The 125 Principles of Infinite Motivation and Anti-Procrastination, Part 1: Be motivated, defeat procrastination, be disciplined, be mentally strong, productive, effective with psychology: The 125 Principles of Infinite Motivation and Anti-Procrastination, #1

By Cris Eyza

This book (Part 1) is about how you deal with yourself effectively.
If you are motivated, you won't procrastinate. Therefore, the secret is how to become motivated and how to stay motivated.
Internalize these 62 principles. There is always at least one principle that you can apply when you find yourself facing procrastination, lack of motivation, or lack of direction.
Motivating yourself will become easier and less stressful than before – which will feel like a miracle! You will experience a big change in your daily life.
There are more extremely powerful principles in Part 2!

• Language: English
• Publisher: CrisEyza
• Release date: Jul 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223342809

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The 125 Principles of Infinite Motivation

and Anti-Procrastination

Part 1

By Cris Eyza

Contents

Introduction

1 The WHY

2 Emotion vs. Ratio: A Stoic Misconception

3 Competition

4 Virtual Circle

5 Mind Shaping

6 Get Busy

7 The Carrot

8 Air and Success

9 Necessity and Fear

10 What motivates Joe Rogan?

11 Find Your Weaknesses, Then Improve

12 Preservation of Identity

13 Superiority-Inferiority Complex

14 Believe in Result

15 Standards: Stop Being Satisfied

16 Sleep for Will Power and Concentration

17 Liquid Will Power

18 Take Breaks! Don’t Crash

19 Something is Better Than Nothing

20 Be a Tough Character

21 Create Clarity to Keep Laziness Out

22 Give It Your All, Because It May Not Be Enough

23 Anti-Vision

24 You are Late to the Game

25 Your Back Against the Wall

26 Segmentation

27 Sub-Minds: The Planner and the Do’er

28 SMART

29 People Less Intelligent than You Are Successful

30 Easy

31 The Stripper and His Crazy Six Pack-Method

32 One Goal which Solves all Your Problems

33 Perfectionism Leads to Paralysis

34 Zone of Proximal Development

35 What motivated Jay Z?

36 Switching Costs

37 Deny Something You Want

38 Productive Momentum is Green

39 Now Is Actually Easy

40 Optimism over Realism

41 Two Kinds of Pain

42 Quick Gratitude Exercise

43 Be Aware of Your Freudian Subsystems

44 The Dream of Doing Nothing

45 Don’t Try to Not Fail

46 I Get To

47 Help Others

48 Physical Trophy

49 Your Struggle is Heroic and Noble

50 Take on Responsibilities

51 More is More

52 Why We Love Video Games

53 Accountability Partner

54 Characteristics of a Good Accountability Coach

55 Mark Manson’s Advice

56 Constant Crisis is the Goal

57 The Venom Is In The Tail

58 Love For a Field

59 Long-Term Pleasure

60 Take on Challenges that Scare You

61 Forward Momentum

62 Share Your Goals Publicly?

Introduction

This book is about how you deal with yourself.

Originally, when I started this project, I had only 10 principles of motivation. Then, I started collecting each new principle I found, either on the internet, in conversations with other people or in my own daily life. Now, I have 125 principles! These principles have been tremendously helpful.

If you are motivated, you won’t procrastinate. Therefore, the secret is how to become motivated (again), and how to stay motivated. That is what this book is about.

Get familiar with the principles. There is always at least one principle that you can apply when you find yourself facing procrastination, lack of motivation, or lack of direction.

Writing this book and internalizing it has helped me to deal with myself better. When I have to motivate myself, it is easier and less stressful than before – which feels like a miracle to me. I really feel a big change in my daily life.

1 The WHY

Motivation needs a reason, many reasons.

What I noticed is that during some periods of my life, I was very successful, motivated and disciplined, whereas in other phases, I felt lazy and without direction.

Was I a bad person? Was I doomed to be a failure for the rest of my life?

Or was there an explanation for the fact that, during some periods of my life, I had been super motivated and other times super lazy? I started remembering and analyzing what had been different.

I found that it wasn’t that I had become a lazy person per se, but that discipline, motivation and productivity were the conclusion of an argument and that my premises were inefficient.

In logic, premises lead to a conclusion.

For example:

Premise 1: Alice lives in Toronto.

Premise 2: Toronto is in Canada.

Conclusion: Alice lives in Canada.

(Source: Simplicable)

Your motivation to do something is just like a logical argument. If your premises (reasons to be motivated) are chosen well, motivation will automatically be born.

Nietzsche summarized it like this:

If there is a why, there will be a how.

Whenever I lack motivation, it is because of something. There is a reason.

Maybe I feel that the task doesn’t matter.

Maybe I feel that I don’t know how to do it.

Maybe I feel that I don’t know clearly which steps to take.

Maybe I feel that the task is very difficult.

Maybe I feel that a positive result from the task is very unlikely.

When you lack motivation, go searching in your own mind for what is holding you back from motivation.

As soon as you clearly know what limiting belief is holding you back from jumping into action, restructure that limiting belief into a motivating belief. Watch how you become motivated and active!

The same is done in movie exorcisms, remember? The priest tries to find out the name of the demon possessing its victim. As soon as the priest has the name of the demon, the demon loses its power, and the priest can exorcise it.

2 Emotion vs. Ratio: A Stoic Misconception

You have to align your emotions and your ratio to stay motivated.

Emotions and ratio are often juxtaposed.

Supposedly, you need to turn off your emotions and become like a robot.

And believe me, I tried this! I was cold and aggressive towards myself, out of desperation to become motivated, productive and successful. I tried to be without joy and sadness.

Then I read the following in a psychology book: in reality, feeling emotionless is often a symptom of mental health problems and depression.

If you look at the brain, the ratio is in the frontal cortex and the emotions are in the rest of the