In the link to the last article, you will go to the previous ones
In this article, I promised to deal with the loss of motivation along the way.
I will talk about the most common reasons for the loss of motivation and ways to restore it.
For convenience, we will number what I will talk about.
1. Reason - unclear goal setting
The brain needs a clear picture to have motivation. Not a dream, not an idea about a goal.
How to regain motivation – check the goal for clarity and specificity of wording.
Remember, in the first article of our series, we talked about the fact that the goal needs to be set as specifically as possible? Directly see the criteria/markers of the achieved result. Answer the question "How will I know that there is a result?" Feel like the author, feel the achieved result, connect with it, and not watch from the side a movie about yourself, achieving the result.
2. Reason – the goal loses relevance
It happens that life circumstances make their own adjustments to your plans. And the set goal ceases to be necessary. But you have not yet realized this, you are trying to move by inertia, but there is no fuel for movement. Fuel for movement is motivation. From the previous article, you remember that motivation arises on the basis of need.
Ask yourself, is it so necessary for you to satisfy the need that was the basis of the goal? Maybe it has already been satisfied in some other way? Maybe there is a more acute need that requires satisfaction?
How to regain motivation – make sure that the need still needs to be satisfied through the achievement of the result. Or make sure that a new, more acute need has arisen, which needs to be put at the basis of a new goal. And go to a new goal with fresh motivation.
3. Reason - lack of a step-by-step plan
In the first and second articles, we said that if the goal is set correctly, a step-by-step plan is easily born, as a consequence of the presence of a specific result and motivation. When there is only the final result in front of your eyes, it is large and delayed in time. Therefore, it often seems unattainable, and people turn on protective mechanisms, fear of going to such an unprecedented result. You have not done this before, it is scary, and it is not clear how to achieve such a result.
How to regain motivation – check for the so-called roadmap, in other words, a step-by-step plan for moving towards the goal. It should be developed so that you see how many stages you will have, how many intermediate results, what these intermediate results look like, when they will be achieved, how you will understand that they are already in your experience.
You should check your progress primarily with the nearest stage in the plan, and not with the ultimate goal. Yes, periodically return to the vision of the big ultimate goal, because it is she who inspires. But, in order to remove the fear that prevents you from moving forward, keep the course on the nearest intermediate result.
4. Reason - lack of consolidation of positive experience
Many of us lack the useful habit of comprehending our movement towards the goal, noting the evolution, the intermediate results achieved, and consolidating positive experience. And this is extremely necessary to fuel motivation.
How to regain motivation – understanding and fixing what you have already achieved at the moment, what you have learned by this point, what you have (and this was not before), what you do not have (and this is good). Also, allow yourself to praise yourself for the intermediate results achieved, even celebrate them in some appropriate way. This is what you will rely on in your further movement.
5. Reason – external obstacles.
It happens that unforeseen circumstances arise on your way that stop you. Yes, they can anger, disappoint, scare. You did not plan them and do not know how to be.
How to regain motivation – remember your goal, formulated according to all the rules. Once again, see yourself achieving the result, feel it, feel it. And look at the current obstacle. What is stronger – the obstacle or your goal? What do you want: to stop or go further? As F. Nietzsche said, "he who knows why ... will overcome almost any how".
6. Reason - internal barriers.
Here we are talking about the so-called limiting beliefs.
How to regain motivation: the best thing I can advise in this case is to work with a professional coach. Not just anyone who calls himself that. Unfortunately, there are many of them now. But with a professional. The work of professional coaches is just to accompany people in their experience of achieving the desired goal. And coaches are very good at working with limiting beliefs and fears.
I will say directly: I wrote the entire series "Technology of Goal Setting" exclusively from my 12 years of experience in coaching and knowledge of modern neuroscience)))
Olga Yudina,
founder of the academy "Territory of Innovation", Candidate of Philological Sciences,
coach with international qualification level PCC ICF, author
international accredited programs for training professional coaches