How To Stay Stuck on Motivated

How To Stay Stuck on Motivated!

Finding that one ‘thing’ that motivates, inspires and drives you forward, is perhaps the easy part.

Sticking with it, that’s what most people find the tricky part.

And even if you have already succeeded in identifying what motivates you, the temptation to give in to (dare we say) procrastination are much more powerful than getting yourself up and going.

Lacking motivation or deliberately making yourself feel demotivated is a habit.

Seriously, something isn’t quite right when you refuse to wake up on time to get work.

Or, when you allow yourself to be overwhelmed by the power of procrastination when you have deadlines to meet.

You know that something is going wrong inside you when the task you have to finish several days ago sits idly on your desk, untouched.

And something isn’t right when you can’t even force yourself to confront a problem that has been gnawing your will to live fully.

You may even lack the motivation to accept that you are not motivated!

So how do you build your motivation from the ground up?

Start with…

Identifying the things that zap out your motivation.

It always starts with very simple things in a very natural manner.

Then it starts to affect the other aspects of your life, which are not entirely connected with the thing that triggered your lack of motivation.

Maybe you just didn’t feel like getting up after your alarm rung off one morning. The next day, you did the same thing and on and on until you developed the bad habit of not feeling motivated to do anything.

Start with the exercise of listing down the areas in your life where you find no motivation to pursue at all and the particular things which you think makes you feel disheartened.

This will help you gain some perspective on the entire issue.

You can even derive solutions in simply knowing the cause. This will shed clarity on your issues with motivation.

Then you can move on to evaluating the risks and benefits of not feeling motivated.

Believe us, there are benefits to having no motivation – immediate self-gratification in the form of rest for one. And there are risks, for sure. Plenty of them. And the risks oftentimes outweigh the benefits.

Discovering the risks and benefits of not feeling motivated could be very enlightening.

In general, you would realise that it is never worth it to procrastinate, to give in to the temptation of hating to move a finger to finish your tasks, or to deliberately believe that it is much more gratifying to lie around and do nothing.

Finally, commit yourself to change.

This is not easy, it never was. But try to set the date for mustering your sense of motivation.