How to stay motivated

Sustainig motivation can be taught under the best circumstances.So how can you stay motivated when your "to- do list" runs to 4 pages, you just got another rejectionletter, your adult child announced his plans to move back home, the car and washing machine went on the fritz at the same time and tou ca't find time in the day to work on your own personal project? Everybody knows those pop-psych directives to put a photo of you at your most fit on the fridge or write yourself a check for 1 million dollars and tape it to your computer monitor or plaster your mirrors with affirmations like "I attract my perfect soul mate".

Motivation is not a magic.THERE IS NO LITTLE BLUE PILL FOR IT. But it's somethingyou can tap into by design than harness. Every inspirational author, speaker and life coach has his own tips, but over some decades of observing supersuccessful, high-achieving people, scientists came up with the list of 7 things that are fundamental to sistaing motivation, whether you're trying to finish a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle or climb Kilimanjaro.

7 Steps to Staying Motivated:

1 Set a goal and visualize it down to the most minute detail.

2 Make a list of the reasons you want to accomplish the goal.

3 Break the goal down into smaller pieces and set immediately targets and rewards.

4 Have a strategy but be prepared tochange the course.

5 Get the help you need.

6 Pre-determing how you will deal with flagging motivation.

7 Continually check in with your reasons for carrying on.

You have to be very internaly driven! But my favourite commentary comes from Dalai Lama- when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he answered, "Man."-"Why?"-"Because", sais his Holiness, "he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about his future that does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or in the future; he lives as if he is never to die, and then dies having never really lived."