Damn, again I'm feeling lazy today. What has happened to me! After every two days, I tend to lose my motivation! ” Maybe you also used to start doing something with full motivation and energy but after a few days you tend to lose your motivation and as a result, you could not continue that work anymore.
Solutions To Stay Motivated
So today I will tell you what exactly are the mistakes that cause you to lose motivation after every few days and how you can smartly hold on to your motivation every day, from the book The Motivation Myth written by JeffHaden. So let's find out the apt solution to this life problem.
Mistake 1: Setting unrealistic goals you used to wake up at 10 am every morning, but suddenly one day after you saw a video on youtube about the benefits of waking up early in the morning, you decided that you will wake up at 5 am from tomorrow. Maybe somehow you got up the next two days but from the third day, your body felt so exhausted that you could no longer continue waking up early. As a result, you lost the motivation to continue.
Mistake 2: Do not measure daily progress you started doing exercise for weight loss. But you did not make any arrangement to measure your weight regularly after exercise. As a result, after exercising for two or four days, when you could not notice any visible change with your naked eyes, you lost the motivation to continue exercising daily.
Mistake 3: Forgetting the source of the motivation after watching that youtube video, you decided that you will get up early tomorrow morning. When you lose the motivation or feel demotivated to continue waking up early, if you watch that video again, you can get that motivation back. But despite knowing that you did not bother to find that video again. So, how do stay motivated?
Solution 1: Set a simple and small realistic goal For that, first of all, you have to set a realistic goal. What does realistic mean? Realistic means something that seems to you very easy to achieve or possible. Suppose your goal is to wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning. But that doesn't mean you have to get up sharp at 5 am by tomorrow morning. If you wake up at 10 am today, then your next goal should be to wake up at 9:45 am the next day. And in this way, after the gap of 15 days, set a goal to get up 15 minutes earlier than the previous time and gradually try to shift it to 5 o'clock in the morning. As a result, when you achieve this easy goal after using the 15 minutes trick, you will have a sense of reward or pride in yourself and that will motivate you to continue. But if you start to wake up at 5 am in the morning right from tomorrow instead of 10 am, then after a few days you will fail, and it will kill your motivation to continue.
Solution 2: Make some arrangements to measure your daily progress You have to understand that the most effective fuel or source of motivation is success and the biggest enemy of motivation is a failure. So if you want to keep the wheel of your motivation rolling, you have to feel it every day a little bit. And that can only be done if you can measure how much progress you are making every day. And to be able to do that, you have to break down your big goal and convert it into smaller one-day goals and be determined to complete them focusing on that smaller goal. The moment you will achieve that small goal, that success will fuel your motivation. In this way, you will be able to easily maintain your motivation.
Solution 3: Refill your motivation tank from time to time Earlier, you had the desire to wake up early every morning, but you did not have the motivation to do so. After watching that youtube video, you got motivated instantly. That means there was something in that video that made you realize why you need to wake up early. Now the fact is, if I ask you to say what I have said from the beginning of this video, you may be able to say only 50% of it accurately. So imagine, if you have forgotten 50% of this within a few minutes, then after 3-4 days how much will you be able to remember what I said in this video? You will forget most of it. But your mind will say, "Hey, no, I still remember what he said." Just like after two days of memorizing any essay or paragraph, it seems that we still remember everything, but when we are asked to say it loud or write it down, we get stuck and can not remember it. You may think you still remember everything that was said in that why you should wake up early YouTube video, but the fact is you have forgotten most of it.
So if you lose motivation, you have to refill it from the source of that motivation in order to restore it. Just like refilling petrol in a car. If the car of motivation stops, you have to go to the petrol pump and refill it. Now in your case, this petrol pump or source of motivation can be any youtube video or any book or any person in your life. At last, I just want you to remember that “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”.
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