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What Can You Do? 1.1

The first Step is to not wait around but inspire yourself. For example, you don't want to go to the gym because you're tired after work.

When people Lose Motivation, they often wait for the Inspiration to come back to them. So they wait and wait but no Inspiration comes. But let's look at it in a different way. Instead of wainting for inspiration to come to you, try to inspire ourselves.

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What Can I Do? 2.1

The second Step is to encourage not discourage. Sometimes, we threaten and say harsh things to ourselves because we think that it'll motivate us. Now, this might work for some people but, usually, it's not effective. I mean, who likes being told what to do?

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What Can I Do? 2.2

Encouragement not only makes you more motivated but also makes accomplishing the task more satisfying.

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Conclusions

  1. Identify what is causing your Lack of Motivation.
  2. Don't wait for Inspiration, instead enable yourself by finding your own inspiration.
  3. Don't discourage yourself, instead of encourage.

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Remember...

We all Lose Motivation sometimes, and it's easy to fall into a temporary slump.

If you ever feel like you lack of motivation again, dig deep and find the reasons to do what you need to do.

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What Can I Do? 1.2

Now, let's come back to use our earlier example: if you wanted motivation to go the gym, ask to yourself these 2 simple questions:

  1. Why do I need to do this?
  2. What are the rewards?

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Why People Use To Lose Motivation?

At first, there are two 'Key takeaways':

  1. People Lack of Motivation for a number of reasons.
  2. Sometimes, we say harsh things to motivate ourselves but that isn't always helpful.

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Lack Of Motivation

Lack Of Motivation

There are common reasons why people use to lose motivation and there are some ways to encourage yourself to get the motivation you need to get all your goals done.

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People use to lose motivation when they don't know how to get encouragement

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2. Adopt a bias towards action.

2. Adopt a bias towards action.

All successful people have attributed their success to taking actions. Stop waiting for inspiration and motivation. Successful people don't sit around and wait for their muse to come and inspire them to change the world. They just show up and get to work.

Adopt a Bias Towards Action

Adopt a Bias Towards Action

Most people's approach to work motivation goes like this: they wait to be inspired, then they get to work.

But successful people don’t sit around and wait for inspiration. They just show up and get to work.

An objection to "do what you enjoy"

One big fear we have is that when we let ourselves do what we enjoy, we'd waste even more hours each day on social media, instead of doing important things.

But we know that when we start a session of challenging work, we often need to give ourselves a push

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