HOW TO BE A SELF-MOTIVATED

Getting in mindset

Being self-motivated means being ready for driven, focused discussion and behaviour. It also means being sharp and smart enough not to be manipulated and to be open to positive learning. Being in this state of mind is the challenge! luckily you have every tool at your disposal to get started right now.

Get Positive

It's pretty hard to get anything done when we're stuck 

on thoughts like,"Ugh, life sucks and it's raining." 

Thoughts like those make uswant to just curl  up in our beds 

until someone physically drags us out. You can't do that! 

Positive thoughts are the only way you'll even find motivation

 in the first place. If you find yourself thinking negative thoughts, 

just stop. Don't finish it. Divert your motivation! 

This task in front of you? It's totally doable and you have 

the abilities to do it. Any other thinking will keep

 you from even trying.

Get Confident

Along with thinking positive about your word,

you gotta think positive about you. If you think you're 

incapable, it'll seriously put a damper on the amount of 

effort you give this task. Why would you bother doing

 something you don't  think you can do? Exactly. 

You won't. To get started, count your successes.

 What do you have going for you? What have you done

 in the past that was owesome? What resources do you

 have at you disposal? Think all the things you've

 achieved in the past. For what reason would you 

not be able to achieve what you want now?! 

You've done similar things before.

Get Hungry

When Les Brown talks about motivation, 

he repeats over and over, "You'll gotta be hungry!" 

What he's saying here is that you have to actually want it.

 You can't imagine a life without it. Thinking something

  would be nice, being full of velleities won't get you anywhere.

 Want it. If you don't really , really want it, what are you

 doing trying to motivate yourself? Sometimes it involves

 a little twisting to convince yourself that you want it. 

Struggling getting to work? Well, is that a path

 to anything else? If you've been really hankering 

for a vocation to Hawaii, think about it like that.

 You really, really wanna get to Hawaii-- 

and working will get you there. It's lot easier to do 

something you don't wanna to do when you have

 a purpose in mind-- a purpose that you are hungry for.

Know setbacks will happen

It's important to go into a behavior

 (possibly even a lifelong habit) knowing that there are 

will failures along the way. Being a perfectionist about

 yourself will just leave your frustrated and tempted 

to give up. There will be times when you fail. 

You just have to know that you're capable of getting back 

up and better yet, that you will. Your failures or setbacks

 have nothing to do with you and everything to do with you

 and everything to do with being human. They happen. 

Sometimes they'll happen because of you 

(not every decision can be stellar), but sometimes they'll 

happen because of circumstances that are beyond your control. 

Going into this with a level head will benefit 

you greatly in the long run.