How To Get Motivated

To be successful in life you have to get enough motivation to do something.

We don’t get rewarded for good intentions, knowledge or just for great ideas. If that were the case then the most successful people would be philosophers and professors.

While we all need good intentions, knowledge and ideas are not enough unless you are motivated enough to do something about them.

There is power in action…otherwise it is just a dream. Here are some tips to help you get started getting more motivation in your life.

Get a Big Enough WHY

We all do things for a reason, whether it is through inaction or action, they are all a choice. Unless we have a big enough reason “Why” we need to take action, then there is just to much momentum to keep on doing what you always have been doing. And how do you expect different results all of a sudden just doing what you’ve always bee doing.

A great way to get a big enough “why” to take action, is doing a writing exercise where you spend some time to write out all the benefits you are going to get if you take action. Picture what your life would be like if you were to take action today. Then write out what your life would be like if you didn’t take action, what would you miss out on and what would you lose. By giving yourself enough reasons to take action you will also give yourself the conviction to get motivated.

Get Started Today

A common problem why people have difficulty to get motivated is that they always postpone what they need to do today till tomorrow. Have you ever heard someone who is all excited about changing their diet and introducing an exercise regime so that they can lose weight. Only to hear at the end of the conversation that they will start it first thing Monday morning.

The best time to start something is yesterday. The second best time is today. Stop putting off what you need to do until sometime in the future because the future never happens, you only have control over your present.

Be Accountable

A great way to get motivated to take action is to tell someone what you want to do or change in your life. Tell them the details and when you will actually do it by. That way you now have someone who knows about your plans and deadlines. None of us want to disappoint people in our lives, or be embarrassed by the failure of reaching our goals, so this is a great way to get motivated to get things done.

Set a Deadline

A deadlines is a great way to get you motivated especially when it starts to loom closer and closer. We have all gone through those times during school or when we had to do an assignment only to put it off until the deadline was almost there. Eventually we ended up cramming to finish it till the wee hours of the morning prior to the due date.

Deadlines can get you motivated when nothing else seems to work. Of course this is not the ideal way to get yourself motivated, but if it gets you to take  action it is better than nothing.

Create Urgency

The reason most people aren’t motivated to make changes in their lives is because there just is not enough urgency to take action. They have a false sense of belief that tomorrow will always be waiting and they will get started. It wasn’t until the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York that most people woke up and realized that there just isn’t any guarantee that tomorrow is actually going to come for them.

The terrorist attacks woke up many people enough to take action and review their lives. People ended up motivated enough to drastically change many areas of their lives and put a sense of balance into their world.

But why do we need a terrorist attack to make such a decision?

At the end of the day you cannot rely on someone else to get you motivated. Others might produce short term results, but in the long run the only person that can give you the motivation you need is YOU.

To be successful in your profession or your business you MUST TAKE ACTION!