Gregory Harris

I was speaking with a lady (will call her MJ for the purpose of this article) a few days ago. MJ is in her late twenties. She is petite, 5ft 2″, tanned with straight hair that drops past her shoulders. She is a professional in the corporate world with a fortune 500 company, a hard worker and very ambitious. I know this to be true, because she has been my client for some time now.

Whilst we chatted in our last coaching session, she was in awe of an inspirational figure in her working place. Her eyes would sparkle and her face was flooded with a big smile when she was telling me about her new inspirational figure – a role model that she worked with – her boss.

She spoke about how at his age (in his 50′s) he had an extremely good physique and had taken good care of him self. He had a great family, was successful in his professional life and more importantly he seemed like a happy guy all the time. He seemed to have it all.

When I quizzed MJ if she had taken the time to speak with her boss about what helped him achieve the all round success he had, she quickly replied, ‘yes I did’- nodding at a million miles an hour.

I asked him, “What one thing would you say has helped you achieve all the success that you have? What one thing has got you to the point where you are happy in your day to day life?”

Before sharing her bosses’ reply, she quickly mentioned that she had hoped to receive a good deal of information on what he did to get to where he was.

‘Instead what I got was two words’, she said.

What is the reason you want to be motivated? Just answering this question truthfully can be a great way to get daily motivation. Combining this method with some of the other methods below has proven to work well for others in the past. The chances are good that some of the methods outlined will work well for you too.

Motivate Yourself In Seven Steps

1. Share Your Plans. To stop procrastinating, tell someone close to you what you intend to do and this will usually get you back into the mood to continue. Find a good listener that will also be able to give you encouragement. This will work well to get you motivated if your plans are ones that you really want to achieve.

2. Utilize Your Desires. Visualize the end result of your goal. Imagination is a powerful motivator that is used to sign people up to get rich quick scams. Good salesmen can have you picturing yourself in a dream home within minutes, which is a great motivator to get your deposit together, or sign the dotted line. You can use this tactic to your own advantage.

3. Utilize Pain. Use Neuro-Linguistic Programming to understand the pain involved with not taking action. For example, picturing your kids in jail for drug use can motivate you to have a talk with them about drugs before it gets to that stage. This will help the act of linking rewards to action. Linking pain to not taking action is a great motivator.

4. Take An Interest. Having an interest in your goal will help keep you motivated enough to follow through but if you don’t have an interest and you still need to complete it, just remember the reasons you have for beginning in the first place.