Consistency is the key!
Some fascinating stuff I learned about human brain from one of my great mentors. Read on.
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This is a close up picture of what happens step by step in the brain when we want to change a habit or achieve a goal.🎯
Brain has two priorities above anything else:
Securing our safety and saving energy.
Imagine we want to loose weight or quit drinking or smoking 🚬
Here is what is happening:
1- Safety first: Safety really means avoiding pain 😨😰
We have a reason to achieve our goal and we are so happy and excited at first. The brain releases oxytocin, adrenaline and serotonin, happiness hormones.
But wait, another part of the brain intervenes to avoid possible pains caused from the goal. 🥺🥺🙄
It might be the pain of failure. We think what would I feel if I fail! So, the fear of failure, fear of disappointment or ridicule is what our brain wants to avoid.
So, what does cause fear? Self doubt is the precursor to fear! And what cause self doubt? The lack of knowledge causes self doubt. We have self-doubt because we feel we don't know how to do. Self-doubt triggers the deactivation of our motivation center in the brain! Now,the brain in fear releases cortisol and epinphrine and norepinephrine. 👹😈🙀😱
Darn, and we don't go to the gym or go for the next glass of wine or the cigarette!😩😩😩
Our limiting beliefs deactivate our motivation center in the brain. Those hidden limiting beliefs will put a break on the achievement of the goal.
So, we have to manage this part of the brain that is trying to avoid the pain. We need a game plan to mitigate this issue that everyone naturally has.
2- Save the energy: The other priority of the brain is energy conservation. The patterns of the old habits need a lot of energy to change and the brain doesn't want to consume energy. So, when we want to loose weight we need to have the habits already to for the brain to support it because the brain doesn't want to spend energy to override those old habits.
So goal setting is easy but goal achieving is hard. Setting goals happens in the conscious ( we decide to do it) and achieving goals happen in the subconscious. 🎯🎯🎯
Now we know why some goals can not be achieved quickly and take so much time and struggle to finally be achieved.
Through learning skills and consistency, the brain finally looses the grip and let the new habit or change happen.⌛️⌛️⌛️
Consistency is the key to achieving goal.👊
🧠🧠🧠
This is a close up picture of what happens step by step in the brain when we want to change a habit or achieve a goal.🎯
Brain has two priorities above anything else:
Securing our safety and saving energy.
Imagine we want to loose weight or quit drinking or smoking 🚬
Here is what is happening:
1- Safety first: Safety really means avoiding pain 😨😰
We have a reason to achieve our goal and we are so happy and excited at first. The brain releases oxytocin, adrenaline and serotonin, happiness hormones.
But wait, another part of the brain intervenes to avoid possible pains caused from the goal. 🥺🥺🙄
It might be the pain of failure. We think what would I feel if I fail! So, the fear of failure, fear of disappointment or ridicule is what our brain wants to avoid.
So, what does cause fear? Self doubt is the precursor to fear! And what cause self doubt? The lack of knowledge causes self doubt. We have self-doubt because we feel we don't know how to do. Self-doubt triggers the deactivation of our motivation center in the brain! Now,the brain in fear releases cortisol and epinphrine and norepinephrine. 👹😈🙀😱
Darn, and we don't go to the gym or go for the next glass of wine or the cigarette!😩😩😩
Our limiting beliefs deactivate our motivation center in the brain. Those hidden limiting beliefs will put a break on the achievement of the goal.
So, we have to manage this part of the brain that is trying to avoid the pain. We need a game plan to mitigate this issue that everyone naturally has.
2- Save the energy: The other priority of the brain is energy conservation. The patterns of the old habits need a lot of energy to change and the brain doesn't want to consume energy. So, when we want to loose weight we need to have the habits already to for the brain to support it because the brain doesn't want to spend energy to override those old habits.
So goal setting is easy but goal achieving is hard. Setting goals happens in the conscious ( we decide to do it) and achieving goals happen in the subconscious. 🎯🎯🎯
Now we know why some goals can not be achieved quickly and take so much time and struggle to finally be achieved.
Through learning skills and consistency, the brain finally looses the grip and let the new habit or change happen.⌛️⌛️⌛️
Consistency is the key to achieving goal.👊