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 causes of 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 create 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 should 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 an author, feel the achieved result, connect with it, and not watch from the sidelines 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 if you really need 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 needs to be satisfied?
How to regain motivation – make sure that the need still needs to be satisfied through achieving 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 having a specific result and motivation. When only the final result is 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 haven't done this before, it's scary, and it's 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 in such a way 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 first of all with the nearest stage in the plan, and not with the final goal. Yes, periodically return to the vision of the big final goal, because it is what 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, achieved intermediate results 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 don't have (and this is good). Also, allow yourself to praise yourself for the achieved intermediate results, 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 make you angry, disappointed, scared. You didn't plan them and don't know how to be.
How to regain motivation – remember your goal, formulated according to all the rules. See yourself again, 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 so-called limiting beliefs.
How to regain motivation: the best thing I can advise in this case is working with a professional coach. Not just anyone who calls themselves that. Unfortunately, there are many of them now. But with a professional. The work of professional coaches is precisely to accompany people in their experience of achieving their desired goal. And coaches are very good at working with limiting beliefs and fears.
I'll say it directly: I wrote the entire "Goal Setting Technology" series exclusively from my 12 years of experience in coaching and knowledge of modern neuroscience)))
Olga Yudina,
founder of the "Territory of Innovation" academy, Candidate of Philological Sciences,
coach with international qualification level PCC ICF, author
of internationally accredited professional coach training programs