Are you lacking motivation? if so try these things to help you stay motivated to accomplish your goals and live the life you dream of
1.Break it up into small pieces 2.Beliving you can 3.Be consistent 4.Think Long term 5.Dont rely on motivation 6.Do things you’re good at 7.Find mentor’s
Keep reading im going to go a lot deeper on each one of these to give you a better understanding on how to get up and find motivation on the days when you feel like doing nothing or giving up.
1.Break It Up
There’s a saying ” If something is too big, you break it down. Break it into smaller and smaller pieces, until they are small enough to handle.” One of the biggest reason people procrastinate is because you think of something and think of all the millions of things you have to get done before getting to the goal.
An it becomes overwhelming you get discourage and just do nothing. An easy way to solve this is breaking it down. Take that big task and just do it one step at a time. You dont need to do the whole thing at once. Just do one small piece then do another. Before you know it the whole task is done.
2.Believe You Can
If you are trying to go after a big goal and its too far out and you dont believe you can, you wont even get started.A great example is in money and enterpreneurship. Some people have goals of being a success business owner and making a million dollars.
Even though you haven’t made a penny in business you try to think of that million dollar business although you never started a business before. An because you never made a penny as a business owner the thought of making a million feels like a long shot. So you become unmotivated because its not realist and you dont try because you don’t believe in yourself.
But if I came from the future and told you that you really are going to become a successful business owner and that it was real and guarantee to happen it you got up and started. You will believe you can and take massive action because the future came back to the past and told you. If you are confident that you can do it. Believe you will you will. All you have to do is believe in yourself enough to take action.
3.Be Consistent
Nothing happens overnight you have to put in the work. I dont care if you are a natural or not. So many gurus and internet marketers are selling the idea that you can make money or success in 30, 60 and 90 days. That is some pure bullshit. The struggle is the price you pay to achieve your dreams. The universe makes you struggle to achieve your dreams as a right of passage. An to shake out the people who try it for 30 days and don’t deserve it.
Even people that are legends at their craft like Kanye West struggle at the start of his career as a artist.If you haven’t watch his documentary on Netflix then you are missing out the first episode is all you need to watch. Kanye the Grammy award winning artist had label executives laugh at him didn’t take his music seriously.
When he play them his songs that later when one to become number 1 song in the country. They didn’t like it and really ignore kayne and started doing other things and until he left.Still kanye kept doing it thing he didn’t let that stop him.He knew what he was going to be and kept working. Them song was put on his album and went number 1 on the billboard. Decide what price you are willing to pay. Show up everyday and price that price.
Even when its hard come back everyday with that positive believe that you know its going to happen and put in the work EVERY DAY!!
4.Think Long Term
When you start a task or mission and you try to conquer the world in 90 days similar to what I mention earlier your brain will know thats not possible and you wont be motivated to do. The timeline you set for yourself has to be realistic you cant achieve great things fast.
For example telling yourself you going to finish your degree in 2 years and you know you wasn’t good with work in high school is far fetch. Trying to loose weight and get your summer body in during summer and you never workout before is a not happening. Trying to make 10k a month for your first business in 90 days from a online guru make money online course is laughable( I hope I didn’t crush your dreams but im trying to help you).
The better way to go about it is if you realized that what you really want to be a lawyer and you want to start your journey you have to realize that it takes sometime you need to go to school get a undergrad then law except the journey and enjoy it. But dont waste no time complete assigns as fast as you can. Talk to lawyers and build relationship when you not doing school work. Be in a hurry but mental be prepared that it could take 7 years and if you do it faster then great.
Remember its better to achieve your goals in a longer period of time than to never do it at all.
6.Dont Rely On Motivation
Motivation is tricky because its an emotion that comes and go.If I had to rely on motivation honestly you wouldn’t be reading this blog (thank you for reading by the way).But the day in and day out grind of life you need to have a strong reason for doing what you are doing.If not the you’re not going to be able to stick it out when the going gets tuff.
Thats why in movies or people stories their whole life would be going horrible a hot mess. Then somethings big happens like mother has a heart attack and almost dies because she cant afford the treatment and doesn’t have insurance. So you deiced that you are going to make sure this never happens to your mother or anybody else again.
Years go by now you are a heart surgeon and owns 6 hospitals over the country. Was that motivated that kept you going. No it was a cause a bigger reason whenever times get hard you need to write that paper or go to work to finish paying your way though school. You’ll think about the way that hospital almost let your mother died and how they treated her because she didn’t have money.
6.Do Things You’re Good At
If you suck at whatever you’re trying to do more than likely you going to quit unless you got a number 5 big reason. People hate doing things they are bad at. You and me are no different. But if you’re good at something it gives you the opposite effect. Most people love winning. In American and im sure all over the world we celebrate winners and being the best. An we look down on losers.
When you are good at something lets use basketball as an example you’ll love playing. You dont even have to be the greatest like Michael Jordan. But when play ball vs normal people you played very well you will feel good. Every time you go to gym class you’ll want to play basketball because you’re good at it. You wont need motivated to play, you’ll want too because it makes people feel good to be a winner.
7.Find Mentors
Sometimes on the way to accomplishing the goal it feels like the pain and suffering never ends. Everytime you solve a problem another ones comes up. You start to think that maybe its not for you. This is where your mentor kicks in. Your mentor doesn’t have to always be in person. You can use books as your mentors with I often do.
Mentors will help you see that somebody else went through this exact thing you’re going though and they made it so I can too. That will help you pull though tuff times that feels like it ever ends. Also mentors will help you avoid those mistakes you will make in the first place. More than likely if you are doing something its somebody that already has already done it find them and ask them what they would have done differently and best advice for someone thats starting or on the journey.
Seeing a successful person that’s where you want to be will assure you that its possible and you can do it too. An that will keep you going
For more information and if you have anything to ask me talk to me on LinkedIn @ Rashard Charismatic Kings