How to Stay Motivated for the Rest of Your Life?
19 January 2009
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Just as willpower is essential for success, discouragement and lack of motivation may at some point prevent you from achieving your goals. It is up to you, and you alone, to find techniques to rekindle your inner fire.
It helps to have goals you can visualize. Whatever your goal, make it visual. This could be something like a car, or a vacation. Take a picture or cut one out of a magazine and put it in a prominent place, at work or at home, where you see it often. So that when you feel discouraged, this image will remind you of your goal and help you stay focused.
It's a contract with yourself. According to motivation research, people who write to-do lists are much more likely to achieve their goals than those who just keep a mental list. When you write something down, it somehow makes it more powerful psychologically. This explains why in some cultures, or in most cultures, great importance is given to honoring contracts.
In a contract, you can also include a special reward you will give yourself when you have completed the task. After all, everyone likes to be rewarded for a job well done. Just telling someone they've done a good job or saying thank you is enough to give them an extra boost to continue, but unfortunately this isn't always the case, you don't always have someone on hand. So you will have to find a way to find this encouragement on your own by pleasing yourself.
There are negative people who will belittle you and weaken your self-esteem. Eliminate these negative people from your life. Surround yourself with positive people. Follow their example. Smile as much as possible and have joyful thoughts. These people will give you a better, clearer vision of what you really want, and your mind will be clear enough to know what steps to take to achieve it.
Rather than waiting for things to happen, be proactive and make things happen. Inactivity softens the brain and slows down your potential to achieve your goals.
Read inspirational books or documents. They will help you improve your attitude and heal your mind. A book of success stories should also help encourage you. You will not only learn from the experiences of others, gain confidence, and get more ideas, but the story will also help you motivate yourself towards your goal and pursue your plans.
If that's not enough, take training courses. It often happens that not knowing how or where to start leads to frustration. Knowledge is power. If you clearly understand how and where to start, you will feel much more powerful, and this will give you more strength to succeed in the goal you set for yourself and to stick to it.
If, despite all this advice for achieving self-motivation, you feel that you still lack inner resources, that the energy is not yet on its way, there is one last thing you must try. Whatever you wanted to do, try to do or accomplish, go for it! Say it out loud and go for it! It's by doing it that you will solve the problem of motivation. By forcing yourself to do it, your energy will gradually build up as you work, and without you realizing it, you will have finished the task you set for yourself and you will have accomplished your goal.
Divide and conquer is the key. Break down this seemingly unattainable activity into small, easy-to-accomplish steps. It's not only less intimidating, but seeing the intermediate results will reinforce your confidence that it can be done.
Lack of motivation happens to us all, but if you don't encourage yourself to accept opportunities and be challenged, no one else will. It's important to keep your eye on the prize, find ways to keep going, and in a short time you will reap the benefits. And if at first you do this just for the material reward, you will also learn to realize that the satisfaction, pride, and personal accomplishment you feel in having achieved your goal is something even more pleasant, and it will constantly fuel your inner fire, your desire to win.
Christophe Daroux
Posted on December 5, 2008
travailleur-autonome.info
It helps to have goals you can visualize. Whatever your goal, make it visual. This could be something like a car, or a vacation. Take a picture or cut one out of a magazine and put it in a prominent place, at work or at home, where you see it often. So that when you feel discouraged, this image will remind you of your goal and help you stay focused.
It's a contract with yourself. According to motivation research, people who write to-do lists are much more likely to achieve their goals than those who just keep a mental list. When you write something down, it somehow makes it more powerful psychologically. This explains why in some cultures, or in most cultures, great importance is given to honoring contracts.
In a contract, you can also include a special reward you will give yourself when you have completed the task. After all, everyone likes to be rewarded for a job well done. Just telling someone they've done a good job or saying thank you is enough to give them an extra boost to continue, but unfortunately this isn't always the case, you don't always have someone on hand. So you will have to find a way to find this encouragement on your own by pleasing yourself.
There are negative people who will belittle you and weaken your self-esteem. Eliminate these negative people from your life. Surround yourself with positive people. Follow their example. Smile as much as possible and have joyful thoughts. These people will give you a better, clearer vision of what you really want, and your mind will be clear enough to know what steps to take to achieve it.
Rather than waiting for things to happen, be proactive and make things happen. Inactivity softens the brain and slows down your potential to achieve your goals.
Read inspirational books or documents. They will help you improve your attitude and heal your mind. A book of success stories should also help encourage you. You will not only learn from the experiences of others, gain confidence, and get more ideas, but the story will also help you motivate yourself towards your goal and pursue your plans.
If that's not enough, take training courses. It often happens that not knowing how or where to start leads to frustration. Knowledge is power. If you clearly understand how and where to start, you will feel much more powerful, and this will give you more strength to succeed in the goal you set for yourself and to stick to it.
If, despite all this advice for achieving self-motivation, you feel that you still lack inner resources, that the energy is not yet on its way, there is one last thing you must try. Whatever you wanted to do, try to do or accomplish, go for it! Say it out loud and go for it! It's by doing it that you will solve the problem of motivation. By forcing yourself to do it, your energy will gradually build up as you work, and without you realizing it, you will have finished the task you set for yourself and you will have accomplished your goal.
Divide and conquer is the key. Break down this seemingly unattainable activity into small, easy-to-accomplish steps. It's not only less intimidating, but seeing the intermediate results will reinforce your confidence that it can be done.
Lack of motivation happens to us all, but if you don't encourage yourself to accept opportunities and be challenged, no one else will. It's important to keep your eye on the prize, find ways to keep going, and in a short time you will reap the benefits. And if at first you do this just for the material reward, you will also learn to realize that the satisfaction, pride, and personal accomplishment you feel in having achieved your goal is something even more pleasant, and it will constantly fuel your inner fire, your desire to win.
Christophe Daroux
Posted on December 5, 2008
travailleur-autonome.info
