How to Keep Motivated When You Feel Like Giving Up

On our blissful road of self-improvement, keeping motivation up is essential to achieve our goals. Without it, you will notice it will be really difficult to reach the next levels in our lives. It is easy to feel motivated when you have just set goals for yourself and you are just starting fresh, but with time motivation usually wears off. Like when you set yourself a new exercise and diet routine but after the excitement of the first few weeks, you are craving a pizza and a beer? How, then, to keep motivated when you feel like giving up?

Self-development requires a good dose of motivation. This is because the improvement process involves creating new routines our mind is not used to and will fight against. In order to keep progressing, you will need to learn how to stay motivated. Why else do you need motivation?

It Keeps you Positive

Motivation helps you keep a positive mindset. You are inspired and excited about improving your life. You are eager to implement the changes that are needed to take you to the next level. All is well!

When you are motivated, you are present at the moment. There is no room to be pessimistic. When your motivation is down, you could find all sorts of reasons to go back to your old ways and give up on your goals, and never get back on track.

It Keeps Your Eyes on the Target

It is easy to lose focus on what your goal is when you start facing challenges. Motivation, at a time like this, is key. It helps you keep your eye on the target and remember why you are on this journey.

It Gives You Energy

When you are motivated, you can work endlessly toward your goals and rarely feel tired. Your motivation comes from the passion you feel for what you are working towards. Find what you are passionate about and you will never run out of reasons to be motivated.

It Helps You Be Creative

Motivation helps you have more creative solutions when you need them. You will have more flexibility and ideas to achieve your goals. Without motivation, these are more difficult to reach leaving you with a sense of helplessness.

While you are working on improving yourself, though, it is important to make use of creative ideas and new ways of thinking. This is more easily achieved when you are working with motivation. Being more motivated, in other words, means you’re more likely to succeed.

So How Can You Keep Motivated?

If you struggle to keep yourself motivated, you’re not alone!

Motivation comes easy in the beginning, right after you set your goals, but it isn’t easy to keep motivation levels up. See 5 tips below to help keep your motivation always up.

1) Commit to it Publicly

When you keep your goals to yourself, it is easier to give up on them. If you share them with other people, though, it will help keep you motivated longer. Who wants to admit publicly they are giving up?

Besides, when shared with the right people, they become your cheerleaders, and you will not want to let them down. All more reason to keep you motivated and carrying on!

So choose the right people and share your goals with them. They will make sure it is not that easy for you to give up and keep your motivation levels up!

Another option is to find someone with similar goals and meet regularly as an accountability partner. It may not sound like much, but many people do it to keep up with their tasks and it can be immensely helpful to not lose track!

2) Remember Your Why

Right after you set your goals and started working towards them, you probably felt you had an endless amount of motivation. That was due to the new infused energy caused by setting on this new course. However, as time passes, it is natural to get sidetracked and lose this initial energy.

That’s when it is important to remember the initial reason why you decided to start these changes. Why did you first set this goal? Is it to live a healthier life so you can be around your family longer? Maybe you could put a picture of you and your family on the refrigerator door. Is it to make more money so you can be free to have more time for traveling? Maybe put that Eiffel Tower souvenir beside your laptop. Do you want to remind yourself that you can achieve anything you set your mind to? Maybe get this inspiring mug from our store.

3) Set Yourself Clear and Small Goals

A common mistake people make is to set goals that are too broad. You may have a realistic goal, but something that is difficult for the mind to translate into actionable steps, such as: I want to be rich, or I want to be happy. These are great goals, but how rich, and happy how? That will result in not seeing progress and that is a motivation killer.

The best thing to do is to set yourself an overarching goal that is specific, and then break it down into smaller goals. Then, you will be able to cross those out as you accomplish them. Each accomplished goal will boost your self-confidence and give you motivation to keep onto the next one. There is no better feeling than crossing off small tasks from your list.

4) Celebrate Your Wins

While you set those smaller goals, it is important to celebrate as you achieve them.

It is easy to get into auto mode and just move on to the next thing. However, by doing that you are not recognizing or celebrating your achievements.

Stopping and celebrating each of your small wins, even if it’s a small break for something fun or relaxing really helps to keep your motivation levels up.

5) Don’t Allow Past Failures to Hold You Back

It is important to learn from our failures, but we shouldn’t let our past hold us back. When you keep dwelling about past mistakes and failures, your motivation will fade.

You should absolutely use your past as motivation to get better and do better, but don’t allow it to hold you back. Even if something hasn’t worked out before, you can fix what was wrong and try again.

Remember today you are a better version of your past self. Today is a new day and you can build your future according to what you do and who you are in the now.

6) Don’t Expect to be Motivated

You will not get motivation just by waiting for it to appear. It will be there for you in your life at certain moments when you naturally feel motivated to make a change, but ultimately you will need to proactively keep up with it.

Identify what motivates you and implement it. Make notes so you know what to do next time you need it. A lot of this comes down to discipline. So, be firm and implement these steps when you feel your motivation starting to fade.

7) Take Action

Procrastinating is one of the biggest reasons people lose motivation. It is easy to get distracted from our goals and fall back to our old routines. Life happens and gets in the way.

When this happens, it is important to identify you are in this situation. When you notice it, hopefully before it is too late, get back on track. Cross one small item off the list and celebrate it. Go through the list of ideas above and bring your motivation up to speed. You will be happy you did.

These are 7 tips you can start implementing to ensure you keep motivated when you feel like giving up. With perseverance you will overcome the challenges and keep your motivation where you need it!