3 Tips to Master Your Motivation

Using mindfulness in action to achieve your goals

Motivation is a driving factor for actions, willingness, and goals. Motivation is derived from the word motive or a need that requires satisfaction. These needs, wants or desires may be acquired through the influence of culture, society, lifestyle, or may be generally innate. We can expand all of these through mindfulness.

An individual’s motivation may be inspired by outside forces (extrinsic motivation) or by themselves (intrinsic motivation). Motivation has been considered one of the most important reasons to move forward. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors. Mastering motivation to allow sustained and deliberate practice is central to high levels of achievement, e.g. in elite sport, medicine, or music. Motivation governs choices among alternative forms of voluntary activity.

Here are 3 tips for staying motivated

1. Begin at the beginning. Stop procrastinating and get started. Make your priorities things you enjoy, and insert small tasks that are less pleasurable in between these.

2. Negotiate with yourself committing to what you are willing to do. Good for overcoming procrastination and getting things done. You can make the deal small or large.

3. Combine big and small goals Set a large and specific goal. This will motivate you by giving you an “end-game” or a specific outcome. Then focus on small daily goals. A big goal has a big effect and can create a lot of motivation. Small success will consistently move you forward. When you have finished that small task you’ll feel more alert and ready to go do the next thing. You just to get started to get motivated.

The Takeaway

There are many theories on motivation. Researchers speculate about such things as mindfulness patterns, values, drives, or needs, that may not be observed directly. Through the basic research of such scientists as Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner, several basic mechanisms that…

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