>> Post Awesome Pics & Quotes: Motivation/inspiration - *PART 2!!* <<

[BulkinHulkin]

New Zhasni

[RyouBakua]

[RyouBakua]

be good to others

[feardafronfz3]

[area64yo]

be good to others

Angry grandpa video

Can't hold all these feels. Good video.


The best repost in this thread:

[nilekyle]

work while you wait

[BulkinHulkin]

Animal always take it to the next level

[mh90]

Hi Brahs,

If you're like me and walk 20-30 minutes to the gym, you might like this; I've just got a bunch of videos here that I liked, converted to mp3 and stuck together, oh and I normalised the sound. It's about 30min of motivational talk to get you pumped.

https://soundcloud.com/miscer3938/motivation

There should be a download link there too.


Stay safe, we're all gonna make it.

[Ricky_k]

Hi Brahs,

If you're like me and walk 20-30 minutes to the gym, you might like this; I've just got a bunch of videos here that I liked, converted to mp3 and stuck together, oh and I normalised the sound. It's about 30min of motivational talk to get you pumped.

https://soundcloud.com/miscer3938/motivation

There should be a download link there too.


Stay safe, we're all gonna make it.

MP3 MOTIVATIONAL AUDIO PACK

http://boyunderthebridge.com/2013/12...ational-audio/

Say thanks with a follow of my Instagram & FB pages in my sig

[chacha15]

[nilekyle]

"I remastered it and remastered it, in hopes that one day my training ability collided with an opportunity to show it off." - Greg Plitt

[Digital.god]

All these youtube motivation videos become nothing but mental masturbation. Seems like everyone that has something to say makes a video out of it. Annoying.

[wub2028]

Man quits his job that he loved to ride his bicycle from Oregon to the southern tip of South America.


If you've not read Meditations, then get on it. It's a game changer.


Interview with Rob Krar, ultra runner and owner of a powerful beard




Your life, expressed in jellybeans.

[wub2028]

11 tips on how to reach your goals

1. Stop fantasizing

The biggest enemy of any goal is excessive positive fantasizing. Research on fantasizing in goal-setting shows that positive fantasies are associated with failure to get a job, find a partner, pass an exam or get through surgery. Those whose fantasies were more negative did better. Don't experience the future positively before you achieve it.

2. Start committing

The reason we don't achieve our goals is lack of commitment.

One powerful psychological technique to increase commitment is mental contrasting. This involves entertaining a positive fantasy but then pouring a bucket of cold reality over it (follow this link for the details). It's hard, but research shows people really respond to it.

3. Start starting

You can use the Zeigarnik effect¹ to drag you on towards your goal. A Russian psychologist, Bluma Zeigarnik, noticed that waiters seemed only to remember orders which were in the process of being served. When completed, the orders evaporated from their memory.

What the Zeigarnik effect teaches is that one weapon for beating procrastination is starting somewhere...anywhere. Just taking that first step could be the difference between failure and success. Once you've started, the goal will get lodged in your mind.

4. Visualize process NOT outcome

We're all susceptible to the planning fallacy: that's thinking all will go smoothly when it won't (and hardly ever does). Visualizing the process of reaching your goal, helps focus attention on the steps you need to take. It also helps reduce anxiety.

5. Avoid the what-the-hell effect

When we miss our target, we can fall foul of the what-the-hell-effect. It's best known to dieters who go over their daily calorie limit. Reasoning the target is now gone, they think 'what-the-hell', and start eating too much of all the wrong food.

Goals that are vulnerable to the what-the-hell-effect are generally short-term and inhibitional (when you're trying to stop doing something). The effect can be avoided by setting goals that are long-term and acquisitional. Find out more about the what-the-hell effect.

6. Sidestep procrastination

When goals are difficult and we wonder whether it's really worth it, procrastination can creep up on us. Under these circumstances the key is to forget about the goal and bury yourself in the details. Keep your head down and use self-imposed deadlines (read more on how to avoid procrastination).

7. Shifting focus

You can't keep your head down all the way or you'll get lost. In the long-term, the key to reaching a goal is switching between a focus on the ultimate goal and the task you are currently completing. Research suggests, when evaluating progress, especially on difficult tasks, it's best to stay task-focused. But when tasks are easy or the end is in site, it's better to focus on the ultimate goal (read more on how to shift focus).

8. Reject robotic behavior

Often our behavior is robotic. We do things not because we've really thought about it, but because it's a habit or we're unconsciously copying other people (e.g. Bargh et al., 2001²). This type of behavior can be an enemy of goal striving. Ask yourself whether what you are doing is really getting you closer to your goal.

9. Forget the goal, what's the aim?

Goals should always be set in the service of our overall aims. But there's a dark side to goal setting. When goals are too specific, it's easy to get stuck; when they are too many goals, unimportant, easy ones get prioritised over vital, difficult ones; when they are too short-term, they encourage short-term thinking. Badly set goals reduce motivation and may increase unethical behaviour.

Remember to keep in mind the whole point of the goal in the first place.

10. Know when to stop

Sometimes the problem isn't getting started, it's knowing when to stop. Psychologists have found that sunk costs make us do weird things (Arkes & Blumer, 1985³). 'Sunk costs' refer to the effort or money we've already expended in trying to reach our goal. So, even when our plan is failing, we keep pushing on.

Research shows that the more people invest in a goal, the more they think it will succeed; irrespective of whether it actually will succeed. Know when to change tack or you'll end up flogging a dead horse.

11. If-then plans

What all these studies show is the importance of self-regulation in achieving a goal. Unfortunately, as we all know to our cost, controlling the self can be very hard.

One strategy with plenty of research to back it up is forming 'if-then' plans (Gollwitzer et al., 2006²). You simply work out in advance what you're going to do in a particular situation. Although it sounds simple, we often prefer to wing it, rather than plan. With a little ingenuity, though, if-then plans can be used to surmount the obstacles described above.

Taken from 11 Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything

Further reading

¹The Zeigarnik effect

²The automated will: Nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals.

³The psychology of sunk cost

[nilekyle]

[mcdonaldsmeal]

Has anyone made a training montage from Southpaw yet?

I really enjoyed and Eminems rapid flow went really well with the training, Jake put in some serious training for that movie

[nilekyle]

great motivational story 3:40 - 7:30

[BOOSTEDDUDE]

I really enjoyed this one.

[XooDOWORKooX]

REAL TALK!!!

[nilekyle]

[ThatOneLurker]

[nilekyle]

[HunterMC6]

[RawDogAssassin]

[ThatOneLurker]

[RawDogAssassin]

[BulkinHulkin]

any misc brah got a link to that post where it compares humans as predators and has the pics of animals with eyes in the side of their head? if you know what i mean (its popped up a few times in motivational threads but i cant find it

[Ricky_k]

[BOOSTEDDUDE]

Another good one from the legend. Words of wisdom.

[mortalcyrax]

any misc brah got a link to that post where it compares humans as predators and has the pics of animals with eyes in the side of their head? if you know what i mean (its popped up a few times in motivational threads but i cant find it

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=142948251

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