How To Set Goals To Maintain Motivation

If you got up everyday and go to work in a setting where you are not particularly fond of your job

, yet you have no bills to pay, no family to maintain, you do not need an external source of funds at all and there is nobody at all that you feel it necessary to impress. What would inspire you to get up and go to work on an everyday basis? Chances are that you will wake up, roll over and go back to sleep, especially if you hate to get up early in the mornings.

The fact is that there are very few people in the world that can afford that luxury, so for the rest of the population who needs to work; a goal is generally in sight somewhere, which gives them the motivation to keep going. This goal can be their kids, their bills, a promotion, career recognition, or just plain and simple money, whatever follows after the money is collected is the secondary goal.

A goal can be considered as a drive also, because it may not necessarily be something that you would have normally set out to achieve, but it has become a necessity and as such it is the drive that forces you to get up out of that warm bed to get groomed and dressed to go to an office to do a job that you probably do not enjoy.

Adults are not the only ones who have this problem, kids who have to go to school may also experience a lack of motivation, even if it is only within some of their classes. The fact is that it is drilled in them from a early age that they need an education in order to become successful in life, because not everyone can win the lotto or have a natural born skill that can be amplified into a career, therefore their Goal is success and they remain motivated because they know that they need to succeed at this level in order to move on to greater success. An additional motivational tool for kids is recognition from parents and guardians when they have performed above average, this gives them the drive to continue to do so and in this case their short term goal may only be that praise, attention or recognition that they receive when they have done good, while the long term goal will still remain at the success that will be achieved upon continuing their education and excelling at it into adulthood.

In essence, when you find yourself lacking motivation to a any task at all, stop and remember why you wanted to do it in the first place, if it so happens that you do not want to do it but it is a necessity, then focus on what would happen if you did not make that step and think about whether or not you could live with the outcome.

by: Lindelle Jones

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