Mad Dog or Pot of Gold?

NLP ( Neuro-linguistic Programming ) talks about two important elements in goal setting. One is the Moving towards and the other is the Moving away.

Imagine a 100-meter running race. Let us say an average person can run the 100 meters in say, 25 seconds ( it is just a guess friends ). What can be done to motivate him to run faster…? One way is to keep a pot of gold at the winning line. Now he can run faster, may be cover the distance in 20 seconds.

the second way would be, to make a mad dog ( a drooling mad dog ) chase him… He would run really fast, and may be cover the distance in, say, 15 seconds.
This pot of gold and the mad dog are metaphors for two designing principles in our life. One is the Pleasure principle ( the pot of Gold ) and the other is the Pain principle ( the mad dog ).
There is great value in both these elements. while we work hard and put in effort to get what we don’t want, we also spend more energy and effort in avoiding things that we don’t want. Both are parts of living and life.
But there is an important distinction that we need to make note of. While running towards a pot of gold can help us get that, running away from a mad dog can make us run anywhere, and in the process, we may end up with a Tiger.While the mad dog gives us motivation the pot of gold gives us direction. And the right balance between the mad dog and the pot of gold can make us really effective.
This healthy balance between the moving towards ( pot of gold ) and the moving away ( mad dog ) helps us stay committed to the project and at the same time be unmindful of the any pain associated with the process.

We don’t mind standing in the queue for a long time, for getting the ticket to a cricket match in which our favorite team is playing or for the first day first show experience of favorite hero’s movie.
When we move towards something, the decision making also becomes easy. Because if you don’t know, where to go, which bus will you board?
So one question that we can choose to ask ourselves is : while I want to move away from certain things in my life, am I clear about what is that I really want…
If we don’t know what we want, we might get stuck with what we don’t want…

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