5 sources of motivation

How to get yourself motivated everyday? Firstly, we need to figure out where does motivation come from.

Motivation comes from action

Sometimes it's not because we have motivation and then take action, we just take action and then get motivated.
According to Newton's first law, every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line. To some extent, don't want to do anything is our nature.
Once we start to move, we will continue to move. If we take the first step, it's easier to take the second step, the third step, etc.

Motivation comes from goal

Goal and motivation have causal relationship, goal leads to action.
Set a goal is easy, but you need to pay attention to the following points, otherwise the goal is useless.
1. Goal should not only exist in your brain, write it on paper, this makes the goal more real, not just in imagination, and prevent you from forgetting it.
2. Write down why you set the goal, this will make clear the importance of the goal, only important goals attract your attention.
3. Goal should be detailed. Vague goal is hard to estimate, you may feel nothing changes after doing a lot, then you quit.

Motivation comes from past success

Successful persons are addicted to success, they can not endure lying on a sofa with lots of tasks unfinished. The pleasure of success induce them to move forward. The past success make them believe as long as they do it they will make it. So they are always willing to take action.
So try to accummulate your success stories. Sometimes you need to recall your past success, to imagine the pleasure of success, it is particularly useful.

Motivation comes from habit

Those who take fitness exercises feel uncomfortable if they stop traing for several days. Habit will make it second nature to take the first step, you already have muscle memory, you even don't realize the motivation to move, it just started!

Motivation comes from support

External forces are effective to break the current status. Support from others as an external positive force usually create obvious impact on you.
Besides, failure is inevitable, when failure comes, many people will become decadent. On this occasion, previous sources of motivation shut down, you can only rely on external forces to get out of trouble.
In order to get support, you need to tell others your goal, you need to speak out instead of walking alone!

The above are our experiences and thoughts about sources of motivation, hope you get motivated everyday!
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