5 Ways To Stay Motivated

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It is no secret that we have to do our best in order to be successful in life. Successful people often mention that staying motivated is one of the important factors to achieve great accomplishments. However, it can be difficult to do so with all the negativity that surrounds us most of the time. Adding salt to the wound, we can barely avoid ourselves from these sources of negative energy. 

This issue makes us to ponder how exactly do the successful people manage to stay motivated all the time and do not steer away from their objectives. Here are the five ways to stay on the right path. 

1. Read Inspirational Quotes and Articles.

Make a small notebook of motivational and inspiring quotes and keeps it with you all the time. There are vast amount of positive quotes that can be easily found through the internet. When you are feeling down, read through the notebook and relates them to yourself. After all, we are just human beings that are easily influenced by the surroundings, be it positive or negative.

It is important to spend at least 15 minutes of your morning to flip through these quotes as these uplifting sentences will give you a boost of encouragement as well as reminder that you are competent enough to achieve great things, which directly makes you having a great start of the day.

2. Talk to Positive People. 

As the saying goes, “what goes around comes back around.” Engaging yourself in conversations filled with negativity all the times will often cause your mind to be poisoned by negative thoughts. Hence, it is important to create a group of positive friends or acquaintances in your social circle who wants to help you to succeed.

When you find yourself caught in the middle of a conversation that is deviating from the positive way, try to change the topic to something better. In addition, it is better to remain silent than blurting out negative words when you have nothing else to interact with other people. Spend time with positive people. The gains are most likely to be always fruitful. 

3.  Celebrate Every Accomplishment.

Give yourself a reward whenever you complete a task or goal that you have set for yourself-be it huge or small. As you can see, the idea of celebrating our own accomplishment is always pleasant. It does not only play a vital role in staying motivated, but also elevate your mood whenever you recognise your progress towards the destination.

The rewards can be anything, from simple snacks or movie time to throwing a lavish pool party. Your accomplishments may not seem worthy to be celebrated by others, yet you are the one who are aware of the multiple breakthroughs that you have made in order to accomplish your goals. Reward yourself, you are worth it!

4. Set Achievable Goals.

The first reaction when we are given an assignment or task is being overwhelmed by the amount of the things that we have to do. Nothing can be more demotivating than being given a short period of time to complete a complicated goal. The trick is to break down the job into small chunks. Set realistic daily goals with clear deadlines that can be done by the end of the day.

Besides, it will be more effective to jot down the bits of jobs on a paper and stick it to a place that is always visible to you most of the time. This will remind you of the tasks that you have yet to complete throughout the day. These small goals that you have achieved daily will create ripple effects that make your life more organised and leads you one step closer to your ambition.

5. Feed Your Mind With Positive Affirmations.

Although action speak louder than words, words is actually the most powerful weapon as it can simply influence your minds without involving ourselves in physical contacts with others. List out all the positive affirmations that are relevant to you and speak out the affirmations to yourself daily, regardless of the situations that you are going through.

These affirmations will gradually be embedded into your minds and your mind will attract all the positive things in life. Rhonda Byrne emphasizes on the “Law of Attraction’ through her famous self-help book, “The Secret”. She claims that positive thinking can create life-changing results such as health improvement, increased happiness and the likes.