Six Daily Motivation Tips

By Steve Gillman

How do you achieve a more consistent level of daily motivation?
Use the following powerful techniques, beginning at the start of
your day.

1. Start The Day Motivated

Have a morning motivation routine. Experiment a bit and see
what gets you going. If it has to be coffee, then so be it,
although there are probably healthier options. One thing that
probably doesn't work is hitting the snooze button on the alarm
clock. That just trains your brain and body to pay less
attention to the alarm. Try cold showers, energizing music,
exercise and anything else that might work for you. Once you
find a few things that help you get you ready for the day, work
them into a regular routine.

2. Have Worthy Goals

If you have nothing to get excited about, find something. Quit
your job, move to another town, make a goal that requires work
you will enjoy. You have nothing to lose in your life if there
is nothing in it that you want to be doing, so start making
changes. Start exploring the possibilities to see which ones
might inspire you and make you want to get going each day. Then
remind yourself of these important or inspirational goals every
morning.

3. Use Fear

We are all motivated by both fear and the promise of rewards,
but some of us respond better to fear. You can use this to get
yourself moving. In fact, you already do if you sometimes lay
there in the morning until the thoughts of what will happen if
you don't get up make you finally jump out of bed. Just make it
more conscious and planned. Imagine the bad things that will
happen if you don't do what needs to be done. This is a very
basic psychological technique. You link pain with not acting, so
you feel a strong urge to get busy working on your goals.

4. Have Daily Motivation Talks

Almost everyone gets excited and experiences a rise in energy
levels when talking about something that is truly important and
inspiring to them. This could be cars, self improvement,
politics, money or just about anything. Find the "hot" topics
that get you excited and start a conversation about them as
necessary. This works best if the person you are talking to
shares your enthusiasm, but try it with anyone who will listen.
Afterwards you should be able to carry that energized and
motivated state over to the work at hand.

5. Do Something

Though it may seem ironic, I started writing this article
without feeling too motivated (I write more than a hundred
articles a year). But I knew that if I just wrote a sentence or
two, there would be some momentum created. Sure enough, I am
writing easily now, and with some enthusiasm. The point: take
any small step. Do anything to start the project or task in
front of you - any action towards a goal - and you will feel
some degree of motivation building within you.

6. Go Beyond Daily Motivation Tricks

Learn how your brain and body works and you can easily apply
that knowledge through "tricks" like those here. However, there
is also a natural motivation which arises in us when we are
living in a balanced and healthy way. You may be skeptical of
the idea at first, but when you see clearly enough what needs to
be done, the energy is there. Work on that self awareness and
honest inquiry into ones nature, and more and more you'll be
able to tap into that natural state of seeing the truth and
acting. Then you won't need daily motivation "tricks" or tips.

About the Author: Copyright Steve Gillman. For more Self
Motivation Tips, and to learn more powerful principles that go
much further, visit:
http://www.selfimprovementnow.com/self-motivation-tips.html

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