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Maintaining Motivation

by Damien Clarke

•   3 Keys to Maintaining Motivation

There are three keys to maintaining motivation.

1. DESIRE - to want to achieve your goals.

Only you can change yourself.  You make the decision.  If failing to act on your desires meant that you would be sent to jail, would you change your behaviour?  If the answer is yes, it proves that your desire is at the base of the problem.

You must truly have the desire to achieve your goals and be committed to the tasks required to achieve them.  Too many people give up at the first hurdle or obstacle they encounter.  Their creative subconscious needs only to find one reason to take them back to where they think they belong - and that is having them believe that they are not capable or not worthy of success.  That is the truth of goal-setting and also why some people don’t believe it works.  Now you know better!

2. BELIEF - that you can achieve your goals.

Confidence in your ability to succeed will drive you to overcome obstacles and setbacks.  Think of where you are now and the skills you have acquired to get you to this point. 

Most people went to school.  While not everyone may have finished to final year, a number of years were spent attending countless classes and undertaking hundreds of tests and assignments all for a result that you believed would affect you for the rest of your life.  You may have believed that you were not worthy of certain vocations.  Now is the time to get rid of those beliefs because they serve you no purpose for your future growth.  Many of the world’s most successful people never finished school and some were kicked out.  However, the quality these individuals s hared was a belief in their ability to succeed.

3. STRATEGY - to achieve your goals.

Your strategy needs to include short-term goals, which are specific and measurable.  We always need to measure our progress so that we can alter our direction if we stray off-track.  Too many people set long-term goals with no short-term goals.  The result is often disappointment and they walk away believing that goal-setting doesn’t work.

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