Have you ever wondered why you keep losing motivation about halfway into every new thing you start? I just realized most of us use the wrong fuel, and it’s the reason we quit. This pain vs. desire pattern is the secret fuel for your motivation that, once understood, changes everything. It’s not because you’re not working hard enough or because you don’t want it enough; it’s simply because you’re using the wrong type of motivational fuel.
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If you haven’t seen me before, my name’s Aarun and I work with conscious entrepreneurs, healers, coaches, and individuals to help them rewire their mindsets and master their energetics to create a life that they love or a purpose-driven business.
The Two Types of Motivational Fuel
For most people, there are two types of fuel for motivation. The first, and most common, is the fuel that comes from wanting to leave behind everything you don’t want anymore. This includes the lack, the constriction, the frustration, and the pain of limitation. It represents the negative, unpleasant parts of your current or past experience that you’re desperate to move away from.
Think of your old reality as a burning house. If your house was on fire, you would instantly have the motivation to get up and leave it behind. You’d then have the motivation to go and build a new house for yourself. This is pain-based motivation, and it’s where most people start.
The other type of motivation is the new house itself. It’s the desire to create the next thing… the expansion of your business, the healthy and fit body, or whatever goal you are setting. This is desire-based motivation. However, as human beings, we’re hardwired to react faster to pain than we are to desire, a tendency that society often reinforces.
Why Pain-Based Motivation Fails Halfway
When you start a new journey, your motivation is high because it’s coming from that “burning house.” You put in the work for a few days, you grind, you hustle, and you move forward. You get about halfway down the road to your destination.
But at this point, you start running out of fuel from the burning house because you’re not in it anymore. The motivation from past pain gets weaker the farther you get from it. Eventually, you start running out of fuel completely. You hit a brick wall, your motivation vanishes, and you assume you’ve hit some kind of blockage.
Shifting Gears to the Real Secret Fuel for Your Motivation
In reality, what you need is to know how to shift gears and connect to your other motivation fuel tank… the one filled with desire. The closer you get to your goal, the more fuel you can draw from your desire-based motivation. It’s a complete reversal of the initial dynamic.
I want this to really stick for you, so I encourage you to anchor this into your mindset.
My desire is my motivation.
Creating this shift in how you view motivation will change everything. If you can stop connecting your motivation to the pain-based need to escape the past and instead connect 100% of it to the fuel of desire, you will achieve your goals faster than anyone else.
The Unseen Advantages of Desire-Based Fuel
Almost nobody operates and thinks this way. But when you start to train your mind and body to respond to your desire, your mind begins to open doors of possibility. You start thinking in terms of what you actually want to create instead of the limitations of the past. This shift in focus opens up your perception, allowing you to see opportunities that no one else is going to see.
You can use this powerful principle to unlock your niche in business, discover new opportunities, and shift your relationships. You can even use it to change your weight, your health, and other aspects of your physical body. When you change the type of fuel you’re using for your motivation, the speed at which you move towards your goals will dramatically increase. Using desire-based fuel will magnetize you right into the life you love.
Embodying the Shift and Mastering Your Energy
Now you’re ready to actually embody that shift. What helped me do this was learning to expand and master my 13 chakra system, which recreated a new structure for how motivational energy flows through me. This fuels an entirely different path in life as you move forward. If you want to dive into restructuring the 13 chakra system as a container for your motivation and life force, you might be interested in the training I’m doing. You can learn more about the Ignite Your 13 Chakra Blueprint event and check the schedule for the next class on the registration page.
