Motivation: We all need it, and we all need help sometimes. Motivation can give you that extra push to get something to accomplish, but it doesn’t always come when you need it. If you’re struggling to begin or finish a task, give yourself some encouragement to keep going. A little bit of pressure can help, so ask a peer, family member, or group to keep you accountable. If you’re trying to achieve long-term plans, make sure that you have clear, realistic and manageable goals so that you maintain your motivation throughout the process. Nobody will do it for you, so motivate yourself.
Here are 14 tips on how to motivate yourself :
1. Have A Reason
The reason you care about is the main source of inspiration. Such reason can move you to give your best even notwithstanding challenges. It can cause you to do the apparently unthinkable things.
While different causes could rouse you incidentally, a reason that issues to you can motivate you inconclusively. It’s a spring of inspiration that will never dry. Whenever you think that you run out of motivation, remember the reason why you have started?
2. Dream Big
Having a dream is important because without a dream you don’t have anything to live for. Just think about people who play football. Will they be motivated to play if there is no goal to score? I don’t think so. They need a goal and so do you.
Be that as it may, simply having a dream is not enough. Your dream must be sufficiently big to motivate you. It must be sensible but challenging. It must challenge your ability beyond your comfort zone.
3. Be Hungry
You must have hunger to achieve something you desire. Your motivation must be big enough to overcome the hurdles that will come your way.
To have hunger, your reason and your dream play a big role. If you have a reason you care about and a big dream related to it, you should have the hunger inside of you. If you think that you are losing hunger, all you need to do is to connect again to your reason and dream. Allow them to inspire and reignite your drive.
4. Set A SMART Goal And Note It Down
SMART stands for:
- Specific – be specific with what you want to change/achieve.
- Measurable – keep track of your progress.
- Attainable – Ensure that your goal is practical, logical, and achievable. If you set your expectations too high, then your inspiration will probably turn into frustration soon.
- Relevant – How passionate are you about your goal? The more you are passionate about your goal, it will be easier to find ways to get it.
- Time-Bound – set a time when you want to have achieved your desired goal. This will help you create a sense of urgency and prevent you from getting distracted.
5. Be Passionate About It
Researchers confirmed that people act under the hedonistic principle. This states why people are good at tasks they enjoy and are interested in. That’s why it is so crucial to find something that makes you happy. For example, if your goal is to exercise regularly and get a good shape, then find a work-out you have fun while doing it and stick to it.
6. Focus On Your Goal
You will face a time of stagnation and perhaps you will feel like you are not moving towards your goal anymore. In those times, imagine yourself driving a car when it’s raining heavily. You will probably have to slow down because of the rain, which makes it hard to see where you are going. However, you will have to stay focused and keep on moving forward, although you’re moving a little slower than before. So keep going, you’ll get there sooner or later.
7. Run Your Own Race
Comparing yourself with others is one of the most effective ways to demotivate yourself. Even if you start with enthusiasm, you will soon lose your energy and faith when you compare yourself with others.
Don’t let these happen to you. You have your own race so how other people do is irrelevant. Comparing yourself with others is like comparing the performance of a swimmer with an athlete (runner) using the same time standard. They are not identical so how can you compare one with the other?
The only challenger you have is yourself. The only one you need to defeat is you. Have you become the best version of you?
8. Take One More Step
When you meet hurdles along the way, there could be the tendency to quit. You may think that it’s too hard to move on. You may think that your goal is impossible to achieve. But this is where you can see the major difference between winners and losers. Though both of them face the same difficulties, there is one thing that makes the winners stand-out: the courage to continue.
In difficult circumstances, just focus on taking one more step forward. Don’t think about how to finish the race. Don’t think about how many more hurdles are waiting for you. Just focus on taking the next step ahead of you.
9. Leave The Past Behind
One of the effective demotivators is your past. Your history has the potential to weigh you down unexpectedly. Your past can make you cry hard.
The good news is it’s a burden you don’t have to carry because it’s gone. Take it off your shoulder and leave it behind. You might make flaws in the past. You might dishearten others with what you did. But it’s all over. It’s already in the past, and there’s nothing you can do about it now.
Today is a new day and you have the opportunity to start again. No matter how bad your past might be, you still have an astonishing future ahead waiting for you. Just don’t let the shadow of the past stop you.
10. Provide Feedback To Yourself
Feedback is significant in any circumstance and condition. People are social creatures who need a sense of belonging as well as appreciation and endorsement. Consider how you feel when you offer someone a compliment, or when somebody says something pleasant to you. Giving and getting criticism evokes positive feelings on both sides. Recipients feel acknowledged and as a significant part of the group, which elevates their mind-set, and improves their general fulfillment and capacity to adapt to pressure and feelings.
11. Reward Yourself
Talk with yourself sometimes! Allow some “Me time.” It is so important to recharge yourself and to do whatever you enjoy doing, whether it is watching a movie, eating an ice cream, playing a certain sport, or just playing your favorite video game. It will serve as a source of inspiration and upliftment to continue moving forward. Think about how great it feels to finish something or to hit a milestone on the way to the goal. But remember, step by step, little by little,you need to grow and never forget to be kind to yourself.
12. Read Daily
Although it may sound counter-productive to set aside reading time when really what you’re looking for is motivation to work hard, sometimes it’s essential to do something seemingly unrelated to tackle the task at hand. Developing a daily reading habit is one thing that’s likely to have a long-lasting impact on your thought processes, ultimately motivating you in all areas of your life.
13. Accept That You Cannot Force Change!
If you change your life in any way (healthy eating, new relationship, move to another place, losing weight, etc), you are showing people around you positive change and that they could do something similar. However, this would require them to change something in their lives and to leave their comfort zone, and that’s scary, and requires quite a bit of courage and willpower. Understand that when people see you being able to make a change often leads them to feel judged by you, which can demotivate them. Perhaps they will even pursue to talk you out of your plan or a certain goal to clarify for themselves not to leave their comfort zone. So don’t forget, this isn’t about you, it’s about them. All you can do is be a positive example, be supportive, empathetic, motivating, and signal that they can join you any time.
14. Stop Caring About the Things That Don’t Matter
Look very carefully and closely at your list, and remove anything that’s both truly demotivating and unnecessary for you to do. It’s not always best to accomplish what you started if, down the line, you can’t even remember the reason you started something. motivate yourself, motivate yourself
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