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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Why You Don't Get Motivated


If you find that you're not motivated to achieve your goals or you're just not getting things done - then you first have to get a handle on what is preventing you from moving forward.

These blocks are the reasons or excuses that you've accepted that prevent you from achieving your goals. Before we can change them you have to be aware of what they are.

You can start by answering the following questions:
Is there something that you've been meaning to do but just haven't been able to for the longest time? I'm not talking about a specific goal - just something that you've been meaning to do but haven't been able to.
What's the reason?
Think about it.
Why have you been putting it off for so long? Write down your answer and you'll discover your excuses - these are the reasons why you're not getting motivated to achieve your goal or complete your task.

Now take a look at some of your bigger goals and do the same thing. You can think about a course that you've been meaning to take, a book you want to read, learning something that could change your life, pursuing a hobby, starting a business, increasing your finances, getting into a relationship, anything.
Write down all the reasons or excuses that you come up with for not doing what you wanted to do.
Here are some of the common excuses and reasons for people not doing what they want to do:

  • I haven't got the time.
  • There are just too many things to do.
  • I'll start on Monday (does something magical happen on Monday that doesn't happen on any other day?) 
  • First I want to get through this project then I'll get to that.
  • My friends won't understand.
  • It just takes too much time.
  • I'm going on vacation and will do it when I get back.
  • I can't concentrate.
  • It's just too much work.
  • I don't deserve it.
And the list goes on and on and on.
In the end you never complete what you wanted to do.
Why?
Because you've developed a habit of rationalizing your way out of getting something done and you've bought into your excuses. You now believe your excuses and your reasons for not doing something are valid and this is why nothing ever gets done.
So think about the excuses or reasons for not creating the changes or improvements you want in your life?
Write them down because you're going to learn how to you get past or eliminate your excuses.
The most common excuse or reason is time.
You might find yourself saying that you don't have time or you'll get to it later - when you have more time.
But what's the reason for creating that excuse.

The truth is that it's often really not about time.Let's take a look at a typical day for most people.
You have 24 hours in a day. You sleep for 8, leaving 16. You work 8 hours or even 10 hours a day that leaves you with 6 or 8 hours a day.
Maybe you spend an hour commuting everyday that brings it down to 5 or 7 hours a day.
You cook, eat and relax - does that take 5 or 7 hours everyday?

No it doesn't. The truth is that if you just spent even a few minutes to an hour a day working towards your goals you'd achieve them.
The real reason is not time! Instead it's that you've accepted the reason or the excuse of not having enough time. You now believe that you don't have the time so you no longer have the time.

Your mind and subconscious mind have accepted this belief. So instead of helping you achieve your goals - your mind and subconscious mind look for ways for you to run out of time so that you never achieve anything. You may end up doing things for no reason - or take too long to do something instead of focusing on and achieving your goals.
You've actually given your mind and subconscious mind the exact opposite instruction of what you really want.

In order to turn things around you have to re-train your mind, give your subconscious mind new instructions so that it helps you achieve your goals.
Look at the reasons you have and change them to reflect what you want to happen.
Continue focusing on what you want.
If you say you don't have enough time then tell yourself that you do have the time that you need.
If you feel you haven't got enough experience - tell yourself that you do have the experience that you need.
Regularly think of what you want instead of what you don't want. When you do this you'll begin re-training the mind. Start giving your subconscious mind new instructions - so that it helps you achieve your goals.
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