What’s your goal or desire? Do you want to start a new business? Want to learn a new craft? Ready to lose a few pounds? Interested in asking for a raise at work? That’s a thought. And that’s all it is. You need to kickstart your motivation a bit further to actually start the new business, learn that craft, start a diet or proceed with creating a proposal that helps you get that raise. Then you have to retain your motivation to persevere and succeed and or even to just simply complete your goal or project.
And by the way, finishing what you started is success in itself no matter the results of the actual goal or project. If you start a business and don’t make a profit; enter a marathon and come in 16th place instead of first; create a work of art—that even your dog wouldn’t buy; make a proposal for a raise at work to which your boss says no; and stick with a diet for three months only to lose 10 pounds instead of the 25 you were striving for, you still are successful because you finished a project you started. So many people don’t finish what they start. Even worse, so many people don’t start! Why?
Perhaps they lack motivation or it quickly dwindles once into the project. It’s a lot easier to just sit on the couch and think about your goals and desires than to actually do something toward meeting them. Sometimes the only thing that motivates us to get off the couch and shut the television is the fact that we can’t reach that cookie or other snack in the fridge from our resting place. So striving for an even bigger goal than your next meal seems daunting and unreachable to us at times. It takes stronger motivation and perseverance.
Motivation appears to come from within yourself. But that doesn’t mean you can’t kick-start your motivation from an external source. Successful people do this all the time ongoing. And that doesn’t mean an external source can’t affect your motivation (Keep reading to see what I mean.). Here are two things you can do to get and stay motivated. (more…)
