How to motivate yourself: methods and techniques
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:28 am
These tips will help you charge your battery
Motivation is what motivates a person to act, controls his activity, directs and organizes his activities. Most often we say that we lack motivation. How to learn to motivate yourself?
The main thing you need to keep a close eye on is whether you have enough energy to do the job, whether your "battery" is charged. What provides us with the required level of charge?
Sleep – sufficient and in accordance with circadian armenia phone number lead rhythms, i.e. at night. Sitting at the computer until 4am and then sleeping until noon is not the healthiest and most energizing habit, although you technically sleep 8 hours.
Sufficient food and water, a balanced diet. This is our fuel in the most direct, physical sense of the word.
Sufficient physical activity. Sedentary life is not provided for by our evolutionary development, if we do not move, the brain receives a signal that “something is going wrong” and begins to save, to under-deliver energy.
During the day, it is useful to monitor whether we are spending our energy wisely? Are we trying to get rid of energy “devourers” – procrastination, unfounded self-criticism, unhealthy perfectionism? Do we have time to rest and recharge? Do we notice the good that is happening around us and what we do ourselves? Do we praise and encourage ourselves enough?
Let's assume that everything is fine with our "battery" and we want to start performing the task.
It is quite natural to feel fear, anxiety, and confusion about where to start if it is a global or completely new task. We get down to business much easier and feel more confident if we have a specific, time-limited task that is proportionate to our strengths, if we are ready for some obstacles and delays, but know that a reward awaits us in the end. Therefore, let's try to outsmart our brain and make it understand that the new global task is not so big and difficult to accomplish. How to do this?
Formulate your goal correctly. It should correspond to your main, strategic life goals and values. If you set a task for yourself based on the principle "if everyone else runs, I'll run too", stop and think, is this your goal? If not, then why go for it and look for motivation for it? If this is your goal, then the wording should contain a perfective verb (answer the question "what to do?"): establish healthy nutrition and healthy sleep, find a job, learn English.
Motivation is what motivates a person to act, controls his activity, directs and organizes his activities. Most often we say that we lack motivation. How to learn to motivate yourself?
The main thing you need to keep a close eye on is whether you have enough energy to do the job, whether your "battery" is charged. What provides us with the required level of charge?
Sleep – sufficient and in accordance with circadian armenia phone number lead rhythms, i.e. at night. Sitting at the computer until 4am and then sleeping until noon is not the healthiest and most energizing habit, although you technically sleep 8 hours.
Sufficient food and water, a balanced diet. This is our fuel in the most direct, physical sense of the word.
Sufficient physical activity. Sedentary life is not provided for by our evolutionary development, if we do not move, the brain receives a signal that “something is going wrong” and begins to save, to under-deliver energy.
During the day, it is useful to monitor whether we are spending our energy wisely? Are we trying to get rid of energy “devourers” – procrastination, unfounded self-criticism, unhealthy perfectionism? Do we have time to rest and recharge? Do we notice the good that is happening around us and what we do ourselves? Do we praise and encourage ourselves enough?
Let's assume that everything is fine with our "battery" and we want to start performing the task.
It is quite natural to feel fear, anxiety, and confusion about where to start if it is a global or completely new task. We get down to business much easier and feel more confident if we have a specific, time-limited task that is proportionate to our strengths, if we are ready for some obstacles and delays, but know that a reward awaits us in the end. Therefore, let's try to outsmart our brain and make it understand that the new global task is not so big and difficult to accomplish. How to do this?
Formulate your goal correctly. It should correspond to your main, strategic life goals and values. If you set a task for yourself based on the principle "if everyone else runs, I'll run too", stop and think, is this your goal? If not, then why go for it and look for motivation for it? If this is your goal, then the wording should contain a perfective verb (answer the question "what to do?"): establish healthy nutrition and healthy sleep, find a job, learn English.