"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up"
~Thomas Edison
"Motivation is literally the desire we have to do things. It is the difference between waking up before dawn to get started on a particular project and lazing around the house all day watching TV. It's the crucial element in setting and attaining goals. Research shows you can influence your own levels of motivation, but far too often, we fail to do so. Staying motivated can be a real struggle. When trying to maintain motivation, our drive is constantly assaulted by negative thoughts and anxieties about the future.
Everyone faces doubt and depression at one time or another. What
separates the highly successful from those who fail is the ability to stay
motivated and keep moving forward. There are three major reasons people fail to
maintain motivation.
· Lack of confidence—Simply
put, if you don’t believe you can succeed, what’s the point in trying, right?
When this happens, it’s usually because you’re focusing entirely on what you
want and neglecting what you already have. Because of this, your mind creates
explanations for why you aren’t getting it. This creates negative thoughts
about how you feel about yourself. Your mind is dominated by past failures, bad
breaks, and personal weaknesses. You can become jealous of your competitors,
which causes you to start making excuses for why you can’t succeed. When you
try to function under these conditions, you can make bad impressions, assume
the worst about others, and lose self-confidence. Instead, you should try to focus on gratitude. Take time to
focus all the positive things in your life. Prepare and refer often to a mental
list of your strengths, past successes, and current advantages. People often
tend to take their strengths for granted and dwell on their failures. If you
focus on feeling grateful, you’ll see how competent and successful you already
are. This will restore your confidence and get you motivated to build on your current success. It might be difficult to understand how repeating things
you already know can improve your mindset, but it can. The mind can often distort reality to confirm what
it wants to believe. The more negatively you think, the more examples your mind
will discover to confirm that belief. When you believe you deserve success,
your mind will generate ways to achieve it. You will need to have belief you'll
achieve your goals. Faith will unlock the doors. Numerous individuals come
across choices but never take action considering that they never believe they
might succeed.
· Lack of focus—If you don’t know
what you want, is there anything you really want? Many times, people focus on
what they don’t want, rather than on a concrete goal. They normally think in
terms of fear. You may be afraid of being poor, afraid no one will respect you,
or afraid of being alone. The problem you face when thinking like this is that
fear alone isn’t actionable. Instead of doing something about your fear, the
fear feeds on itself and usually drains your motivation. If you become caught
up in fear-based thinking, you should try focusing that energy on a well-defined
goal. If you do this, you automatically define a set of actions. If you’re
afraid of being poor, create a plan to increase your income. It might be going
back to school, obtaining a higher paying job, or developing a profitable
website. The key is moving from an indefinable desire to tangible, measurable
steps. If you focus your mind on positive goals instead of fear, you put your brain to work
creating a plan for success. You are no longer worrying about the future.
Instead, you’re beginning to do something about it.
· Lack of direction—If
you don’t know what to do, how can you possibly be motivated to do it? When you’re
focusing on having an ultimate goal, direction means having a day-to-day plan to achieve it. Not
having direction can destroy motivation, because without an obvious next action
we succumb to procrastination. The key to finding direction is identifying the
activities that lead to success. Make a list of all your activities and arrange them based on the
results you achieve from each activity. Then make a make an action plan that
focuses on the activities pay off. When you keep track of your most important
tasks you will direct your power towards success. You have to possess specific targets if you wish to remove
confusion. It's like attempting to carry out a number of things at the same
time. You'll certainly not get anything done trying to complete everything. When
you feel yourself losing motivation, you can regain direction by creating a
plan that contains two positive actions. small task you’ve been meaning to do,
while the second should be a long-term goal. When you immediately do the
smaller task, you create positive momentum. Then it’s easier to take the first
step to achieving the long-term goal.
It’s practically impossible to avoid periods of low energy, bad
luck, and even the occasional failure. Motivation can be difficult during these
times. There is no simple solution for a lack of motivation. Even after beating
it, the problem reappears at the first sign of failure."
Here are a few tips you can use:
Here are a few tips you can use:
1. Know what you want to achieve: If
you don’t know what you want to achieve, how will you know when you achieve it?
Deciding exactly what you want to do is the beginning of staying motivated to
finish it.
2. Determine the steps to reach your goal: There
are things you need to do for anything you want to do. Knowing what the steps
are will give you a guideline. They’ll also give you mini successes as you
complete each step.
3. Devise a plan: Though there may be many
steps to take, it is necessary to know in what order you need to achieve them.
If possible, alternate between those that are easy to achieve and those that
will take longer. This way, you don’t go through long periods of time without
completing part of your plan. It will help you feel more successful if you
complete parts of the plan often
By Sleny Ku, Founder & Chief Abundance Officer, http://365JustDoIt.com
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