Tips for Self Motivation

Motivation is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to act towards a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal-directed behaviors. It can be considered a driving force; a psychological one that compels or reinforces an action toward a desired goal. For example, hunger is a motivation that elicits a desire to eat. Motivation is the purpose or psychological cause of an action.

Motivation has been shown to have roots in physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and social areas. Motivation may be rooted in a basic impulse to optimize well-being, minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure. It can also originate from specific physical needs such as eating, sleeping or resting, and sex.

Motivation is an inner drive to behave or act in a certain manner. "It's the difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day.” These inner conditions such as wishes, desires, goals, activate to move in a particular direction in behavior.

Reasons We Lose Motivation:

There are 3 primary reasons we lose motivation.

·         Lack of confidence – If you don’t believe you can succeed, what’s the point in trying?

·         Lack of focus – If you don’t know what you want, do you really want anything?

·         Lack of direction – If you don’t know what to do, how can you be motivated to do it?

So here are a number of self motivation tips.

1. Follow your Dreams: Choose an activity in which you are interested and you value as being worthy. When you follow your passion your energy will be joyfully focused on the task at hand. You will reach peak performances in activities that you enjoy doing.

2. Seek out new hobbies: Continuously exploring new activities will demand stretching out your capabilities and learning of new skills. You will have lifetime enjoyment and vitality.

3. It is further noted that activities that challenge our competencies support motivation. However, the challenge has to be perceived as reachable. Too difficult challenges can kill the enthusiasm. Exceptionally, for some people the bigger the challenge, the more motivated they are. Find out for yourself as to where you belong.

4. Seek out environments where you have support and move away from environments that do not support you. When you set your own goals, direction, pace and evaluation, you are more creative and engaged. This enhances your performance and builds your self-esteem. Take control of your time.

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5. Faith in life: Self motivation also comes from a person’s perception, meaning whether a person has faith in life or sees life as being unfair, difficult or distorted. A person who believes in the positive outcome by abiding to a certain number of rules will be self-motivated. A person, who cannot make the relationship between his/her own behavior and the outcomes, will not be self motivated. You can choose to be either optimistic or a pessimist. At the end of the day it is your choice. Again I would like to emphasize on taking control of all the situations in your life.

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