AMY HANSEN

There are some days when you’re feeling a lack of motivation.  You know you should be taking action towards your goals but you’re just not feeling motivated to do so.  Don’t give up.  Everyone has an ebb and flow of motivation.  Sometimes you feel discouraged because the path to achieving your goals gets difficult.  Other times you’ve just lost interest, passion or excitement.  The key is to get back to your motivation as quickly as possible.  Here are six ways to help you get your motivation back.

It’s Normal

First, recognize that it’s normal to lose your motivation.  It happens to everyone.  Don’t beat yourself up or get down on yourself if you’re feeling a lack of motivation.  Sometimes you’ll be super excited and motivated and other times you won’t want to do the work because it feels like a chore.  That doesn’t mean that you’re on the wrong track...

Think about what will happen if you don’t achieve your goal.  Yikes!  You might get really down on yourself.  Perhaps your inner critic will rise up saying mean things that you were stupid for going for this goal and ask you why did you ever think that you could achieve such a goal in the first place?  This negativity will not only prevent you from going for this goal, but it can also stop you from going after any goal in the future.  You can’t let that happen.  Learn how to stay focused on your goal so that you can finally achieve it!

Goal Clarity

Whenever you’re setting a goal for yourself, you need focus, clarity, and specificity.  You need to be clear on what exactly the goal is that you want to achieve.  Focus on one specific goal that you’ve set for yourself.  If you have too many goals or shinny objects, you’ll get easily distracted.  You need clarity on what goal you’re aiming...

Setting goals in your life is more than just the feeling of accomplishment that comes with achieving what you set out to do.  It’s about creating a life that fulfills you, challenges you, excites you, and creates some form of balance.  But, usually when you work towards one goal, another area of your life ends up falling out of balance.  Learn how to set the right goal that helps you to find more balance in your life.

Reassess

A balanced life looks different for everyone.  It’s up to you to decide what that looks and feels like for you.  Take time to reassess where you are in your life.  Give a score to each area of your life.  This includes finances, relationships, hobbies, career, physical health, surrounding environment, and mental wellbeing.  Think about which of these areas feels off and needs improvement.  Then, refocus your energy to set a goal to improve that area of your life.

Set A Goal

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You’ve just achieved a big goal.  Now what?  You’ve dedicated so much time and effort working towards achieving your goal.  It’s consumed so much of your time.  After that massive amount of work, you were able to achieve something that you’ve dreamt of for so long.  But, now you may be feeling lost and stuck, not knowing what’s next for you.  That in between stage can be a bit scary.  You may be thinking that you just want to play it safe rather than step outside your comfort zone and take a risk to achieve another goal.  However, as an achiever, you don’t want to just coast through the rest of your life.  You want to continue learning and growing.  Here are four things you can do when you’re in between goals.

Educate Yourself

Start by reading books on topics that peak your curiosity.  Educate yourself further by taking an online course or decide to go back to school.  Get a...

Having a strategy to achieve your goals is important.  Without a plan, you won’t know what to do in order to achieve your goals.  That’s why it’s important to find the best strategy that works for you.

Strategy Example

For example, if you want to lose weight, your strategy would be to exercise and eat healthy.  You might choose a good strategy to exercise and cook at home three days a week.  Your better strategy would be to exercise and cook at home five days a week.  Your extreme perfect strategy is to exercise and cook at home seven days a week.  Your good strategy is the bare minimum you would consider to be making progress towards achieving your good goal.  Your better strategy says you’re being more diligent and taking the right steps to achieve your better goal.  Your perfect strategy leaves no margin for error.  It says that you’ve knocked it out of the park to go above and beyond in order to...

You may have heard of the good, better, best goal setting strategy where you set three different goals to achieve.  For example, if you want to lose weight by the end of the month.  Your good goal is five pounds, your better goal is seven pounds, and your best goal is to lose ten pounds by the end of the month.  Your goal is to lose weight but there is scale in which you can achieve that goal.  But, is this really the best goal setting strategy?

Three Winning Goals

If you achieved your good goal, you’d be happy with that result.  But, you’d feel even better if you achieved your better goal and over the moon excited if you achieved your best goal.  The idea is that you’d put forth the same amount of time and effort to achieve the goal, but you wouldn’t be upset if you just hit your good goal instead of your best goal.  Each goal is a winner to you.

Bigger Goals

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When you look around and see other people achieving success quickly, you think that you should too.  Yet, achieving your goals isn’t an overnight success.  In fact, the people who you think quickly achieved success actually took a long time in the making.  You’re just seeing the highlight reel.  Here is how to stop comparing your success to others.

Mindset

You might be thinking that success happens for others but not for you.  Don’t buy into that belief.  It only keeps you stuck in a fixed mindset without the possibility of believing that there is more for you and your life.  Success is more than possible for you.  It can happen.  You just have to keep working towards achieving your goals and never give up.

Not Failing

Don’t think that you’re a failure just because you haven’t achieved your goal as quickly as someone else.  It may take you longer to achieve your goal.  But,...

The journey to achieving your goal can be long and difficult.  There are many obstacles that will come your way.  However, those obstacles are meant to test your strength, will power, and perseverance for how badly you want to achieve your goal.  Here are six things you can do to help you to reach the finish line and get to where you’re going.

Baggage

Imagine you’re going on a car ride to achieve your goal.  You’re going to need to pack a few things to take on your trip.  Leave behind all your fears, worries, and doubts.  Those things can weigh down your car and get pretty heavy.  Lighten your load and let go of some of things you’ve been carrying around.  You don’t need these on the journey.  In fact, they will only hinder you and slow you down from reaching your goal.  Instead, only bring your essentials.  Such as, water, snacks, and a positive outlook with the determination that you will...

The negative inner critic in your mind starts getting loud when you’re trying to step outside your comfort zone.  It just wants to keep you safe.  But, that limits what you’re able to do.  It ultimately prevents you from achieving your goals and dreams in life.  Stop letting that negative voice paralyze you.  Here is how to overcome your negative inner critic.

Take Responsibility

First, acknowledge that the inner critic is you.  It’s not someone else.  It’s not an alter ego or a bad part of you.  It’s simply you.  When you recognize that this voice is truly yours, you have the power to change it.  The voice may have been formed by things that you’ve heard others say.  But, you have repeatedly told yourself these things which have made them your own.  By taking ownership of this inner critic, you are admitting that you’re 100% responsible for either believing or not believing...

With success comes failure.  Usually you have to fail a bunch of times before you reach success.  It takes a lot of learning, tweaking, and adjusting to get there.  But, when you do, you sure are excited and proud of yourself.  Failure is inevitable when you’re going after something you really want in life.  The key is to persevere through the failure in order to successfully achieve your goals.  That’s why you must change your perspective on failure so that you don’t give up on your goals and dreams in life.

Avoiding Failure

When you’re working to achieve your goals there are a lot of unknowns.  You don’t have all the answers or the perfect direct path mapped out.  So, you continue researching and stalling with other reasons as to why you’re not quite ready to take action yet.  When the truth is, you’re just afraid to experience failure.  However, this waiting is what keeps you stuck...