"Damn, I'm feeling lazy again today, what's wrong with me! Every couple of days, I lose my motivation! Losing my motivation and making you do this work even more."
If you can't keep up, today I'm going to tell you the mistakes that cause you to lose motivation every few days and how you can smartly capture your motivation every day.
Book by Jeff Hayden The Motivation Myth. So let's find a suitable solution to this life problem.
Mistake 1: Setting unrealistic goals.
You used to wake up at 10 am every day, but one day suddenly you saw a video on YouTube. Benefits of waking up early in the morning.
About, you decide that you will wake up at 5 am from tomorrow, maybe next two days you wake up somehow but from the third day your body feels so tired that you can't wake up anymore. , you know, motivation to keep going.
Mistake 2: Don't measure daily progress
You started exercising to lose weight. But you didn't manage to measure your weight regularly after exercise. did not As a result, after two or four days of exercising, when you could not see any obvious changes with your naked eyes, you lost the motivation to continue exercising daily.
Mistake 3: Forgetting the source of motivation
After watching that YouTube video, you decide you're going to get up early tomorrow. When you lose motivation or feel discouraged to wake up early, you can get that motivation back.
But despite knowing this, you didn't bother to find that video again. So, how to stay motivated?
Solution 1: Set a simple and small realistic goal
The first thing you need to do is set a realistic goal. What does realism mean? Realistic refers to something that you think is very easy or possible to achieve.
Let's say your goal is to wake up at 5 am. But that doesn't mean you have to wake up at 5am tomorrow. If you wake up at 10 am today, your next goal should be to wake up at 9:45 am the next day.
And so after a gap of 15 days, set a target of getting up 15 minutes earlier than the previous time and gradually try to shift it to 5 am.
As a result, when you achieve this simple goal after using the 15-minute trick, you will feel a sense of reward or pride in yourself and it will motivate you to keep going.
But if you start getting up at 5am tomorrow instead of 10am, you will fail after a few days, and it will kill your motivation to keep going.
Solution 2: Do something 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 failure.
So if you want to keep your motivation wheels turning, you have to do it a little bit every day. And this can only happen if you can measure how much progress you are making every day.
And to do that, you have to break down your big goal and break it down into smaller goals for a day and commit to accomplishing them while focusing on that smaller goal.
The moment you achieve this small goal, that achievement will motivate you. This way, you will be able to easily maintain your motivation.
Solution 3: Refill your motivation tank from time to time
Before, you wanted to wake up early every morning, but you didn't have the motivation to do it. After watching this YouTube video, you are instantly inspired.
That means there was something in that post that made you realize why you needed to get up early. Now the reality is that if I told you what I said at the beginning of this post, you would only get 50% of it right.
So imagine, if you forgot 50% of it in a few minutes, how much of what I said in this pod will you remember after 3-4 days? 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 an article or paragraph, we still seem to remember everything, but when asked to say or write it out loud, we get stuck and can't remember.
So if you lose motivation, you have to replenish it from that motivation source to restore it. Like filling petrol in a car. If the car stops, you will have to go to the petrol pump and refill it.
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