From Goal-Setter to Goal-Getter

What is your lofty goalthat thing you really want to do but can never seem to get to? Maybe you want to write a book, learn a foreign language, or start your own business. You have the best of intentions, but when you look back on your day, you didn’t take a single step toward that goal. Sound familiar?

We are all prone to procrastinate at times. In fact, there is actually brain science behind procrastination and a lack of motivation. But, there is a big difference between the goal-setters and the goal-getters, we have science-based strategies to change the neurochemistry in the brain that turns dreamers into doers. 

The secret is dopamine. Dopamine is commonly associated with addiction as the “pleasure and reward” drug; we release it when we get something satisfying. Often called the “seeking” chemical, it’s what makes us seek out sex, drugs, chocolate, shopping – whatever the vice. But, the latest scientific evidences hows that dopamine is actually released in anticipation of the pleasure rather than as a result of it. We remember “that good thing” and, in anticipation, dopamine encourages us to act to achieve something good or to avoid something bad. In fact, dopamine has more to do with motivation and cost/benefit analyses than pleasure itself. As complex as the brain is, it’s amazingly simple to get the dopamine flowing.

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Check out my recent article published on BizCatalyst360  to learn more about how dopamine  influences our motivation and seven simple brain hacks to turn your goal setter into a goal getter!

 

 

 

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