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Motivating Ourselves!
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Often the most difficult challenge to improving our life, to making a change, or to implementing a plan is finding out how to motivate ourselves to take the first step toward a goal and then to remain constantly motivated.

Have you given some thought to what motivates you? What gets you going when there are constant distractions? When your intellectual and emotional energy levels are low, how do you turn things around? Or when you are working on one project that is taking lots of your time, how do you stay focused and motivated to keep going until the project is complete? These are not questions with easy answers.

However, during the teenage years, it is important that you at least begin to explore the topic of motivation and come to some understanding about how you can motivate yourself. Although your preferences and inclinations about what motivates you might change as you grow older, you will be much better prepared for college and other goals you intend to pursue.

Start With Your Intentions

No matter what activity or goal you wish to pursue, there must be an effort to make an intention, to think clearly about what it is you are about to undertake and for what reason.

Working on your intentions right at the outset also serves the purpose of helping to develop a clear objective and, God willing, a concrete sense of what is needed to achieve the objective and how much time will be needed to do so. When your motivation suffers midway through the process of achieving a particular objective, it is highly likely that the intention itself was not clear at the outset and therefore distractions easily slipped in and the focus became unclear.

Do your best from now on to articulate your intention; if needs be, take a moment to write down your thoughts. Keep your intentions clear, and check back with yourself should your motivation level starts to decline.

Develop a Plan

Starting off on a project without having a clear sense of the resources or the estimated time needed to complete it is not recommended. Not knowing what books you will need to complete a report means you will have to stop and go look for a relevant book or source each time need arises. The risk that you will become distracted or even lose motivation is great because you will have started the project already but will feel discouraged if a particular book is not available.

In addition, you will find yourself diverting valuable energy unnecessarily to look for this or that resource, and even worse, fall victim to the tendency to "help" a friend with his or her problem. You should always be helpful to friends but not at the expense of losing valuable time working on your own project that has a specific deadline. If you get bogged down with too many distractions, whether self-inflicted or peer-imposed, then you are bound to feel less motivated to continue working on the initial project, whatever it was.

Develop a plan of action right at the outset, incorporating milestones and checkpoints so that you can pace your progress, as well as appropriate break times so that you do not suffer from burnout. It is never advisable to overwork oneself or to expect that one can remain consistently and constantly motivated over the same thing.


March 31, 2008 | 5:40 PM Comments  9 comments

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hayadin hayadin
March 31, 2008 | 11:53 PM
Intentions and Goal are important
This is a good reflection.
I myself always face such condition where i get fatigue or low blood in doing my task or Job. sometimes this condition make me near to hopeless.

But....., I always get my energy.
Just ask Yourself. Why do You do the jobs or task?
What is it benefit/purposes to Me?
When I found the answer, then i found my energy and i sustain to striving to pursue the ending of the jobs.

Now..., I go to school to tell student to literate them about planning.

Cheerssss,
H
shorty667 Angie
April 2, 2008 | 11:06 AM

Thankyou for your comment.
mdanishkhan Muhammad Danish
April 13, 2008 | 1:31 PM
Nice Madam
Very Nice :)
shorty667 Angie
April 13, 2008 | 3:20 PM

Thankyou Muhammad..
mdanishkhan Muhammad Danish
April 14, 2008 | 12:42 PM
Nice
I must say that you are like a candle. A candle provides light to other... You are doing the same thing... I wish you all the best for your future life... And I also wish you all the best for your next permanent life... If God give me a chance to meet you that would be the best and great day of my life... I am hoping for that day and I am also requesting God that Please give me that day....

Take Care my best friend....


Have a Nice Life....Aameen
shorty667 Angie
April 14, 2008 | 1:47 PM

That is so sweet of you Muhammad..I wish you all the best for your life too..
Thankyou!
Seanamo Sean Amos
May 12, 2008 | 6:55 AM

This is a great piece...worth reading...keep posting Angie
shorty667 Angie
May 12, 2008 | 12:52 PM

Thanks Sean :)
mdanishkhan Muhammad Danish
May 15, 2008 | 3:34 AM
Nice
Nice...
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