Hi Everybody,

I’m a newbie here and have a question that I’ve been asking myself for almost a year now. I’ve read many of the most popular motivation books and feel that I have tons of potential (actually, I’ve felt that for years even before reading the books!)

So why is it that I can be so motivated for days on end and then simply run out of motivation?

It seem that when I am motivated I can move mountains and achieve anything that comes to mind (I’m serious!), but why is it that I literally run out of fuel? I’m really getting frustrated with this emotional roller coaster! :hopeless:

Another thing that gets me is how do successful people do this? What I mean is how do they keep their motivation going?

This has been a question that has been on my mind for a long time b/c I can get so motivated for days and (I actually do accomplish things with rapid speed but then die out). It feels like this question will be one that I will be asking for a life time (which I don’t want it to be like Why is it that some people are more successful than others?).

Also how can I keep that fire in the belly going? :hmm:

Thank you all in advance!

I look forward to your comments (especially anything related on the subject of motivation).

globetravel

Hi Globetravel. There are a million and one tips we could probably give you on motivation but here's my attempt at a few that I think are really important.

First of all what are you motivated about? If it's not something you love then you'll be fighting a losing battle. Find what you love doing and pursue it. (http://poweressence.com/ebooks/finding.pdf) Make a business out of it. Create from it and help people. From this you should be able to develop clear goals - short term and long term.

Doing what you love, creating solutions to problems that have commercial value, helping people, making money, and having clear goals to follow will all help tremendously in keeping momentum.

One other tip is if you ever feel like you can't be bothered to do something, do it anyway. Don't even think, just do it. Once you get into it you should start to enjoy it and become motivated again!

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Another Power Essence Company tip to help increase and keep motivation is found in one of several free bonus reports included with our audio CD product. In that report, we discuss what Neo-Tech calls the mini-day schedule. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the assembly line method - where parts are put together at specific points along a moving path - the mini-day schedule is very similar.

The idea is to schedule your day in time slots and to do specific actions in each time slot. For example, if what you are trying to accomplish requires that you talk to various people on the telephone, then pick an hour or two each day, say from 1PM to 3PM for making business calls. When the time is up, move to the next action time slot, regardless if you need to make more calls. By doing this - moving to the next action in your schedule regardless if you are finished with the previous task - you will find that you will be more motivated to accomplish unfinished tasks the next day when that particular time slot arrives.

Part of losing motivation is that we tend to work on the same task for hours and hours a day and we easily get bored. By mixing up the day with relatively short task-periods and sticking to the allotted times, this will help to keep your focus and determination to finish as much as possible before that time slot ends and the next task begins. Be sure to include short periods of relaxation and/or entertainment, and of course, stretching and exercising as well.

Cemiess created a perfect example of a weeklong mini-day schedule for that free report I mentioned.

If possible, avoid things that will buzz-out your mind, like television. Watching most programs does not require much thought, so it's too easy for the mind to lapse into semi-trance states ( :snooze: ) for hours while precious time is slipping by as your projects sit idle.

Man i like the sound of that, motivationaly speaking im the equivalent of a yo-yo dieter (for verification check out how often i post, lots....none, lots....none, im the same in almost every forum i visit)

Incidentaly, i am nervous about posting this as the last few times I have have signalled the end of a thread! :bonk:

Incidentaly, i am nervous about posting this as the last few times I have have signalled the end of a thread! :bonk:

Don't take it personally Nick, because it isn't. I've never been to a forum where there wasn't at least one person (including myself at times) who was paranoid about being a "thread killer." Anyway, there's no one around here who knows you well enough to go out of their way to avoid dialogue with you. :)