What is motivation?
Motivation is a word that derives from the Latin motives either motus and means “cause of movement”. In other words, we can say that this stimulus it is what motivates our action, what drives us to act.
When we are motivated, there is something inside us that drives us to do things hard. On the other hand, when we say that we are unmotivated, we do not necessarily stop doing something, but rather we do it superficially.
Every time you work without desire, for example, you do your homework on autopilot. The boredom begins at home, you wake up, have breakfast and then start your professional activity “just because” — since without a job you cannot pay the bills that keep coming.
But shortness of breath does not only affect professional practice, its absence also affects other areas of our lives. From a love relationship that we maintain for comfort, to a college that we attend due to social pressure.
Terrible feelings, right?
Yes, but very common. What happens is that, As essential as it is for personal and professional achievement, this stimulus is highly unstable. In addition to finding it, we have to know how to cultivate it.
How to motivate yourself and stay stimulated?
Motivation can come from oneself, from the environment to which we belong or from the people with whom we live. We have to take advantage of all these sources of stimuli.
Here are some tips to develop your motivation.
- Know yourself: What did you want to be when you grew up? What were the most important things in the world in your incipient vision as a child?
Are they difficult questions? Yes, and a lot! But understanding what your true purposes are is the first step to being a self-motivated person.
In the end when we know better what moves us, external influences — such as a bad day at work, a personal disappointment, or a closed door — will be increasingly less able to impair your movement for action.
- Set goals: Given your reflections on who you want to be, how about starting to see those aspirations as ?
Through them you will achieve, little by little, shape your routineso that it is more in line with your .
The result will be that the actions of your daily life will be easily self-motivated. In the end, you know exactly where you want to go with them and what they bring to your life.
And never underestimate the power of a check on a task or goal! It is revitalizing.
- Have self-discipline: cWith your main life goals clearer, motivation will come naturally. But beware! It is not as spontaneous as it seems and requires a lot of dedication. If you deviate from the goals defined above, the effect will be the opposite of what you want: demotivation for sure!
There is nothing that discourages us more than feeling that we ourselves sabotage our dreams, right?
That’s why, focus on your goals and work hard to keep motivation high.
- focus on the present: There is only one time in our life, the present. The past is something you cannot change and the future, no matter how much we plan it, is uncertain. So focus on the present. Living today and now is the best antidote to demotivation.
- Rest: the brain works better when we are rested. Therefore, get used to sleeping well, taking breaks during work and enjoying the weekend with friends and family.
- Invest in self-development: don’t leave yourself aside learning new things is always another fuel in our life. Remember that you want to transform into an amazing person. So how about starting a course, learning a new language or?
Don’t know what you would like to do for your self-development? There is a very useful tool for that: the. An evaluation of your life project that points out your weak and strong points, with whom you can relate to see your goals come true, among other things.
- Get away from what limits you: the human being is full of thoughts that prevent him from moving forward, which, as a consequence, discourages him.
Those they can make you throw away your mural of dreams. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to them. And if what limits you are places or people, avoid them.
Get inspired!
Do you remember Newton’s 1st Law? The concept of him, although it is used to explain the movement of an object, applies perfectly to what we are dealing with in this text:
“Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform rectilinear motion unless compelled to change its state by forces impressed upon it.”
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This post was published in June 2019 and has been updated to contain more complete and precise information.
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