Success is more about hard work than anything else. Working hard and striving is essential towards having a successful career. The only problem is to motivate yourself to spend most of your day working. Many people like to philosophize about success as if it was some sort of enigma. However, most of those who have made great success in their careers will agree that, for the most part, it is about the hard working sweat. But, this can also present a problem. Working over 60 hours a week can get frustrating and many people cannot find the reasons to keep moving forward. Luckily, this is a topic that has been around for a while and there are many different kinds of solutions people offer. If you are one of those people who is having problems with focusing their commitment and energy towards your goals, then you have come to the right place. Here are some of the best things you can do to deal with this problem:
1. Make a penalty and reward system for yourself
Not all effective methods for self-motivation are sophisticated. This is a technique that is also used for dogs, but it can work for us too – a simple penalty and reward system. When you make a deal with yourself, the most important thing to have in mind is your personality. Make a deal you cannot refuse, and you can do it with both negative and positive incentives. For example, if you want to learn to do something, set a date when you must learn that particular thing and decide on a reward for yourself. This method may not sound very innovative but it works, and it can carve a road to success. Once you have learned how to do this with smaller things, you can use the same method on bigger issues. You would be surprised how many successful entrepreneurs use this same method.
2. Make your goals clear
One of the best tricks you can use when you are down on the ground, feeling exhausted, is not any kind of energy boosting technique or productivity hack, but rather clearing all of your doubts by reminding yourself what you are doing and why you are doing it. When you are working all the time and it gets hard, try not to think about the hard work you are performing at the moment, but rather think of this work as part of the path towards achieving your goals. The struggle of having to do something is usually in our head and this is why it important to rationalize your actions in order to perform them more easily.
3. Create useful habits
Motivating yourself to do something a couple of times can work. However, if you do it too many times, it can become a serious strain on your mind. By using the sheer force of motivation, only you will exhaust your brain and make a counter effect. The alternative to this is to start creating seemingly small habits which will program your brain to deal with certain actions a lot easier. For example, if your job includes standing on your feet for the most part, then you should start to have walks during the day, so that you can get used to being on your feet at all times.
4. Take care of your body
A lot of times, the problem is not mental, but physical. You can have all the willpower in the world, but if your body doesn’t have the required physical energy needed to do your work, then motivating is going to be a problem. If you want to be successful, you will have to work hard, but still, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t go to sleep when you feel tired. Try to go to bed earlier and then wake up early in the morning. Forcing yourself to work while exhausted will not do you much good as you won’t be very productive in that state. It is better to take a power nap and refresh your body.
I hope these tricks will help you keep yourself motivated without putting a strain on your mind and body. Make sure that you evaluate yourself thoroughly so that you can recognise what needs to be changed in the way you perform your everyday routines.
