How to Maintain Your Daily Motivation

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You’ll find that your motivation varies from day to day and probably even during the day. This can, at best, delay your progress in life and, at worst, cause you major problems such as the loss of a job. You need to be able to keep your motivation levels up no matter what. Here’s a method.

What affects your daily motivation?

It’s your current circumstances together with where you are heading. Therefore, to keep yourself in a state of drive you need to make sure you are in a good space and are moving towards a positive position. Let’s look at these two aspects and how you can ensure that they are there with you as you move through life.

Your Current Space

At a most basic level, these areas of functioning are all affected by sleep, exercise and nutrition. If any of these are compromised, you will be starting off from a low base. In addition to these, you need to have the ability to cope with any stresses that cross your path.

This requires a certain level of mental and emotional maturity. Tending to your health and overall wellbeing is an absolute must.

Another important factor is what you are allowing into your space. You need to be very aware of the tasks, people and environments that drain your energy and those that give you energy.

Then you can manage these.

In other words, maximize energy-giving areas and minimize energy-depleting areas. You can even follow something that really drains you with something that you find a huge upper. Managing energy is part of managing motivation.

Always bring pleasure into your day. You can view it as a reward or you can see it as part of your life’s balance. You must never deny yourself those special moments in life; they are often what get you through.

You can even link them to tasks with which you are struggling, for example, listen to your favorite music while you are tidying the house or talk to a friend while you are washing dishes.

Where You Are Heading

Have your goals written up. Read them each day as motivation for your plans. Draw up a schedule of your progress and targets. Noting your achievements each day brings huge satisfaction which builds your motivation for the next day. You need to keep a positive frame of mind to maintain any motivation.

Affirmations are an effective method for achieving this. Draw up some affirmations that seem reasonable (don’t promise the world) and fill you with enthusiasm. Go through these in your less productive moments.

Remember that motivation doesn’t have to be something that you experience at the start of a project and then it wanes, no; it is a space that you can maintain day in and day out. Daily motivation feels great and if you can keep it up most of the time, you’ll be enjoying life more than before.

This article was contributed by Juliet du Preez