In life their are two things that control what we do for any reason. The first is PAIN, the things we don’t want to do and the second is PLEASURE the things we do want to do.
Recently I was reading a great book about this subject by Anthony Robbins, “Awaken the Giant Within.” He talks in greater length about this in his book but that entire section made me realize how much pain and pleasure have everything to do with getting you out of debt or being in debt for the rest of your life.
Today’s post is about facing your pain of being in debt to achieve pleasure by becoming debt free.
How Pain And Pleasure Control You And Your Debt
Pain and Pleasure all happen because of one reason, a decision, and that decision either leads you down a road of pleasure or pain. However here is the problem.
We as human beings are geared towards pleasure. Everything we do is to stay away from pain. However is it always the right way to do things?
Although, we are looking for the easy way out especially when it comes to getting out of debt and in the short term things may look good but in the long term we may face some even bigger challenges. Getting debt free is all about associating pain and pleasure the right way.
Here’s a simple example about what I mean.
Lets say you don’t like to brush you teeth because in the morning your to tired or at night before you go to bed you just want to go to bed. Now in the short term you have gained pleasure because your to tired to brush your teeth but in the long term you may cause some even bigger challenges for yourself by not brushing say tooth decay, a root canal, or worse dentures.
So just cause you take the short term pleasure doesn’t mean their will be some long term consequences. Now let me give you an example of how this might happen if your trying to get out of debt.
Lets say you want to put a debt plan together so you can finally get on the right track, but this month you have some unplanned bills coming through and you decide to wait until next month. You literally talk yourself out of it for that month and decide I’ll do it later and then another month goes by and another month till finally you have so much debt that you have to get into a debt counseling program, or a debt negotiation program, or worse file for bankruptcy.
Again you pushed off getting a debt plan together something you could have done on your own and now you need to take more drastic measures. All because you decided in favor of the short term reward and not the long term pleasure.
Does this sound like you?
How To Use Pain And Pleasure To Get Debt Free.
The simplest way to get debt free is changing the way you associate pain and pleasure. For example if associate just trying to forget about your debt problems that mean you are associating pleasure for not setting up your debt plan.
However if you would associate thoughts of, ”if I don’t setup my own debt plan now I will have to go into a debt negotiation plan or worse bankruptcy,” you would associate pain with not setting up the debt plan and do it immediately. Then every time you think it’s a pain to get out of debt you can think of the long term pain it would cause you.
Though this may come at a great cost to you. Sometimes before most people take action is when it’s to late. It’s finally come to the point that you must do something or their will be a big price to pay, say foreclosure or bankruptcy. The pain has dramatically increased and now you need to do something or else. The pleasure of putting it off is not their anymore. This is when most people decide to act however you don’t have to wait till it comes to this.
So you might be asking how get started?
Their are plenty of ways to do so but finding an inspiring and moving way would be the best. For example if you know someone or people who’s in bankruptcy or even better homeless visit them and think about how life would be if you didn’t get your act together. Seeing someone going though this kind of pain can have a huge effect.
I once heard of a guy who didn’t want his kids to do drugs and wanted them to learn why they shouldn’t take drugs and the effects they can have on you. So he knew of a place where they rehabilitated drug attics and decided take his kids on a tour of the place. The sites were unspeakable. Though terrible it worked. The children’s fear was permanently ingrained in their thoughts and every time someone tried to offer them drugs the images of those people going through rehabilitation came to mind.
The mind is a powerful force. In the end setting up a debt plan may cause you to endure a little pain but it’s minimal to the pain you could potentially face down the road by just giving up a little pleasure now.
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An interesting read – some good tips here
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