[CyberTOPS] 20 Ways to Sustain Motivation When You're Struggling

[Leslie]

20 Ways to Sustain Motivation When You're Struggling
The second half of motivation is to keep yourself going when you don't feel
the same excitement as you did in the beginning. Perhaps something new has
come into your life and your old goal isn't as much of a priority anymore.
Perhaps you skipped a day or two and now you can't get back into it. Perhaps
you screwed up and got discouraged.

If you can get yourself excited again, and keep going, you'll get there
eventually. But if you give up, you won't. It's your choice - accomplish the
goal, or quit. Here's how you can stop from quitting, and get to your goal:

1.	Hold yourself back. When I start with a new exercise program, or any
new goal really, I am rarin' to go. I am full of excitement, and my
enthusiasm knows no boundaries. Nor does my sense of self-limitation. I
think I can do anything. It's not long before I learn that I do have
limitations, and my enthusiasm begins to wane. Well, a great motivator that
I've learned is that when you have so much energy at the beginning of a
program, and want to go all out - HOLD BACK. Don't let yourself do
everything you want to do. Only let yourself do 50-75 percent of what you
want to do. And plan out a course of action where you slowly increase over
time. For example, if I want to go running, I might think I can run 3 miles
at first. But instead of letting myself do that, I start by only running a
mile. When I'm doing that mile, I'll be telling myself that I can do more!
But I don't let myself. After that workout, I'll be looking forward to the
next workout, when I'll let myself do 1.5 miles. I keep that energy reined
in, harness it, so that I can ride it even further. 

 

Leslie K

MN 323 Champlin

Leader