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5 Ways To Boost Your Motivation According To Science
Last Updated on October 20, 2021 by ELLEASH
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5 Ways To Boost Your Motivation According To Science
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Hey hey my lovely entrepreneurs,
Is it me or has the fact that we are in Q4, completely zapped the motivation out of you?!
I know for me, I am mega productive early-August, when I start preparing my school year, and it gets super busy in September when little C goes back to school and I go back to work!
So when October rolls around, I am already reaching for my multi-vitamins and hoping my energy levels will keep me afloat until Christmas!
But it’s usually the opposite and I am feeling less motivated and productive, come October.
That’s why I thought it would be a great idea to actually see how you (and in passing, I) could boost your motivation.
The Science
Educational Psychologist Kou Murayama, PhD says that motivation is important in almost every aspect of human behavior.
He states that a person’s decisions and actions regarding the choices they make are heavily influenced by their level of motivation.
It is undeniable that if you decide to do something, following through with it is harder and unsuccessful when you lack the drive to actually get it done.
According to Murayama, motivation is vital to education. Not having the scafolding or strong base knowledge, when you are a child, that starting something is good, but actually going through with it is even better, could possibly become a liability in your future.
His study also looked at the types of rewards that worked when trying to motivate. What are you trying to gain? Are you more interested in something that is why you’re doing it? Is it because you will find recognition in your work, that you are driven to work hard? Or is there something else?
There is no doubt that finding the motivation to start, and complete, a task, takes work. It is also a given that there will be roadblocks along the way.
Your job is to surpass those barriers and figure out ways to navigate the obstacles.
My job, today, is to help you find ways in which you can regain your momentum and guide you back to your inner drive and bring you to your success!
How To Boost Your Motivation
Tip n°1: Simplify Your Life
If you’re anything like most people, you tend to keep things for ages, not really knowing what to do with the items, once you’ve found them again in some lost corner or your house!
Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” and this cannot be any truer.
If you overload your life with too much “stuff”, it just becomes way too complicated and you can tend to lose focus on the things that matter the most in your life.
When we are surrounded by distraction it becomes difficult to focus on the things that matter the most.
Simplifying your life doesn’t need to be hard nor unpleasant! On the contrary there are many ways in which you can achieve to feel less overwhelmed when it comes to simplifying your life.
The best way to do so is to actually get rid of the items that create stress and anxiety in your life. A good, hard, session of decluttering can help you feel so much better!
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TO CHANGE
You can also let go of activities that serve no purpose or produce no benefits. With less to distract you, you can focus more on what is really important and you will feel more motivated.
2) Focus on Your Achievements
Failure can have a really damaging effect on your motivation. Professor of psychology Timothy A Pychyl Ph.D. suggests that our motivation grows as we focus on our competencies. If, however, we focus on our failures we start to develop a fear of failing. This can of course lead us to not try something in case it does not work out. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dont-delay/200902/fear-failure).
We all have success and failure in our lives and it is up to us which we decide to focus on. If we can celebrate our successes and view our failures as learning opportunities, we can build a solid motivational base.
3) Set Goals That Are Measurable and Achievable
In order to support a focus on our successes we must create a regular flow of achievement in our lives. This can be easily accomplished by making sure that as we progress toward a final aim, we give ourselves achievable goals.
Goals that are significant but can be met with regularity are powerful motivators. After each achieved goal we are given a feeling of success which will motivate us to embark on the next steps.
4) Start Positive Habits
Working outside of your ultimate goals you can also boost your motivation with other unrelated life choices. Practicing good new habits can have a huge effect on your general motivation levels. If, for example, you decide to learn a new skill for fun then make this a regular habit. As you progress with this skill and improve you prove to yourself that you are a motivated person. This will carry over into other aspects of your life as well.
5) Improve Your Health
Everyone has, at some point in their life, felt so ill that they simply do not want to do anything but feel sorry for themselves. This is often not a long standing issue but if we are generally unhealthy this can impact our motivation. This is why a good diet and regular exercise can help boost our natural motivation. If we feel good, we are optimistic, happier and have more energy to get things done.
THE TAKEAWAY
Elle Ash xo
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