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In order to become successful in whatever you do you must be able to motivate yourself. If you aren’t motivated you can’t give your full potential and seriously lower the possibility of reaching your goals.

Self motivation is basically moving yourself to achieve something you badly want. Self motivation is not the same as external motivation, if you are motivated by external factors like friends or things happening around you than you’re not self motivated.

Why do I need self motivation?

• If you can’t encourage yourself to reach your goals, who can?
• To find direction in life or in business
• To have the courage to go through with your plans despite negative comments

I’m not motivated, what should I do?

Motivation and positivity go hand in hand. Try to erase all negative things from your life. This can be small things like cleaning up your desk, or big things like getting rid of friends who pull you down. You have to decide for yourself what the negative aspects in your life are and start getting rid of them.

Here are some more self motivation tips.

• Surround yourself with positive people
• Review all your successes and achievements in life, leave out anything negative.
• Make a list of things you’d like to improve on and/or goals to reach, and how you plan to reach them.
• Read inspiring books or websites
• Most important: Do what you love. It’s hard to be motivated for doing something you don’t like doing.

Lack of motivation is normal

It happens to all of us, even the so called “guru’s” lack motivation every now and then. We all face the same kinds of problems in life sometime, and it’s your attitude that decides how you deal with them.

If you lack self motivation and can’t seem to motivate yourself, ask yourself why? Maybe you don’t like doing what you have to do, maybe you can’t focus because your desk or room is a mess, maybe you haven’t achieved a success in a while?

Once you know why you can’t motivate yourself, you can make a plan that works. Review your successes in life, clean your room! Also think long-term. How will life look like in 20 years from now if you don’t do what you have to do. How will you look back at yourself? And how will life look like if you did do what you had to do?

You also shouldn’t be too focussed on your goals. If you really can’t get yourself motivated for a day it is not a big deal. Do something what you love instead, like going out to photograph some wildlife, it clears your head and will get you motivated. Reaching your goals shouldn’t feel like it’s bossing you around, reaching your goals should feel like fun.

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