Sustaining\nmotivation over a long period of time can be extremely tough for even the best\nof people. How can you possibly stay motivated at a time when your to-do list\nruns into three pages or when you just got a rejection letter? Motivation is\nnot exactly magic. Motivation does not come packed in a bottle, neither is\nthere a little blue pill for it. However, it is something you can tap into.\nAlmost every inspirational author, speaker and life coach that you see on\nYouTube and at public forums has his own tips to share, but over my decades of\nobserving super-successful, high-achieving people, I have realised certain\nfundamentals to sustaining motivation, whether you are trying to put together a\n10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle or conquer Mt. Everest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\ncan be many reasons behind getting off track with goals. Self-doubt, the\nnever-ending fear that we will not succeed, and concerns that we are not\nsetting realistic goals are just few of them. What is important to remember and\nremind yourself here is that you can change this goal if you want. You can keep\ngoing, you can revise it, or you can dump it altogether. At a time when\nwe are experiencing doubts about ourselves, it is easy to feel like\nwe have become almost powerless; it is very easy to feel like we do not have a\nchoice. However, most often, we do. It is important to remind yourself that you\nare in charge of your destiny. Since the consequences would be yours, the path\nto be taken to those consequences should also be yours. At times when the going\ngets tough, we begin to feel like the choices we made (sometimes long ago) are\nnot our own. It is important to remind ourselves that we are the ones who\noriginally set this goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whenever\nyou doubt yourself, look back at what you have achieved till now. If you have been\ntaking steps towards your goal for a while, it is possible that you are in no\nman\u2019s land right now\u2014far away from the starting point and nowhere close to your\ndestination. Here, in the midst of feeling lost, it can be great to take some\ntime to consider all that you have already accomplished. All long-haul goals\ntake multiple, incremental steps to attain. Pat yourself on the back, and\nremind yourself of these achievements that you have made over the years.\nCongratulate yourself and prepare for the next lap of your journey. At times\nwhen you are frustrated about lack of movement toward a goal, sit down and make\na list of the steps you have already taken to reach it, and the results that\nthose steps have resulted into over the years. This clarity of thought goes a\nlong way in releasing those feelings of frustration and gets you ready for the\nupcoming battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep\nin mind your reasons that initially led you to this path and remind yourself\nabout them time and again. There would be many times when you would simply want\nto quit. You only have these thoughts when you have been trying long enough. To\nfollow through with a longer-term goal, we need to have solid reasons that make\nsense to us. With that said, goals are not exactly set in stone. Like\neverything in life, it is good to approach your goals with flexibility and\nopen-mindedness. If due to some reasons you can\u2019t successfully remind yourself\nof your initial reasons for going for your desired goal, and get re-ignited\nabout those pious reasons that forced you to take up this journey, then it\nmight be a good time to reassess where you stand at present. As long as you are\nbeing true to yourself, there is no shame in readjusting your goal and\nregaining your focus. Only you can decide what is best for you, and that can\nchange over time. It is important to give ourselves permission to go for goals\nwith full-on focus and gusto, or to change them, or put them aside for a while,\nor whatever else we decide is right at that time; because we are an outcome of\nour own choices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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