So how to motivate yourself in 2020? If you’ve come here, you may be feeling lost. 2019 didn’t go for you as well as you planned, so you’re hoping to launch the 2020 decade off with a fresh, a more productive start. I get that.

To be completely honest with you, 2019 wasn’t a great year for me either. In fact, it was a totally messy year that cost me a lot of nerves and weeks of procrastination, in a row sometimes. But it’s ok, it happens, it’s life.

So the question is then, what to do and how to motivate yourself in 2020 so that it wouldn’t be like 2019?

First of all, I’d like to point out that I am totally against New Year’s resolutions in any shape or form. Why? Because they never work! Me, including everyone that I know, have tried them so many times and not once they were a success.

If you are used to being a lazy slob, for example, then why should a new year change that? If you haven’t been able to stick to a proper diet your entire life, so why should a new year number (2020) change that?

And you know what, not only New Year’s resolutions never work, they are DANGEROUS!

Let’s take a fictional character as an example – a chronic procrastinator.

The person procrastinates with school, taking out the trash, calling a friend back, paying rent – everything. Now the guy decides that he will create a New Year’s resolution. He quickly jots down on a piece of paper.. “I will not procrastinate in 2020. (lol)”

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Then 2020 finally comes along. He manages to be active on the very first day, but then, because he already has formed a HABIT to procrastinate over such a long period of his life, he starts doing what he is best at – he procrastinates.

Now that he has procrastinated once, he tells himself, “oh darn, I messed up, no reason to bother with the resolution anymore, it won’t work, I am back to square one.”

In other words, in case you didn’t get it, our fictional character got disappointed in how ineffective the resolution was and immediately gave up.

Things like that happen all the time with New Year’s resolutions, which is why it is so important to not focus on them. Leave them behind, forget them.

Instead, if you really want to understand how to motivate yourself in 2020, try doing the following things:

1. Give yourself the WHY

Wondering how to motivate yourself in 2020? You do it just like you would do it on any normal day, but with a small exception. This time, you sit down, take out a piece of paper and figure out:

Why do you need to be motivated this year?

What have you missed last year by not being motivated enough?

What could you have accomplished last year if you were motivated?

What all can you accomplish this year by being motivated?

What does being motivated really mean to you, what is the purpose of it all?

These are some solid, although a bit repetitive, questions to ask yourself. You need to create a foundation, a purpose of why motivation is so damn important for you.

Because if you don’t ask yourself these questions, you’ll do what you have always done and get the results you’ve always gotten. Sad, but true.

2. Plan of action / setting goals

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Next, you need to create a plan of action. Creating or reminding yourself of the purpose only isn’t enough. You need to set some goals.

1. Set daily goals

2. Set monthly goals

3. Set a few big goals for the year

All of this should keep you on track. If you haven’t completed some of the weekly goals, you at least have a way to measure your success or the lack of it. “Hey, I didn’t do this on Friday, I’m off track, choppy chop”, is what you will say to yourself.

Also, don’t forget to have at least one day a week completely free of tasks. This will keep your motivation at a good level. Reward your progress, too. Go to the movies, get treats, clothing, whatever you like.

3. Affirmations and gratitude

Another thing to do if you don’t know how to motivate yourself in 2020 is to repeat affirmations and be grateful.

I know saying to yourself things along the lines of “I am motivated, I am perfectly fine being imperfect, but I am on the way to success (or something of that sort)” may sound like a bunch of baloney to some – and it is – but only if you do it while sitting on the couch every day while sipping on beer and watching soccer.

On the other hand, if you are motivated, if you are taking massive action and saying affirmations on a daily basis, they will only make you stronger and motivate you even further. But don’t take my word for it, just go online and read how so many successful people do it. I am sure they know what the deal of it all is.

Figure out some good self-affirmations for yourself and repeat them on a daily basis.

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Also, when you are going to sleep, don’t forget to be grateful. Replay the day in your mind and think of all the things that you have learned, what you have done, what lessons the day had taught you and how grateful you are for every single thing.

Gratefulness helps us understand that we are not wasting time. It helps us understand that we are in fact moving forward, one small (or big) step at a time. This increases motivation.

4. Books

Read some books on motivation if you are not doing so already. I can’t tell you how much they have helped me in my life.

If you want to be more motivated to start a business, read books on business. If you want to get slim, read books on how people lost weight. You pick.

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Generally, it’s quite sad that people don’t read as many books these days, but we should. Fortunately, there is an audiobook for pretty much any written book these days. Get those if you need to.

It goes without saying, by the way, but I will say it anyway – limit your time on social media, browsing mindlessly the internet, watching movies, playing games, etc!!!

Those are probably the biggest causes for why we lose so much time and are not motivated to do anything day after day. Set a time slot for how much you do all of those things a day and don’t exceed it no matter what.

5. Eat, sleep, exercise

The body affects the mind, and the mind affects your motivation directly.

If one of those is off, fix it, now!

Sleep enough, eat healthily, exercise at least 4 days a week.

Going to the gym does wonders for me. If I don’t for whatever reason exercise for more than two days straight, I start feeling down, sad and simply lost. I really do stop feeling motivated.

6. The 100 Day Challenge

You can also hire coaches to help you stay motivated (probably the most effective option), but most of us can’t afford one on a daily basis. As an alternative, try looking into the 100 Day Challenge, which is an online motivational program that is hosted yearly and is about to start now again in January.

It’s basically for anyone that wants to make a transformation in absolutely any field in as fast as 100 days. You’ll get daily motivational videos and other content to keep boosting your motivation, and you will also be in a community of like-minded people, people that want to move forward FAST.

I’ve taken the program myself and it has been tremendous. It’s author, Gary Ryan Blair, has been now hosting it for 10 years straight, so he really knows what he is doing. If you want to learn more about it, you can get his free pre-launch manifesto that explains what the program is and what it will do for you. I highly recommend it!

So, these were some of the things you can do if you don’t know how to motivate yourself in 2020. Feeling that energy flowing already? 🙂 Let me know what you think in the comment section below!

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