How You Can Keep Yourself Motivated?

If you are really serious about pursuits in life then you surely have needed this.

Seeking motivation and keeping yourself on the right trajectory is the way that can bring pursuit to your goals. The effectiveness of motivation mainly depends upon how you make it work.

As it is said where there’s no will, there’s no way.

Why you should keep yourself motivated?

Well there are certain reasons that compels you to make progress in your life. Being motivated can led you toward attainment of your goal, make you get up in the morning, and keep your persistent on the task when circumstances are not in your favor.

The notion to understand the psychology behind motivation is instrumental so to use it in your advantage. Let me show you some perspective changes that help you to keep motivated-even in the times of when you feel like giving up.

Facing Your Lows:

It is in human nature being in low times he/she needs a morale to overcomes the obstacles. Overcoming your setbacks needs a positive energy which can work in the form of taking accolades and authentic pride that describes those worm, rewarding feeling you get when you make progress toward the attainment of a hard-one goal.

A psychologist at the university of British Columbia, and author of Take Pride: Why The Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success, Jessica Tracy make an extensive study on the effects of the authentic pride (i.e. feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment) on human motivation.

According to Tracy, shame is the feeling of uselessness and considering yourself” I am not going to try to work hard because it is just going to end up in failure.”

In contrast, it is fine to let ego hurt a little bit as it will make you more motivated in term of working harder.

Recently, if you are suffering through disappointment and impediment, don’t let yourself fall into despair rather utilized your energy into changing and improving yourself.

It’s OK to be Distracted:

Letting the distraction go away is the belief that can hardly work in keeping yourself motivated. It’s fine to embrace distraction as it works as a strategy in helping your brain stay focused.

According to Oliver Burkeman, the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking maintain that misguidance works as an enemy towards distractions. Burkeman believes fighting with the inner self that in turn keeps us on the right trajectory is the main cause of chronic distraction.

Blaming external factors like taunting coworkers, addiction to social media, or being scolded by the boss is something what seems to be easier to do so. Moreover, such perceptions help in making pace on the right way and recharging ourselves to the attainment of our long-held pursuits.

As it acts like a magnet telling us to concentrate on something specific task at hand.

In 99u, Burkeman wrote, “The good news is that when you see distraction for what it really is, you are much better equipped to fight it.”

Foster Your Strength to Tolerate Discomfort:

Now is the time to embark on the journey of success no matter how severe circumstances turn against you. You are here because you can face difficulties, you can expand your efforts, and you can surpass the others.

A productivity coach and business consultant, Carson Tate view this phenomenon as intellectual discomfort. According to him, everyone experiences this phenomenon once in a life. It’s a deep-down aversion in oneself to do any work that mobilizes us and led us to face the challenges at hand.

At first, it will not be easier for you but you can train your mind to make yourself comfortable with the discomfort of intellectually demanding work. If you perceive it as preparing for a marathon, you have to maintain a schedule and keep yourself stick to it. Day by day, it will become easier for you.

Running a mile might seem like a hell task on the first day, but it will become a part of yourself in the six months.

Consistency, plan method, and patience can help in enhancing your strength for intellectual work. In other words, it dramatically makes it easier for you to remain stick to your attainments of goals that would otherwise not work if you were discouraged or demotivated.

Key Takeaways:

The overarching theme behind these notions is that it is unrealistic to not feel motivated. If you are on the journey of pursuit to attain some task or goal, then how have you make it here till now? Though seeking constant motivation can help in furthering your goal or task when you feel lacking motivation.

The key takeaway? Don’t be too harsh in judging yourself when you feel lagging in motivation. It’s perfectly fine, you can still make it work when you perceive losing it. So move ahead, give yourself a short break. And then get down to business so to rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Let me know how you keep yourself motivated when circumstances are not in your favor?