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The Motivation Machine: How to Get & Stay Motivated for Any Goal - Nat Eliason
Getting Motivated to Start a Project
- Increase your reason to start a project, by increasing the value of starting it.
- Increase your expectancy of succeeding at that project.
- Decrease your reasons to delay, by increasing urgency, using a deadline.
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In order to stay motivated, you need a purpose
Without purpose, motivation does not stand a chance.
So start thinking about your purpose, what makes your inner motivation stay alive and do your best to accomplish it.
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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
Improve your personal accountability
Making sure you hold yourself accountable in order to keep up the motivation and, therefore, accomplish your goals, is easier than it sounds.
All you have to do is to commit and express your commitment also in front of others. This will lead to you wanting to be consistent and, therefore, it will make it harder to give up.