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The Greatest Motivational Force You Can Possibly Harness to Help You Achieve Your Goals
It’s certainly also one of the most positive
When I finished reading my 975th book, I felt way more motivated to read than I ever had before, and that’s because I had tapped into this one source of motivation that can also help launch you towards your biggest goals as well.
Plenty of people have these big ideas of what they want to do, the kinds of results they want to produce in their own life, but they’re so far away from accomplishing them that they are demotivating themselves in a way that’s just…awful.
They’re stalling their own progress before they really even begin.
It’s progress that is one of the most motivating forces one could ever tap into, but most people aren’t experiencing its full power, for reasons that I’ll explain here.
In my reading example, my original goal was to read 1,000 books before I turned 30. I failed, by the way — I finished my 1,000th book around the time of my 31st birthday.
But in the beginning, when I was so much further away from my goal, I wasn’t nearly as motivated as I became when I read Book #975 (I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson), when I realized that accomplishing my goal was within striking distance.
