How To Motivate Yourself When You're In A

 How To Motivate Yourself When You're In A

Slump

All of us go through slumps in our lives. If someone said that he has never

had any downs in his life, then we would know that he is lying. It is okay to

have downs in life. But what is not okay is if we stay in that slump and

worse, if we do not do anything about it.

I can almost hear you say that it is easier said than done. Yes. That is

correct with a small variation. It is easier done than said. Let us see how

that is possible.

The first and the foremost is our attitude. If we always keep a positive

attitude then half our job is done. The right attitude is the fuel and the

catalyst for self-motivation. We can always control and direct our attitude

towards positive things even when the circumstances around us cannot be

controlled by us.

Once we have a positive attitude, we can start doing things to boost our

confidence. Lack of confidence has the potential to make the slump even

worse. This comes when we don't appreciate what we have and always

think of what we want and why we cannot get it. This becomes a spiral and

finally we land in a pit.

Instead if we try concentrating on all the good things we have, goals that

we have achieved and the strengths that we have gained in the past, we

can boost our confidence to face the present.

Now that we have the right attitude and we have gained our confidence, the

next thing would be to have a set of achievable goals. It is very important to

set ourselves achievable goals that can be measured by tangible results.

We would not want to set a goal that says "I will become the president of

my country in the next 3 months" fully knowing well that it is not possible.

Once we have these goals, then automatically we will also define the

actions to execute, to get through with the goals.

Now we have a purpose to our lives. We know what we need to do in the

next 3 or 6 months. Our brain starts tuning itself to these goals and starts

planning a course of action. In short, it becomes active in a positive way.

We were in a slump a while ago, Then we regained our confidence and

now we have a goal and a set of actions to achieve that goal. That is quite

a progress. Is it not? We have gained momentum from nothing. Now we

need to sustain that momentum so that we can continue to be selfmotivated

and out of that slump forever.

That seems to be a hard task you would think. Not any more, after we see

what simple steps we can take to sustain the motivated state of mind that

we are in. We should make sure that we are surrounded by good people

who radiate positive energy.

We should always keep learning and stay positive, stop thinking and act

more, track our progress so that we will know when to put that extra effort

and when to relax and above all, help others, as that would give us

immense satisfaction which would in turn motivate us to stay motivated!