Making the Essential Enjoyable & Easy
Making Monday
I've heard it said that how we feel on Mondays is one of the clearest indicators of life satisfaction. Here is a quick thought on how to make Monday—and every day—work better...
Toward & Away
We move toward things we want and away from things we don't.
We want more health and less sickness, more connection and less alienation, more success and less failure.
Both drives—toward and away—serve our best interests and can be harnessed for our benefit.
But we get stuck.
We want to move away from something draining or untenable or that forebodes a negative outcome…
And want to move toward something more satisfying, fulfilling, and healthy.
But we struggle to get started and stick with actions necessary for bringing about such change.
Most personal development guidance contexts this as a motivation issue, which I don't find terribly helpful. Getting fired up or generating enthusiasm are ephemeral solutions, playing at the surface.
Toward and away drives run far deeper than mere motivation when we truly connect to them.
We are built from the DNA up to want more of what we want and less of what we don't. These are primal impulses on par with hunger and thirst—survival adaptations perfected over millions of years.
So rather than trying to “get motivated,” we can locate this primal drive that recruits body and mind as if life depends upon it.
Which I believe it does.
Embracing what we most deeply want—and don't—channels and strengthens life force itself.
It's the key to foundational health.
It taps the energetic core of what we truly are and why we are here.
It activates every possible resource we have available.
And reveals some we didn't know we had.
I'll take a clear connection to that over motivation any day.
Together, let's end the fight to change…
Delmar
