I wonder if things get lost in the haze because I don’t have a current list of my goals written out. In other words, I forget what I’m aiming for, because I get sidetracked and perhaps that’s how things get lost when life gets busy.

For example I know as kid when I had no other responsibilities I never forgot to get my backside up to the local flying club and hang around the pilots and light aircraft – I loved to fly and thoughts of flying consumed my youth. I was motivated and had nothing to stop me following up on that motivation.

This is fun!

It’s interesting that you mention about seeing a clear picture. Have you tried to generate the sounds associated or the feelings of motivation without the pictures? It may be that you’re not a visual person in which case you’re doing it arse about face!

@ Dave – You too are talking about pictures and I could have some real fun doing the submodality exercise with you if you were here. You have Know Yourself – Change Yourself, check out that section and then go and take control of what’s inside your head. If stuff is genuinely getting lost in a haze then that is easily correctable. After all, it’s your head, you can do what the hell you want inside it ;-)

I get motivated but I can’t figure out why I can’t hold onto what really did feel like genuine motivation at the start.

Maybe Tim is right, perhaps I’m mistakig motivation for enthusiasm?

I guess it’s a whole lot easier to do something, when you have the fear of serious illness or dying motivating you, or you had a huge reward dangling in front of your nose.

Fascinating thing this motivation lark.