Finding motivation to achieve your goals could be the bridge that link towards its realization. Most of us have goals that we aspire to reach. It enables you to strive harder and do better in what you are currently doing, whether at home, school, or work. And when faced with obstacles, some people readily admit defeat and give up on their goals. Motivation is what keeps you from quitting and overcoming hurdles to keep your eye on the goal.
What is Motivation?
Goals are as diverse as people’s personalities are. Goals can either be simple or complex such as a job promotion, vacation to a foreign country, buying a new car, or acquiring a scholarship. The same also goes with people’s motivational needs. Hence, aiming towards your goals is no good without enough motivation that serves as your driving force to realizing them.
Despite constant planning and efforts to moving forward in your goal, failures or unexpected results could happen. Without enough motivation, you could easily give up. Therefore, motivation plays a crucial role in the process. Aside from focusing on the goal itself, think about what there is to you once you have achieved the goal. Is it personal achievement or rewards that you aim to reach? Then, you can devise ways to address your motivational needs.
How to Stay Motivated?
Here are ways to motivate yourself towards achieving your goals:
1.Think of the past and future. This might seem confusing to others but you need to balance between your past achievements and what you intend to achieve in the future. Reminding yourself of previous accomplishments will give you the boost you need to double your efforts. After all, you have done it before and there is no way you cannot accomplish it this time.
2.Break it down to smaller goals. When you have one major goal, better break them down into smaller and more accessible goals. Then, these smaller goals will serve as steps you take until you reach that major goal.
3.Change perspectives. Whatever successes or failures you’ve encountered in the past, take lessons from out of it and motivate yourself to do better each time. Then, you would be able to focus on whatever it takes to get to your desired goal. If you find something isn’t working in your efforts toward the goal, evaluate and change them if necessary.
4.Share your goals to others. Letting others know about your goal works two-ways: it gives you that extra push to work on your goal and you can be assured that there are people that are willing to remind you in case you lose track of your goals.
Increasing Motivation
The best way to start with increasing your motivation is making a personal change. You will be amazed at how much power your mind holds over what you can do. To start that change, ask yourself a series of questions:
-What is my goal?
-What do I need to achieve it?
-What am I looking to achieve by realizing this goal?
These are just basic questions and you can add up the list if you want. The way you speak or act, and your priorities reflect your belief system. Hence, by reprogramming your belief system in such a way that it will facilitate towards working on your goal will make you more effective and motivated.
Finding the right motivation to achieve your goals might be that one thing that stands between its realization.
Larry Rivera
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What’s your motivation to achieve your goals in life?
Captain Swing – a special thank you to you for sharing this part of your life with us.
Hope you & your wife have a great Christmas & that 2008 is a great year for you both.
There are lots of people rooting for you & cheering you on to achieve your goals!
Nelly x
To finish painting whatever picture I am doing and get it sold,,,,
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I don't want to have any regrets.
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The same as any single guy…we want to be successfull so we can get hot chicks.
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Total domination over all living things.
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My motivation even though it sounds stupid is to be the best. If you're always aiming for the top, eventually, you'll get there. Yeah, i might take sometime and you might not be good in everything. But, whatever you are good in, aim to be the best. That's my motivation.
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I dont know, really.
I just internally want to achieve high standards…and be the best before i die!
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You got to have….? Dedication, whoa ho ho…? Dedication whoa ho ? Dedication ….is all you need…….
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My husband is my motivation…If gives me all the encouragement i need to achieve anything i want out of life.
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to be better than the next person.
to be able to give a better chance in life for my children.
to enjoy life and the time we have.
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Wanting the best for me. Showing people that tried to bring me down they didn't and can not affect my success.
Life is short you might as well achieve the things you want out of life and be happy. If you want it bad enough make it happen.
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Brilliant question. As a kid, we where really poor, real bad hand me down clothes and could never do what all my friends where doin thru lack of money. My mum did her best for us and i love her beyond words but we where really poor and everyone knew it. As a symptom of this i was bullied from an early age, most of my childhood is marred by this. I always said i`d never let any child of mine suffer what i went thru and by God thats whats given me the incentive to do well for myself. I now have my own catering business, a lovely house, a man who loves me dearly, 1 beautiful 9 yr old daughter (who`s had everything she`s ever wanted and i dont care who thinks this is bad!) plus another baby on the way. Dont get me wrong, life has been far from plain sailing, its not all been good,as anyone who knows me will tell you, but i totally refuse to let those horrible little ba**ards win. If anyone out there is being bullied, please dont let them win. Pick yourself up and show em what your made of, dont ever let anyone have the last laugh, your better than that and ive shown them that i am too. x
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My motivation IS my goals. What I want to become and achieve is what motivates me to do it…if that makes sense.
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I divide my goals in to smaller parts and it must be done on that date. Persistence is all that I need.
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My business collapsed last year, leaving me over £50,000 in debt. I worked up to 15-16 hours a day but it went down anyway. I did some agency work then finally found a half decent job, not ideal but needs must. Then I fell ill and have spent the last 7 weeks in hospital back and forth to intensive care, catching MRSA along the way. I am unable to go back so I resigned. I got through all that and come out laughing.
Now I'm retraining in computers to turn it all around. Want to start another business, pay off what I owe and emigrate to somewhere warm for my health. What motivates me? I saw my wife cry because we are penniless and the stress over me coming so close to death twice. I am going to succeed so she doesn't ever have to cry again.
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my motivation is to keep dreaming about your goals. If you keep dreaming about them, you're gonna start taking steps towards your goals.
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So that I can feel I lived my life and not wasted it.
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Have we got this motivation thing all back-to-front? Is it that we want to be rich or famous or 'the best' or whatever, or is it that we REALLY don't want to be a failure or poor or whatever else we dread. They are different sides of the same coin. I suspect we are as often motivated by moving away from what we DON'T want as by moving towards something we do want.
What has motivated me to work hard and study hard until well into my 40s is to NOT end up like my dad – a frustrated, humbled, poor man who had to take crap from bosses all his working life. It wasn't that he was stupid – far from it, but he had no formal qualifications. What he did have was a large family that needed to be fed and clothed so he had few choices and had to keep taking the crap. He died soon after retirement. What a waste of a life. There's a quotation I like that goes something like "When I get to the end of my life, I want to have lived the width of it, not just the length." Now there's something to aim for.
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