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5 Gold tips to boost your Motivation
- By Fruitful Time
- Published 02/15/2008
Note: This is a guest post by FruitfulTime.
Everyone has goals in
life but not everyone has the same motivation to reach them. Motivation is the
one and only differentiator between normal people, successful people and
extremely successful people. It is easy to set promising targets, but as time
passes by, it is common that you will lose hope and stop dreaming that one day
you can reach your initial goal(s). That happens because you do not inject the
daily dose of motivation in your veins. Such dose will help you to keep on
working even though sometimes the road seems long and the light at the end of
tunnel is far away. The following are 5 tips to motivate yourself in order to
keep focused on your goals.
1. Keep track of progress
Whatever you are
doing, being it saving money, working on writing a book or building muscle,
find a metric on how you can measure your success. Make sure that your metric is
rigorous and not subject to interpretation. Finding a proper metric can be
sometimes challenging such as measuring overall muscle weight. Before you start
working, take an initial measure and keep track of it. Write down the target
measure and the date by when that measure should be reached.
Break the time between
the start date and the end date into smaller chunks and associate with them a
particular measure. Hence the time between the start date and the end date will
be a series of mini deadlines that will eventually drive you to your final
destination, the final goal. Using such deadlines you can see whether you are
keeping up the right pace or not. If you are keeping the right pace then all
you have to do is keep on applying the same technique to reach your goals. If
you are slowing down, you have to either intensify your efforts or else you
have to change the way how you are tackling your goals.
2. Start small become bigger
When setting an
ambitious target, you are tempted to do your maximum effort at once to reach
your goals as soon as possible. No! Don’t do that. Doing so will suck up your
energies at one go, making you unable to keep on working towards your goal. You
should start small and intensify as you go along. This way you can always
challenge yourself to work harder. Challenging yourself is one of the best
motivation tips.
Also when you work
your way slowly, you will have a chance of experimenting with different ways
how to achieve your goals. You can spend a period of time experimenting with a
particular technique and see if it pays back. If you don’t see any results at
all you will have an option to do a u-turn and start using another technique.
On the other hand if you see promising results, you can further intensify your
efforts hoping that your technique scale up to the next stage.
3. Find a buddy
Find a partner who is
working to achieve the same goals. For instance, I never go to gym alone. I
always go with a friend of mine. It is much easier to wake early in the morning
when you are committed with a friend to meet up at the gym. When I used to go
alone, I always used to find excuses why I should not wake up and train.
Having a partner to
encourage you is an extra boost. While working to achieve your goal (in this
case train), you can easily compare the progress of your partner with your
progress. It will become very apparent whether you are doing well or not. In
case you are falling behind, try to consult your partner for tips on how s/he
is managing to achieve more than you. Be very choosy when selecting a partner.
Make sure you select a partner that has the same goals as you. Do not select a
partner that has way too high goals or less ambitious goals than yours. Also
make sure that the partner that you team up with is not a pessimist. Such
people will discourage you and not motivate you to work harder towards your
goals.
4. Start today
Don’t delay your
starting any longer. If you know what you want to achieve and you clearly know
the techniques how to achieve that goal, simply get yourself started today. You
sometimes find yourself procrastinating on your goals, wasting precious time
and killing your own motivation. Try to start working towards achieving your
goals while you are motivated by the end result. Such motivation will give you
a good push to start.
5. Celebrate what you achieved
The more you achieve
the higher the probability that you will achieve more. It works like that.
First achievements are the hardest. Once you get the feel of how to achieve
certain goals, it will be easier for you to work your way towards the next goal.
Use achievement to motivate yourself! When you get good results, you have lost
weight, you got a high mark in your tests or you managed to attract a good
business opportunity, make sure you will spend sometime to celebrate and reward
yourself for the achievement. Make sure you share this with your friends so that
you can celebrate with them your latest achievement.
No, the time you spend
celebrating your achievements is not a waste of time! It is as important as
working. Such time will help you be proud of yourself and significantly boosts
your motivation. Do it for every achievement!
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called FruitfulTime TaskManager. For more from FruitfulTime visit FruitfulTime Blog or subscribe to feed
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