How to Stay Motivated and Break Free of Fear

Conditioning, conditioning, conditioning. It’s not just a mantra for athletes. To become extremely successful, we must train for the ultimate marathon: the distance of our lives. Just as you can’t sprint a marathon, you can’t do well in life if you don’t know how to stay motivated. Below, I’ll teach you how to stay motivated and break free of fear so you can find long-term success.

Finding the Right Juice

Even if we’re not always at peak level — and there will be times when we’re not — there’s something that’s motivating us, something that’s fueling us. What we’re fueling up with will determine whether or not we go the distance.

Fear as a Motivator

Others are so fearful that there will never be enough money — or that they themselves will never be enough— that the insecurity shifts their focus away from the other areas of life. Their insecurity erodes their physical, mental, and emotional condition.

While fear can be useful when it comes to first getting motivated and helping us to get our butts in gear at the start, fear will not help us understand how to stay motivated. When we’re acting on imaginary pain — pain based on negative conditioning that fuels negative motivations — fear acts more like an obstacle to our happiness than an efficient fuel source.

Joy and Purpose as Motivators

How about joy and purpose as motivations? How about loving what you do? These motivators are not only sustainable, but they inspire you to contribute to something beyond yourself. Good or good?

If you’re not juiced by joy and purpose, it ain’t gonna work. At least, not for the distance anyway. You can get short bursts of success and motivation based on anger or fear, but these create stress. You might win the game financially for a short period of time, but you won’t be rich on a spiritual, emotional, and mental level.

The fact of the matter is, you cannot have enough money to not be angry anymore. Additionally, no amount of money will lessen fear. So change your fuel! We want money and happiness. The only way that can happen is if you’re running on supportive juice, not juice that’s going to lead to a crash and burn.

If you want to make money, come up with motivations that are supportive. There’s always family, obligation, more toys or material things — but what are some motivations that really touch the core of our greatest joys in life? What are some different types of juice that relate to happiness beyond, “I have to do this,” or material comforts? We want to hear from you!

For Your Freedom,

T. Harv Eker