RealTalkAJ

I’ll be sharing 7 ways to motivate yourself to work hard.

How can I motivate myself to work hard?

• Convince yourself you want to do it
• Take control
• Surround yourself with other people
• Break up your tasks into smaller ones
• Stay focused
• Remember your “why.”
• Stay positive

Convince yourself you want to do it

Motivation can be hard to come by.

But what if you absolutely need to get something done?

Being tired and stressed makes our brains want to save mental energy.

And the response most of the time is making decisions quickly.

There’s a daily struggle that we the people face.

And that of course is not being good enough.

The trick that people go through which kills the habit of taking action is thinking that things need to be handled immediately.

Most of the time the fear carrot I like to call it that gets dangled is finances.

We’ll get assured in some way that our money will be messed up or we won’t earn any if it’s not done.

What I think needs to be done in order be better at discernment when it comes to doing things and beat procrastination is a strategy.

I’ve mentioned this before on actually a distant concept.

It’s actually on believing in your song as an artist.

But one of my strongest methods to convince something is worth your time is constant validation.

The more you feed your mind reasons something should be done you will find motivation to do it.

If you need actionable steps then here’s 3 solid habits to practice:

• Ask yourself why
• Put it off and monitor how you feel with the task not being done as time goes on
• Visualize yourself doing it

Take control of life

Taking control of your life’s dependent on reflecting on your goals and feelings by paying attention to your thoughts.

Most people want the same things:

• good health
• experience well-being
• be satisfied with work
• accept themselves
• be respected
• supportive relationships

You’ll be on your way to doing these things by removing irrelevant items from your to-do list that don’t align with your goals.

You can take control of your life by making it a goal with sub-goals that support the cause.

Simplify the process.

Create awareness that brings it to your attention.

Your values come in to play eventually because it’s what keeps you motivated.

That’s what defines your vision.

What you believe matters.

Work on identifying your internal and external motivations.

This helps you believe you can do whatever and overcome your limiting beliefs.

And there’s physical things you can do as well to help.

Slow your thinking down.

Try taking slow and deep breaths.

Maybe even taking yourself to a quiet place could help.

All of these techniques work on your conscious and help let you give up the tension building up.

There’s cleanses you could apply that’ll help too.

Delete social media from your phone if needed.

Something as simple as cleaning your room could even help.

Break your goals down into weekly and manageable tasks that you know you’ll be able to do.

The goal is to prioritize self-care.

Surround yourself with like minded people

Surrounding yourself with like minded people is awesome.

You have to actively seek them out though.

Like-minded people put you with the dreamers and doers.

These people inspire and motivate you.

Maybe the best benefit is being around people that see greatness in the future.

It shares a common vision.

With like-minded people you feel comfortable in sharing your dreams without judgement.

I attract like-minded people from the content I make personally but if you think it’s out of your grasp then that’s a limiting belief.

I’ll admit that lately I’ve been around people that challenge my beliefs but I’ll choose like-minded people over them any day.

Breaking up tasks into smaller ones

Breaking up tasks into smaller ones is sub-goals in a nutshell.

There’s a few steps needed to take in order to make it happen.

First is defining milestones and that happens with identifying your tasks.

You need to put those tasks in the right order to be effective.

After you do that you’ll want to add the tasks to your calendar.

Look at the bigger picture.

It makes things seem more doable.

It reduces our likelihood to procrastinate and put off objectives.

These smaller tasks you create should be quick to complete.

Make them ones that take 20-30 minutes or less at best to do.

Regardless of size.

That way you’ll be able to make progress in a short amount of time.

Staying focused to be motivated

Staying focused is a tough feat that separates yourself from most that only claim they’re motivated to achieve a goal.

It doesn’t matter if your goals are small or large.

If you continue to stay tuned in with these messages you’ll learn how to stay focused and motivated.

I personally stay focused with the perfect balance of pressure and pain.

Here’s a few ways that I incorporated action to staying focused when I was in sports:

• Dream building
• Affirmation statements
• Find inspiration through others
• Take care of my body physically

One of the toughest areas to start focused for a majority of people is in work.

But it can be done.

If you need help in that area it’ll serve you well to create schedules and avoid multitasking.

And if you’re working from home then self discipline’s gonna be even more crucial.

That’s where you’ll have to be phenomenal with time management and prioritization.

There’s quotas you’ll have to meet most likely and some tasks will be minuscule in comparison to others.

Because of that it’ll serve you best to understand what’s most important.

There’s courses you can look into for pushing through the illusion of motivation when it comes to working as an employee.

I highly recommend if you choose to continue down that path.

But to sum up the steps you should take for staying focused:

• Identify what brings you pain and pleasure
• Dream build and affirm what you’re doing through positive statements about your goal
• Be tuned in with others that bring inspiration
• Take care of your body
• Be self disciplined
• Complete goals through time management and prioritization

Getting a grasp on your Why

Having a grasp on why is important because it’s the reference point for all your decisions and actions.

We all want to feel that with each decision we make we’re getting closer to something.

Getting a grasp on things means the beginning of understanding.

Your why is the driving force that keeps you going and helps you stay motivated when things get tough.

Part of it’s having a compelling goal.

This is different from getting grip.

I feel getting a grip is having an expectation of better understanding than simply grasping a concept.

I think I started to get a grasp on my own Why as I started discovering my personal values.

Not the ones I was told to have.

The ones I earned because I started to develop my own opinions on things I started desiring.

They’re the things that drive you every single day.

Part of taking control of this Why is getting a good grasp on your feelings and emotions.

I do so by performing resets internally through activities that calm myself and sometimes get me hype.

This just reminds me that I’m alive and allows me to continue feeling new ways that serve me best.

Being positive is motivation

Being positive has tremendous benefits for work with improved health functioning as one of the mains.

It even motivates others around you to keep your positivity.

Do what you can to surround yourself around positivity as if your work depends on it because it does.

It helps with stress management and I believe it provides the enthusiasm needed to stay consistent.

I’ve mentioned several times how I use a balance of positive and negative motivators to keep working.

But positivity should be the feeling most of the time.

If you see your mind as a magnet then it makes the concept much simpler.

If you’re positive you’ll constantly attract the things you actually want in life.

Not to mention it also makes you a happier person overall.

Positive motivation is pursuing a outcome filled with rewards as opposed to the opposite where you’re running away from a result.