How to Maintain Motivation to Achieve Your Goals
How to Maintain Motivation to Achieve Your Goals
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Why do many people give up pursuing their goals in the middle?
In our real life, we see many people starting to pursue their goals with great excitement. Some people are very good starters. But when they face any stress, discomfort or resistance in their path, they drop off.
Some people are good starters and they are also good at ‘keeping it going’. But after a while, when they don’t see the desired results, they are tempted to drop it off. And mostly they will.
Why is it like this? Why do many people lose motivation for their goals?
As far as I can remember, I have always been a goal and growth oriented person. I frequently used to listen to my favorite motivational songs to stay motivated. For me, motivation used to be a ‘feeling’ before. The kind of motivation I used to get would not stay for a long time. I was confused about it. Why wasn’t I able to keep going on in my path constantly?
Here is what I found about having enduring motivation for most of the goals we set in our lives.
Purpose:
What is the purpose of your goal? If the purpose is not of higher value, the motivation will not stay longer.
Whereas if the purpose is of higher value; like helping your customers or making them feel happy, you will have more satisfaction and happiness. It will earn you more respect. This will strengthen your motivation.
Another example is, let’s say that a middle-aged gentleman wanted to exercise regularly and maintain a healthy good looking body. If his purpose is just to impress others, it may not stay longer. Whereas if the purpose is to have great health and play with his children or be an inspiration to his children, his motivation will be more enduring.
So, the purpose of your goal is very important and it should be of higher value. This is very important for staying motivated for a long time.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes – Thomas Edison
Clarity:
One of the primary reasons why people lose motivation for their goals is the lack of clarity. If we do not have clarity, we would take much longer time even to achieve a small goal. Most people take the initial step of starting with great enthusiasm, but after a while, they are unsure of where to take it from there. This is due to their lack of clarity and they waste a lot of time because of it.
A simple example is buying grocery items. If you know exactly what you want, you would complete your shopping very fast. If you are not sure, you would roam around or buy something else which you really don’t use.
So, be clear of exactly what is your goal. If you want to be wealthy, be clear about how much money you want to make and in what period of time. If you want to lose weight and become fit, be clear of how you would want to look like.
When we are clear of what we want, we have the tendency to break the job into steps that are required to achieve this goal. And then when we work on each of these steps and complete them, these battles won, will keep us more and more motivated for our final goal and give tremendous strength to our feeling of well-being.
Emotional stability:
I think this plays a major role in having us stay motivated. Perhaps this is the singe most important driving factor for success and happiness.
Where does our emotional stability come from? It is unconditional love. For many people, the source of unconditional love is one of their family members. For some, it is their best friend. For some, emotional stability comes from the teachings of a great and loving person. It can be some good books also. For many others, emotional stability comes from earning the respect of people whom they admire or in volunteering their services for the less fortunate people.
We become more stable emotionally by periodically giving dedicated time to the sources of our emotional stability. For me, the primary source of emotional stability is prayers, reading positive books, listening to inspiring music and spending good quality time with people who I love (family members and friends). I also get my emotional stability from encouraging other friends or when I get the chance to help less fortunate people. And in day-to-day life, I derive it by being kind to my colleagues, smiling from heart and listening more to others.
Make sure that the source of emotional stability is positive and that it helps you grow further. Emotional stability is not a ‘feeling’. It is related to values. Feelings will come and go. If we have strong values like compassion and kindness, nothing can stop us from moving forward.
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written by a guest , October 29, 2008

written by a guest , October 29, 2008
2.Clarity 3.Inspiration
I have an additional idea,the reason
4.Going for it hardly- Until and unless if you won't try for it hardly you are not eligible in the success list.You have to
make sure that your effort is that to hard for the success.
5.Should dream about the purpose(may be 1,2 points of your ideas)
If a person dreams about the results of the goal before it get to come then that makes him to go for it hardly.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true - Abdul kalam.
I strongly oppose to those who says that i really tried for that hardly but missed it,
bcoz if anybody tries hard(i.e he has to try atleast of it get achieved) they will get it in any one of the multiple attempts for sure.
Effort should be hard even if you fail to achieve, that really supports the failure.
Cheers.........
I agree with your points. The points I mentioned in this article are not meant to be comprehensive but these are core points that helps in getting ourselves motivated from the inside-out.
I like the quote you mentioned about Abdul Kalam. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Nuren

written by a guest , November 07, 2008
Love all your articles! keep it up, dude!!!

written by a guest , December 05, 2008
Keep posting............
Gopal
Thanks for your positive feedback...
I used to listen to hip-hop and fast beat motivational songs before...but I lost interest in them these days...
These days I listen more to instrumental songs(some of the artists are Yanni, Phil Keaggy, Kenny G, Enya).I also like musical themes of some movies..
Among Hindi songs, I like 'Jo jeetha wohi sikander' songs.
There is a good website pandora.com
We can just input one of our favorite songs in this site and it automatically plays similar songs like that one (it's like a radio). Cool. Is n't it?

written by a guest , December 10, 2008
Beaten copper becomes wires;
Depleted stone becomes statue;
So the more pain you get in life you become more valuable.

written by a guest , December 10, 2008
every painful story has a successful end
so accept pain and get ready for success
eventhough you don't get result when you put 100% result dont fell but trry again without waiting for results
-Lenina
I like this statement by you: 'So the more pain you get in life you become more valuable'
(However I think the pain should start decreasing after some point
To Lenina:
Your words are so profound (and true). Thanks for sharing those great words.

written by a guest , December 19, 2008
it is encouraging.
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