Have you ever felt like you were capable of more than what you are currently achieving?

Do you have goals and dreams that you haven’t gotten around to accomplishing yet?

What does it take to really get going in life and start fulfilling your potential?

To get started, you may want to explore and understand these steps :

What Is Motivation?

At the most basic level, motivation is what causes us to take action.In order to get the most out of life, to accomplish any goal or aspiration, it is critical to understand and apply your self motivation.

We can define motivation as having three basic components: energy, willpower, and purpose.

Energy

Energy is the most basic component of motivation. Our day to day energy levels can vary depending on a number factors like health, exercise, diet habits, and environment. With a low level of energy, it becomes difficult to get anything done as fatigue can set in quickly.

Willpower

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Willpower is the ability to push yourself to act, even if your energy is low or if part of you is resisting. The more energy you have, the less willpower is required to get you to take action and vice versa.

Willpower is like a muscle- if you don't use it often it will weaken and atrophy.

Purpose

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

There are messages constantly coming at us telling us what we should or

shouldn't be doing. Advertising is all about giving you reasons to buy this

or that, your employer gives you reasons to do your work, and your family

and friends may try to tell you what to do with your life. Understanding

the power of purpose is key to understanding what is motivation.

Personal Goal setting

When going through a personal goal setting process, it is helpful to put your goals into perspective. One of the goal setting strategies is to classify goals into three general categories.

At this level of the personal goal setting process, your life goal gives you

inspiration for your other goals.. Look beyond your current needs and

problems, move past your fears, and see the image of who you could become.

Your life goal is what you would accomplish if you were acting at your full

capacity. Think about what would really give your life meaning; what you

could and would do if you were using your full potential.

This second category concretes goals that are how you actually express your life goal.

Look at your life as it currently is, and think about what immediate changes and long term changes you need to make in order to get closer to your life goal.

Make some long term goals that will help you move in the right direction.

Focus on one goal at a time, don't try to tackle everything at once.

The main purpose of these types of goals are to give you the foundation and

ability to accomplish your larger aspirations and dreams. If you have poor

health, little money, low energy, few resources, etc., your ability to accomplish

the second level goals is diminished.

Goals like making money, being in good physical shape, and gaining power

are just means for you to achieve greater things.

Don't let them become the sole focus of your life, otherwise you may end up

disappointed when you achieve those types goals and find that they were not

ultimately fulfilling.

How Changing Habits Can Change Your Life

Changing habits can have a profound impact on your overall development and help to increase your personal effectiveness.

The first step in changing habits is to gain a better understanding of

what they are and how they work. Habits are the things we do with

minimal conscious effort.

So think about what you'd like to change in your life, and create a new

habit today- just start doing one thing consistently. One new habit that

may not seem like much, but over time the impact will really add up. Do

it now, and reap the benefits for the rest of your life.

Clarify What You WantClarify What You Want

Think Long TermThink Long Term

Celebrate the Small VictoriesCelebrate the Small Victories

Readjust StrategyReadjust Strategy

Evaluate OutcomesEvaluate Outcomes

Overcoming Procrastination

Psychologically

o Usually the act of procrastination is a defense, a

way to protect yourself. Often when you

procrastinate, you are afraid that taking action will

have some negative consequence.

o You may think you are going to fail, or that

something will go wrong, and you put off the

behavior to try to avoid such a negative

consequence.

o You may put off studying for a test because you are afraid you might not be able to learn everything, or perform well during the test.

o You may put off finishing a project because you fear your efforts may not be good enough.

Overcoming Low Self Esteem

Causes

Self esteem is based on deep rooted beliefs about self worth and your innate potential. With low self esteem you may not feel like you deserve very much, you may believe that your efforts will most likely meet with failure, or you don't have much potential for improvement.

Beliefs like these will make a high level self motivation very difficult to attain, you may have a hard time accomplishing goals.

Take ResponsibilityTake Responsibility

Examine your BeliefsExamine your Beliefs

Work on developing your strengthsWork on developing your strengths

Eliminate Negative InfluencesEliminate Negative Influences

How to Build Self Confidence and Increase your Motivation

Having self confidence is important as you set goals and muster your motivation to get things done.

Your level of confidence will determine how ambitious your goals are and will help you to keep going when you run into obstacles.

Self confidence is basically a set of beliefs you hold about your innate

potential and ability to accomplish things in life. Therefore, learning how to

build self confidence becomes a matter of changing some fundamental beliefs

about yourself.

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