more control over your situation and attain the 6 Months to Freedom goal is start taking consistent action towards achieving said goal. If you commit to doing even one thing every day and not waver, you will find more and more barriers falling and levels completed towards the goal completion.
Maintaining Control
Once you start attaining your control over your life, don’t lose it.
When I was saving for my Aussie venture, I had one night where I blew $100 from the fund on drinks on a wild night out. Sure, I had a hell of a time, but I would have had a hell of a time with $40 or even $20. The thing was this set me back about $60 that I typically wouldn’t have spent. I lost a little bit of control. I had to step up my game and be ultra-committed going forward. Instead of even putting myself in the position of blowing that much extra, I just didn’t go out. I needed and wanted to maintain that control.
The importance of maintaining control can only be noticed once it begins to slip from the grasp.
Like stated at the beginning, the only necessary motivator to success is control. Ignore those other “motivators” that are specific to the goal itself. I know this seems counter-intuitive, but focusing on control being the reason for any and all action, you will find nothing else motivates quite like control.
You might also like:
- 6 Months to Freedom: Setting Realistic (& Unrealistic) Benchmarks for Success
- 6 Months to Freedom: Why You Haven’t & How You Can Achieve Freedom
- 6 Months to Freedom: Why You Need to Think 6 Months Out
- 6 Months to Freedom: Ignore Everyone & Commit Everything
- 6 Months to Freedom: What Freedom Is (& Isn’t)
