An Infinite Motivation Hack

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INFINITE MOTIVATION HACK

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Have you ever started a project or goal with enthusiasm, only to lose motivation a few days or weeks later?

Have you ever laid in bed one night and suddenly had a wave of motivation, you tell yourself that you’re going to wake up early the next day and go on a run or go to the gym, yet after four sessions, your routine falls apart and you stop going.

Sound familiar?

For you, this may be the case, you just end up with you being slightly annoyed at yourself and losing trust in your own word and therefore damaging your own self respect

But if you can’t trust yourself, why should anyone else trust you?

This vicious cycle of not following through with your own commitments damages your self image and your progress as a whole, so the question becomes, how can you still commit to your commitments without needing a wave of motivation to follow through?

You figure out how to get infinite amounts of it, here are 2 ways…

Lack of clarity

The first reason that people tend to lose motivation is due to a lack of clarity about what they are trying to achieve.

Why do you actually need motivation?

Breaking it down, someone would typically need motivation because they are trying to achieve something, and working towards that goal is not necessarily what they want to do.

Let’s say, for example, that you want to have your dream figure in the gym, and although you really do want the outcome and that’s what you’re focused on, the act of going to the gym every single day is not what you love or want to do.

Therefore, you need motivation to carry out that action to achieve that goal.

If you don’t exactly know what your angle is and you’re not 100% clear on what you’re working towards, then you’ll find it much harder.

Whereas if you are 100% clear on why you’re doing it and what you’re trying to achieve, then motivation will come much more naturally to you because you know your mission, your reason, and your purpose.

So you can’t rely on motivation to carry you towards your goal; it’s your actions that do that, and this term that’s called motivation helps you complete those actions.

Burnout

Another reason people tend to lose motivation is due to burnout.

The term ‘burnout’ refers to the process that happens when you overwork yourself.

The best way to envision it is to treat your brain like an operating system; if you don’t give it adequate rest when necessary, it will overwork itself and end up running slowly or not performing properly, and that is exactly what happens within your own head.

As a human, you need to listen to your own body.

There was no manual we were given to state how much we could work or do a certain thing before burning out, and that’s because everyone is different.

Many people try to fight burnout and work through it, but if you look at it from a long-term perspective, you can either experience burnout and then go through a period of time where you’re under-performing let’s say at 60%, or you can take consistent breaks when necessary to correctly regulate yourself - Which means you can always perform at 100%.

What would you rather perform at 60% for 10 hours or at 100% for 7?

Mathematically and logically, it makes more sense to do the latter.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

If you want to gain clarity around what it is that you’re trying to achieve, ask yourself what you want out of it, not what you think you want because other people have told you that you should want that.

Motivation will come 100x easier when you’re doing the thing for your own sake and not for someone else's.

If you want to combat burnout, split-test yourself and see where your limit is.

You’ll hear that some people work 16 hours a day every day, and for some people, that works, but that doesn’t mean it will also work for you, so find your sweet spot and play to it.

TAKEAWAYS:

There are loads of tips and tricks to ‘hack’ the state of motivation, but in order to have infinite amounts, you need to understand why you lack it in the first place. Here are two of those reasons:

• Lack of clarity around what it is that you’re trying to achieve.

• Overworking yourself and therefore burning out.

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