Magic Motivation

Key ideas

 Fear is a distressing emotion caused by anticipation OR awareness

of danger.

 Fear is completely natural and helps people to recognize and

respond to dangerous situations and threats.

 Fear saps your energy, whereas motivation creates energy.

 When you want something and are unable to go after it, it’s often

because your fear is much stronger than your desire.

 People often invalidate their feelings.

 Acknowledge your feelings and then go ahead and do what you

want to do despite the fear.

 It’s a myth that fears stop us.

 Clean fear is experienced when we are facing actual danger.

 Clean fear is appropriate fear.

 Our minds and bodies cannot distinguish between clean (real)

fear and dirty (imagined) fear.

 Dirty fear ignores the facts and embellishes our worries in a toxic

and dramatic way.

 When you believe a fear to be true (even if it’s not) your whole

body reacts accordingly.

 Dirty fear turns you into a victim and you become unmotivated.

 When you experience clean fear you are totally present.

 When your mind is busy with dirty fear you will not be present.

 Clean fear sends you into immediate action. Dirty fear does not.

 You’ll find the more action you take in the face of your imagined

fears, the more those imagined fears diminish.

 The less time you spend on dirty, imagined fears, the more

motivated you will feel about your life.