Do You ever feel like One day you're are on top of the world and the motivation keeps coming. Other days its impossible to get motivated.
Here you will find four ways to trigger your motivation in everyday life.
The Four Best Ways to Get & Stay Motivated
A curious thing about motivation is that it often comes after you start taking action, not before.
1.Schedule Your Motivation
Scheduling is what many fitness athletes do.
For example, planning and scheduling when and how to prepare for an upcoming race or match. By giving your goals a time and a place with a schedule, it's then much more likely that you follow through with it.
For example, You want to eat more vegetables but don't feel motivated to buy and cook vegetables:
1. Mark a day where you look up new recipes with vegetables.
2. Mark the days you need to shop for vegetables.
3. Mark the days where you want to include vegetables in your meals.
4. Hang the schedule on your fridge or where you quickly see it
If have the motivation in front of you, so there is a much greater chance you follow the schedule.
2.Start Your Motivation With A Ritual
A great way to start your motivation with a ritual. This ritual has to be so easy that you can't say no to it so You shouldn't need to be already motivated to start it and you can do it at any time without problems.
For example, if you're going to go for a power walk, your ritual could be filling your bottle with water or leaving your trainers by the front door ready for that run. Then you cant say no!
3.Get your self a workout partner
Some things are just more manageable when you are a two.
When we have someone who believes in us and supports us, goals can be easier to achieve.
This is because they can encourage you during the process and when you have someone that counts on you to meet them at 06.00 am in the gym, you are more likely to get yourself together and go
4.Set A Reward
We all like rewards, and it is part of our nature to feel good after achieving something.
If we get a reward for doing it – well then even better.
You can waken your motivation by offering yourself a reward if you hit your goal.
Or your goal is to start running, but you always find excuses not to do it. Then you can tell yourself. "If I run on all my planned run days after work, I will go look at those new trainers I want on Friday."
The reward itself is not the most crucial part here; it is what thinking of the reward does to your body.
Steven Pressfield suggests:
"At some point, the pain of not doing it becomes greater than the pain of doing it."
References
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6. A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation. E L Deci, R Koestner, R M Ryan
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