How to Get Motivated
Vision to Thrive
English - June 25, 2020 15:27 - 10 minutes - 21.1 MBEntrepreneurship Business Careers balance businesscoach businessmentor careerchange dreams entrepreneur goals keynotespeaker levelup marketing Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Are you waiting to feel good to feel motivated? If so, you might be waiting for a lifetime. Feelings are fickle. Sometimes we feel good, and sometimes we don’t. So our feelings can’t be the barometer for our motivation. We’ve got to be present and be intentional to get motivated.
Try these 3 easy steps to get motivated …
(1) Stop feeding yourself negative content … limit your engagement with the news and social media. 10 minutes per day is more than enough to educate yourself about the information you need to know. Then you’re moving on.
(2) Write down 1 thing that brings you joy or moves your business forward … it doesn’t need to be a big thing. It could be taking a walk, making a phone call to a loved one, doing 1 thing on your business to do list, or reading a gratitude journal entry. The exercise of writing down that one thing is the key. Not the result, or the magnitude of the one thing.
(3) Do that 1 thing. The action part is essential. Taking the action is not related to how you feel in the moment. Just do it.
These 3 steps are super simple, right? Over time, taking these steps each day with just one small (different) thing will lead to consistent motivation, and eventually, to big results. But remember, whether you feel good or not before you begin these steps is irrelevant. You are going to take these 3 steps regardless of how you feel. That’s everything. The more you take action, the more positive energy you will feel, and the easier it will be to stay motivated!
And don’t forget to give yourself a little grace when you can’t bring yourself to take these steps. Get up the next day and start over again. To get and stay motivated, just wash, rinse, and repeat as much as you can.
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