How to get motivated, but why to get motivated? There’s an obvious reason to motivate yourself, to keep you climbing the stairway to success. It’s not just the calories that keep us going, I mean they are, but they just provide you with the energy to do what you’ve decided to do. And the prerequisite that supplies the energy to have a strong determination is your motivational level.



Hence to have high aspirations or turn your dreams and wishes into reality, you need to know how to get motivated. Let psychology help you out for this.



Just keep reading.

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Theories of Motivation:

Let’s begin with the theories which help in understanding the motivation itself. Let me present you two key theories which will help you understand how people get motivated.

Did you ever wonder why some are more motivated to achieve than others? Now we all analyze the chances of achievement and success before we decide to take a task. Some personality traits are bold and they take high risks because often you have higher rewards with tasks of higher risks.



On the other hand, you have people who are more inclined to avoid the risk factor and embrace a task only if the chances of failure are very feeble. So your motive is to achieve success and avoid failure, hence if your motivation to get involved is more than your fear for failure, you go for it, and otherwise, you don’t.



Another important factor is the ‘probability of success’ and the ‘incentive for success’. What are the chances of success and how much success could a particular task earn you? The theory explains why high achievers choose difficult tasks and the low achievers prefer the ones which are easier and pose lesser risks.

This theory puts light on how people relate certain attributes to the outcome of a task. For the intelligent beings we are, we tend to rationalize a situation we come across, we seek reasons and these attributes are the reasons. This theory categorizes these attributes in two ways based on:

Whether they are stable or unstable. Whether they are internal or external.

Stable are the ones that are permanent and unstable which are prone to variations hence temporary. And the internal factor is the one which is within our control and the external one being beyond our control.



Now, these attributions affect our self-confidence, our expectations of success, and failure and hence our motivational level.



These are the four attributes which get you motivated according to the theory:

Internal External Stable Ability Task difficulty Unstable Effort Luck

Now that you have a gross idea as to what motivation is, theoretically; let me tell you that it’s the fuel to success. And you don’t want yourself to get short of this. Let’s find some tips on how to get motivated.

1. Being greedy is how to get motivated:

Be greedy for success

Have you heard that nothing but soil can fill a man’s belly? Sounds convincing, isn’t it? Man when gets one valley of gold desires for another.



You can apply this very greed of yours, pardon me, for your desire for success. For the desire to achieve more, to go further and reach higher. You’ll only get this if you get to taste some success, it’s like the want more factor.

2. Upgrade your knowledge level to motivate yourself:

Knowledge is an up-gradation of personality

The more you know, the better you understand things. And this too in a sense makes you strive for more and boosts your self-confidence which will keep you motivated.

3. Reward yourself to get motivated

One of the common ways how to get motivated is by rewards. Now reward, isn’t the same for everyone, find what pleases you and give yourself only if it won’t harm you in some other way.



It’s the sense of fulfillment what we desire. It is something beyond being happy which can be achieved by achieving your goals.



Be very much aware of the situation that if you promise yourself leisure then you have to see to it that it does not lead to procrastination. Don’t punish yourself in the disguise of reward. For instance, taking long sabbaticals might weaken your spark and zeal to finish the task, and hence you may lose motivation.

What gets rewarded gets done Michael LeBoeuf

4. Have the vision to get you motivated

You need to know what you want to achieve and it’s only then that you can plan a road map to reach there. As far as you know that you’re on the right track and you are making progress you’ll be motivated.

5. Tasks and goals

Break down your goals into smaller tasks achievable in relatively smaller durations than the final goal. This keeps providing the opportunities for the celebration of success and you see the progress literally.



You can also keep assessing your progress and hence this also helps you focus in case of any possible deviations or distractions.

6. Let the sequence be variable

We get bored very easily, we sure are good at following routines but motivation is not a routine. You need to keep introducing variations, embrace changes and modifying old things. Try to have a fresh approach as far as it’s productive.



A fresh approach towards a situation promotes innovation and is a good way how to get motivated.

Change shouldn’t be for the sake of change for it would be obsolete if it is AM Qazi

7. Focus on a precise GOAL

Though we are very good at multitasking, we can manage to do only one thing at a time. You can’t do two things simultaneously because you can’t focus on two things simultaneously.



It’s more of a strength than a weakness though, we can give all our attention to that one task which is of utmost priority for us.



The researchers also state that though we can’t multitask but we are extremely good at shifting our focus from one task to another. “People can’t multitask very well, and when people say they can, they’re deluding themselves,” said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, “The brain is very good at deluding itself.”

8. Predict the pathway to the goal

We often fell trap for procrastination and unwillingly we become the last hour man. You don’t want to be in that position for your goals, I mean it’s not a party, it’s your goal, your ambition. And you can’t compromise on that.



So you must predict and anticipate the pathway towards it knowing what to achieve when and how does the timeline flow right from day one.



You’ll know exactly where you stand, and if at all there’s any need for modification in the plan.

9. Don’t keep it very private

Let the world know your ambitions

It’s difficult not to do something when you publicly express your commitment towards it. You love your ego and self-respect as you must for the positive things. So don’t keep your goals to yourself.



Let the fear of failure not being to yourself keep you motivated. For good.



Moreover you’ll also need the support from thos who care for you and love you. It’s not easy to achieve things alone, we’re social being, so accept the support, it will make a huge difference.



Also bare in mind that, being Motivated is the beginning of the task, the key is persistence. And motivation is like fuel which depletes with time but luckily retains with effort. So you have to keep watching for it and do what it takes to stay motivated.



Here are some more tips on how to be motivated:

Have a positive thought

Keep motivating others to stay motivated yourself

See the positive side and be optimistic

Never self-pity

Share your goals

Have a good supporting company

Go out and communicate, also work on your communication skills.