Boost Your Motivation with Dopamine- Thomas DeLauer

In this video, I talk about how the use of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, can get you motivated and how by simply setting small goals for yourself, you can harness the power of your body's natural dopamine.

If you utilize small goal setting properly, you an increase your business, increase your sex drive, and most of all increase your motivation to be the best that you can be in just about everything. Whether you're looking to uncover that six pack, or just looking for a little extra motivation from day to day, these simple tricks to boost your motivation with dopamine will revolutionize your life, day by day.

[1:00] People will tell you that dopamine is the feel good hormone but dopamine is a neurotransmitter, not a hormone. It's also not the feel good hormone, it's really your body's reward system.

It's Thomas DeLauer with OptimizeCEO and let's dive in to exactly how dopamine works and how you can capitalize on it.

We hear about dopamine a lot. Probably because of the street drug, cocaine. We here about how cocaine will increase dopamine, which gives your body that sense of reward, it likes the drug so you crave it more. You want to go back and you want to have more of the drug because it's telling your body, "Hey, this feels good." It's triggering the release of dopamine and triggering your body's reward system.

If we break it down on a day to day level, with how dopamine is released and what happens, it can give someone a really good insight into how dopamine works.

If you were, right now, to reach out and grab a door knob, and that door knob was suddenly gone, and you just reached out and you touched nothing, it would feel kind of weird, right? All your proprioceptors and everything are telling you that's it time to touch that door knob, but the door knob's gone.

Your brain doesn't really get the feedback so the dopamine doesn't really get released because it's not getting that stimulus; it's not getting that reward.

This is happening all the time throughout the day. It's happening when we have the effective completion of a sentence. It's happening when we have effective communication. It's happening when we touch our cells in our hand. It happens when we touch our head because we're preparing for our bodies. We're preparing for movement and we're preparing for an action and reaction

[2:00]. We're constantly having this feedback system with dopamine.

What that tells us is that our bodies and our brains are goal-oriented. We hear a lot ... I talk a lot about writing your goals down, setting your goals, and giving yourself something tangible to work towards. The reason that I wanted to do this video was to give you a reason from a science standpoint, from a neurotransmitter standpoint, on why setting goals and how actually writing things down and working towards a reward can you make you a more positive and motivated person.

If you write down small micro-rewards, so write down small micro-things that you really need to reach. Let's say you want to eat six clean meals one day, or you want to get to the gym by a certain time, write that goal down and embed it in your mind so that when you reach that goal, your brain triggers the reward system and you want to do it again. If you successfully walk through that door at 7:00A.M. to the gym like you set and you wrote down, your brain is going to get that surge of dopamine. You're going to get that reward system.

Then from there, your body sort of steamrolls in this effect. The more dopamine that you produce, the more dopamine that wants to be produced later on. You get this constant influx of motivation. It's why some people are more hardwired to be motivated than others. A lot of it comes down to how you've conditioned yourself.

Don't just write down your big goals. You need to write down your micro-goals so that you're conditioning those neuropathways. It's the path of least resistance for your mind to trigger motivation. You're basically convincing your body to become hardwired to be motivated. This is going to change how you look at business, it's going to change how you look at your fitness, and it's going to change how you perceive your family, and how motivated you are to be the best version of yourself.

I encourage you to try it out and try it out in all walks of your life. Try it out in fitness, try it out in business, try it out in the kitchen, and try it out on even the most micro-small things that you can possibly think of

[4:00]. Just condition yourself to be motivated. Take the steps

[denisehughes]

I don’t know that this guy made his point crystal clear. However, I use this technique a lot, especially since I’ve gotten older, and seem to haves less natural motivation. I will tell myself to just wash one pot . . . and the dopamine release from washing that one pot will motivate me to wash more of the dishes and often ALL of them. That’s the most common example I can think of, however, this will work for anything. Sometimes I notice on my list of things to get done that I’m never getting a particular thing done. Well, I will simply change that item to one VERY small step toward the goal and then I will find myself doing more than I had anticipated, because of the dopamine boost from the initial simple step completion, and often completing the whole task :)

[BC-wfyg]

Summary of video : setting very small goals (micro goals) will boost dopeamine making you more motivated

Micro goal to do list example:
Wake up ☑️
Pee ☑️
Brush teeth ☑️
Write 1 thing you are greatful for in your gratitude journal ☑️
Do 10 push ups ☑️
Get 2 mins of sunlight ☑️

(This is my morning micro goal to do list and it has helped me a lot)

[FeelingShred]

Two things that changed my life forever: being in a situation where I had to fast for 4 days (a silly event that turned out for good) and another time where I spent almost 4 days without electricity because of a storm that destroyed everything. Taught me a few things about stimulus, dopamine and feeling contempt for what I have in the moment.

[katherinegreen]

So...all my years of being addicted to weed were rewarding my brain....and now i should reward it with something else...like goals...small ones at fist like...done my yoga today...cooked a healthy meal today...cleaned my house today...over time my dopamine levels will be pleased and satisfied??

[stevenbrown]

I know this is an old video but thank you. This works. I've been doing it from a 20minute pov eg. I will write two or three 20 minute goals e.g work out 20 mins, read 20 mins. Ect.ect. it's making me really productive. I know you're probs thinking 20 mins exercise isn't that big but for a person that never works out for me it is.

[momotahmasbi]

You know what? This has been your best video! I've been using this technique since I was a high school student. In fact, I had to write things down since I was too forgetful. I'm glad that I had this situation since by tackling it, I achieved more than those who were "OK" and hence did not write down their goals.

[SGCXD]

This goes right along with people suffering from ADD type working memory issues. You need to externalize things you need to remember to do.

[thekynologist]

As my handle denotes, I’m a professional dog trainer-behaviorist, and I found this to be one of the more important and valuable videos on YT for those in my vocational community, professional or worthy dog owners!! So appreciate it! Thanks!

[ahmialtaay]

Making a calendar and following up with the tasks has changed my life to the better! Thank you

[mayharmon]

Personally, I have found to-do list apps very effective, for the reason described here. It's satisfying to check something off. Having many of my repeating tasks generate automatically (and adding irregulars) is a big part of it; it makes the list fairly easy to maintain and ensures that I'm able to "mark off" many things that I really do need to do anyway. I have picked up some good habits this way.

[lorraineacosta]

Your awesome!!! Yes I agree writing down goals is so key!! There are times I feel overwhelmed I don’t know where to start so I won’t even start and I’ll end not doing anything😭

[marywolfe]

a hug from all those muscles would increase dopamine

[TrishTruitt]

Again, you hit the nail on the head. This makes so much sense. All the other vids just say "make goals" but your 'micro goals' strategy is like training your dopamine muscles with smaller weights to get it going so you can build up the mechanism. I've also found Rhodiola Rosea to be very helpful.

[niceguystat]

I love how your videos just really make sense and apply to everyday life!

[Delaina]

Everytime I hear to begin taking a certain vitamin you have a video on it. This is why I love ya!!!!

[ScreamMode]

this is what those motivational speakers do, they teach you to change your perspective to rewarding yourself. this can be through hitting goals you set and never saying 'I can't' without overwhelming odds of failure, or high stakes for failure.

it's psychological training and strengthening a mindset. however it isn't a cure for depression, you'll need to do some out of character exploration for that.

[tesev]

God bless you Thomas, this is the best advice I've ever had

[TejenderPrasad]

Thanks A Lot Thomas, This Video Is Really Motivating me . THANK YOU . I'm so grateful

[RhiWildeupgrade]

Thank you! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for and I'm so psyched to use it to my advantage!

[andyandersonrealtororlando]

Thank YOU for having a great video that offers ACTUAL VALUE and not trying to SELL ME something!- and for that, I will trust and subscribe!- finally an honest person who seems like they KNOW what they are talking about and not a sales gimmick!