How to Motivate Yourself

Posted on October 20th, 2009 by admin in Self Techniques

The simple answer to how to motivate yourself is to decide what you want, decide what is the price you have to pay to achieve it, then accept that you have to pay that price. A simple answer but not an easy solution. However in essence that is what you need to do if you are going to motivate your self and be the success you want to be. However when I say this to my coaching clients it usually strikes fear into their hearts. I often say that is not a problem. If you want to know how to motivate yourself fear can be a useful ally. Fear can often drive us to use our inner resources more effectively and achieve more than if we sit cosily in our comfort zone.

How can you use fear to motivate yourself rather than create a state of paralysis? If you are scared of heights then the worse thing you can do is to look down. To motivate yourself you look straight ahead, appreciate the view and focus on where you want to go not on where you don’t want to go. Many people have a fear of failure which is nothing to do with falling and ultimately dying. It is often just a fear of being embarrassed when they don’t succeed at something. Therefore if they want to try and achieve something, they keep it to themselves and don’t tell anyone. Thus if they don’t succeed it doesn’t matter nobody ne they were trying. Two points here. One is if they were only “trying” it was unlikely they would succeed. The second point is by not being accountable to anyone they didn’t need worry about trying very hard. So make this fear work for you, declare to others what you intend to achieve and that will drive you make sure you take the appropriate actions. However make sure you declare your intentions only to those who are likely to support and not those who would seek to undermine you.

Very often when we are not sure how to motivate ourselves it is because we see only the barriers in our way to achiving what we desire. In this situation we must go back to the goal we want to achieve and ensure that we are clearly focused on its meaning and what the achievement of it will look like. Remember obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off your goal. If you want any more ideas on how to motivate yourself take a look at my self motivational booklist.

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