To make motivation work you need to get motivated. In order to do this there has to be an incentive to spur you on, and these are called motivation starters. The whole key to being able to master motivation and make it consistent is to start small. The clich that "Rome wasn't built in a day" is very true and the same goes for motivators. The majority of successful people in the world today are as such, because they are self motivators. You can bet though they had a lot of gung hoe motivation failures before they finally got the knack of it.
So what are motivation starters? They are a desire for something. Of course we all want financial freedom, the big houses with the in ground pools in the backyard and to be able to travel wherever we like. Nothing wrong with this, but first lets start with getting the bills paid, and having the some money left over in our pockets the day after pay day.
Start with the motivation starters in the here and now. The few bucks left over after pay day might be a good one. If you are like most people when payday comes around you pay out all the bills, then you have a certain amount of dollars to live on for the rest of the week. You spread this out and it gets pretty thin towards the end of the week. As soon as the bills are paid out, take out a $5. and tuck it away. The rest is what you live on for the week. The motivation starter here is to motivate yourself to having this $5. tucked away when next pay day rolls along. Now motivate yourself to tuck away $6. bucks the next week. Keep doing this until you have reached the limit of what you can possibly tuck away.
You are soon going to find that this becomes a challenge and you will be amazed at the fact that you did without that $5. then $6 and so on until you have reached your max. In fact you will most likely find that you have pushed yourself up to putting away a substantial sum each week without even realizing you could do this. Your motivation starter has just motivated you into saving money that you didn't know you could do.
You can use this little exercise in other areas of your life as well. It's a matter now of becoming innovative with your motivator starters.