Not Feeling It? 8 Tips To Staying Motivated

In life, there may be times when negativity seems to surround you, suffocating your dreams and destroying your hope. When that happens, many go through their day being saturated with negativity and accepting it as a way of life. While you can’t always control what happens to you, you can control how you respond to it. Seek to create a positive environment for yourself and you’ll begin to become more motivated to achieve your dreams and goals. Here are 8 ways to stay motivated through hard times:

1. Visualize the results. Sometimes you have to keep your eyes on the prize. Staying focused is going to be your biggest helper.
2. Focus on your own goals. Set goals for yourself, whether in life or business or both and stay focused on that alone.
3. Remember your why. This goes back to staying focused on your own goals. Remember why you started and keep working to fulfil that goal.
4. Be Consistent. You should be working on your goals in some capacity every day.
5. Break down bigger goals into smaller ones. Sometimes big goals can make you feel overwhelmed so breaking them down into smaller, more realistic goals can help you stay motivated to keep going.
6. Get help when needed. Whether it’s talking with someone about your struggles or simply getting an accountability partner, having someone in your corner can be the push you need to keep moving forward.
7. See the big picture. This step goes hand in hand with numbers 1 and 3. Remembering why you started and visualizing the finish line can be the push you need to keep going. In seeing the big picture, see yourself finishing your goals and get excited about how accomplished you’ll feel after crushing it.
8. Resist the urge to compare and compete. Nobody can do what you do quite like you so resist the urge to compare your journey to someone else’s. What’s for you is for you and your process won’t look or be the same. The same goes for competition.

In the end, staying positive is the key to self-motivation. You may not feel like it everyday but going through a few of these steps each day can keep you on track to reach your goals. #GoalGetEm!