(1) Set Goals: Have Minimum Three Types of Goals: Short Term Goals, Long Term Goals and Life Goals.
Short Term Goals: These goals are tasks that you wish to accomplish in a short duration of time; from one day to about three months. They can last up to less than a year. E.g. Start to workout everyday for two months, raising your average for a class…
Long Term Goals: These goals are tasks that you wish to accomplish in a longer period of time; from one year to more than ten years. E.g. What you wish to study in university? What long language do you wish to learn? (Chinese/Japanese?) Being debt-free?
Life Goals: These goals are harder to achieve. These goals are similar to Before-I-Die goals. Some of these goals at the moment seem impossible to achieve. They seem so distant from where you stand. E.g. Making a million dollars, Traveling around the world, Learning 8+ languages…
(2) Developing a Habit: A Habit takes ~66 days to develop. By working on your goals every single day, without an excuse for 66 consecutive days, you will become disciplined. By creating a habit, you will no matter how bad your day is, no matter how tired/hungry/lazy you are, you will push yourself to work on your goals. Habit and Discipline will help you through the days where nothing seems to be going right. They will tell your brain that despite everything that has happen, I will still continue to work on my goals to accomplish them.
(3) Finding A Reason: Find yourself a reason to continue. During those days where life seems hard and everything is going wrong, find a reason to live through those days. Find a reason that will push you to continue to work despite a setback, a downfall, a failure or a disappointment. Think about the future. Think about why must you accomplish this? Most importantly, let your reason be strong enough to prevent you from giving up what you want most in the future for what you want at the current moment.
(4) Planning: Use a Notebook/Planner/Loose Leafs in order to plan out what you wish to accomplish every day. By noting down your process, it will encourage you to work. If you ever feel discourage and unable to motivate yourself, take a look at your progress. You may not be where you wish to be at the moment, but you are a lot further than where you have started from.
It is better to plan ahead of time then to procrastinate. Every moment that you procrastinate, you are telling yourself that my goals/dreams are not as important and that they can wait.
What motivates myself is the idea of others’ working hard. Just search on Tumblr #studyspo, #fitspo or Motivational Videos on Youtube and I believe that they will give you a stronger sense of motivation.
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