Motivating yourself

Motivating yourself

Motivation comes from the word, movement and means precisely that, “being able to move yourself to where you want.” Most of us know what we have to do to achieve our dreams but we have 101 reasons not to act on our knowledge

Following are some motivational tips that may help you to work towards your goal:

• You can have anything you want in life if you are willing to work for it.
• Other people’s actions are not responsible for your lack of action.
• Anyone can try to make you angry, afraid or depressed but your response to another person’s actions can be controlled by you.
• Decide whether you are in control or are being controlled.
• Viewing life as an endless string of problems to be solved magnifies them. Treat them as little adventures that bring excitement, fulfillment and joy.
• When minor failures occur, shift focus to the big goal and assess the impact of the failure on the whole.
• If you have trouble getting your workday started, choose the task you find most appealing and do it first everyday.
• Do something nice for someone else.
• Avoid comparing yourself to others.
• Don’t give too much credit to other people’s negative opinions about your goals.
• You have to start somewhere and there is no better time than now.
• Find satisfaction in your daily life; don’t wait for your big break to come.
• Make a list of 10 favourite things you like to do. When you do things you like, you are happy and it motivates you to work towards your goal. Do not neglect your personal happiness.
• Ground yourself with solid principles so you don’t get distracted from your goal by trends or fads.
• Be able to readily identify the most common de-motivators like fear of failure, change in priorities, uncertainty, anger, jealousy, fear of the unknown and so on.
• Avoid identifying too heavily with what you currently are; it blocks your progress toward something new.