Having Problems With Staying Motivated?

Most of us have love-hate relationship with motivation. We need to get motivated all the time but we always find it hard to get out of our comfort zones and get ourselves working. We like to feel motivated but we hate the process of prodding ourselves into doing what we are supposed to be doing or finishing what we have already started.

Motivation is an hard to pin down thing. What few people realise though is that while it may be hard to pin down at times, there are plenty of things one can do to muster enough motivation to get yourself going.

Quit the debate -The battle always starts in the head. It begins ten to five minutes before you start doing the thing you have to do – whether it's a task, a business plan, a goal.

In the normal course of hesitating to do your task, one part of your head tries to talk you into doing it. It is immediately followed by a voice that talks you out of it. This process goes on until you decide to follow either of the two voices – abandon the task and live with the uneasy, guilty feeling or finish it and feel satisfied. The right choice is obvious, but the immediate convenience of the 'easy way out' presents make it very enticing.

Try not to prolong the debate. The longer it goes on, the more difficult it will be for you to begin and finish your task, the less motivated you will feel. This mental chatter is an absolute motivation killer.

Find your inspiration - Inspiration almost always comes out of nowhere. It is funny how one can feel inspired by simply listening to the rhythm of the falling rain or by simply watching little children play. It is amazing how a witty line from a poem can enlighten your mind and your mood.

It is never fully clear why these things happen, but it is evident that they happen all the time. When lacking the inspiration to get off your butt and do your work, try to look at the most unassuming places and see if something inside you will react. Don’t push it, though. Inspiration is a sudden occurrence, it can never be manufactured. It comes when the time is ripe.

Take a break - Exhaustion can kill your mood, not to mention lower your motivation level. There is enough time in the world to do and finish everything you have to do so don’t race against time. Always take the time to reward yourself with some sunshine and warm bath. Or with some relaxing minutes under the trees or in your bed. However you do it, just try to have the faith that once you get back to the drawing board, your mind is already geared to be productive. Don’t be afraid to take some time off and reward yourself with rest.

Always enjoy the process - What are life and work if they are not enjoyed? Try to always find the purpose and happiness in everything you do, no matter how uninterested you are. 

Motivation: How To Fire Up Your Inner Drive

It happens to all of us. One day, we just wake up lacking the energy to do anything. Not wanting to go out of bed, not wanting to stay in it either. That's normal. That's the stuff of life, so to speak. What is not normal though is getting entangled with lack of energy, lack of drive, lack of motivation. What is not normal is to continuously talk yourself into the act of not doing anything. But what do you do when all the drive inside of you are purged out? Maybe you can begin with the following recommendations.

Think of the worst-case scenario - We have all been told that envisioning success is a good motivator. Now, why not do the exact opposite? Why not envision a future that is bleak, hopeless and stripped off all happiness and success. Why not envision yourself living eternally in a rut where sense of accomplishment and a tiny hope are inexistent?

Scary, right? Few people realise that they already own a one-way ticket towards this very vision. Now what you want to do is to get off your butt and work your way out of the train wreck you are heading to. Turn your life around and work for a goal. Now, that is getting motivated.

Set a date for change and commit to it - Change must come to everyone of us. Sometimes it is forced upon us, sometimes we choose when it will happen. It is always much more preferable to have control over the change that can take us over. If the change you are seeking requires a specific date on the calendar, then set it. Make a huge, red circle around the date and stick with it. Let this serve as a motivator to start doing the things you should have done weeks, months or years ago. Let this chosen date serve as the new beginning of your life.

Break the routine - When you're doing the same thing every day, sooner or later, the energy that you once had will drain out. No matter how passionate you were with your work, project, or goal when you were just beginning, you will suffer from lack of motivation once your body senses that it is doing the same thing day in, day out.

Don’t be afraid to break the routine once in a while. Quit work for a full day. Stop doing your routine for a week. Take a month-long holiday. Take on a new hobby for a year. These can help energise you and rekindle your drive. And while you're taking your break from your routine, don’t lose the faith that you will have the same kind of energy you once had by the time you get back to work.

Don’t lose sight of your goals - It is easy to lose your focus when there is too much distraction around. Whether it's the kids, clutter at your work area, Twitter or Facebook, you will find that these simple things remind you of other things that can drive your concentration away from the task at hand. To prevent yourself from killing your own motivation, always try to stick with your goals and shut out whatever it is that it trying to reduce it.

ACTION – The Key To SUCCESS

Action – is a very small word but without it nothing can ever manifest in your life.

Take this tiny million pound concept to heart, and your chosen pathway will unfold before you.

There is a well known and very much overlooked ‘secret’ that Masters and Super Achievers use continuously. It is a very basic, simple component that sets in motion all that exists in the human world. We all know it is real and absolutely necessary. Yet the vast majority of people do their level best to avoid it.

Without this ‘secret’, all dreams, hopes, wishes and well intentioned goals will remain in the imagination and will not materialise, as if placed in a box and stored away for a rainy day. The box will be pulled out on rainy afternoons, and your cherished ideas and goals dusted off and pondered once more. Some time will be spent in procrastinating the potential possibilities, and hopefulness will return. After some minutes spent pondering great thoughts with excitement, which will once again settle into complacency and with a tired resolve, the goals, ambitions and really serious potential will be carefully put to rest in the box once more without any changes being made.

The real definition of potential, to put it politely, is ‘worth nothing’. Goals, dreams, wishes, hopes and desire have only potential when ACTION add the ‘secret’ ingredient which leads to manifestation. Without it potential is not worth a thing in reality. There is so much latent potential lost in the world. But add the magic secret ingredient of ‘Action’, and your desires will become manifest before your eyes and empty your potential and goals into your real world.

This secret, magic ingredient known as ‘action’ is a million pound concept that great achievers have devoted their lives to – teaching and training others that ‘action’ is the key to success. All desires must begin their journey into manifestation somewhere. All things already exist, but you must accept them as they, or go and get them. You must actively allow results to happen. Take action, and get what it is you want.

Consider you are in a restaurant, and you want a piece of pie from the buffet table laid up for the diners. You will think about the delicious pie, and how much you are going to savour its taste. But if you really want it you have to get up from your chair, cross the restaurant floor and place the piece of pie on your plate in order to enjoy the pleasure of eating it. You must learn to accept that if you truly want something enough you have to take ACTION to get it.

Lose the potential, and take the action. Start and the path to success will unfold in front of you as you walk upon it. The pathway will continue as long as you wish to travel, but you must take that first step. Desire all you want, but without actually doing something about it, the reality will never manifest itself in front of you, and will remain in your imagination of “I wish to achieve..............”
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Don’t delay take action now, ‘it’s all about you’ taking responsibility to act, start and your path and success will unfold and reveal itself to you.

Till next time

Rosie