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‘People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar’. Top 8 Motivation Hacks will help you to get motivated and stay motivated. A daily dose of either of these will enable you to stay on track with your goals and achieve them.

Motivation Hack #8: Don’t Rely On Motivation

You take a huge risk when you put your efforts and success in hands of motivation. What happens when you run out of motivation? What happens when no matter what you do you can’t get motivated, you simply can’t find the drive, the passion within you to stay on track and achieve your goals?

Some goals cannot be left upto chance or motivation. You simply can’t afford to rely on staying motivated for goals like staying healthy or financially sound. These life areas are so important that whether you are motivated or not, you need to work upon them.

What you need is a fool proof plan to take action and keep working towards your goals no matter what. If you are motivated, great, you get to have fun while working towards your goals. If you are not motivated, it’s all right, you might have to drag yourself everyday, you might feel like complaining everyday, but at least, you are moving in the right direction.

If you keep working on your goals with or without motivation, soon enough, motivation will follow you. Sometimes, you need to immerse yourself into the task and then ask yourself, how can I make this fun? Or how can I make this more challenging? How can I make this interesting enough that I find motivation in it? You might then find your motivation. If not, you are anyways working towards your goals.

When you don’t rely on motivation, you rely on your words, on your integrity. If you are a kind of person who simply has to do what you said you would, by the time you said you would, then all you need to do is say aloud and promise yourself what are you going to do. And simply because you said you would, you will do it. Consider it as a kind of commitment you can’t get out of. You are stuck with it and you have to follow through because you committed in the first place.

What’s important over here is that not only you commit to your goal, but also to small actionable everyday items which lead you towards your goal. Review every night whether you finished your work item or not. If you haven’t finished it, you should have trouble sleeping because you didn’t stay true to your words.

When you value your words, you don’t need any kind of motivation. ‘Because I said so’ is a reason strong enough to get you out of your bed and work towards whatever you want.

Hold yourself firm and accountable towards whatever you promise, be strict with yourself, allow no excuses because what you aim for is worth far more than pain you might get right now in working towards it.

And anytime your pain or boredom or demotivation questions you, simply say that ‘I choose to do so, because I said I will do so’ … and that should be enough.

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