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10 Tips for motivating yourself
Tips for motivating yourself seem more important than ever. Being stuck at home due to Covid has changed the landscape for many people socially and emotionally. Many people report finding it hard to stay motivated and it’s even harder when you have no one around to help you foster the positive energy that we sometimes need. When we have others around us, we can feed off that energy and that dynamic. When at home, we may have a different mindset and we also have more time to think which can sometimes be dangerous if you tend to overthink.
Here are 10 tips for motivating yourself when you are struggling to get going
1.Link the Goal To Values
Values can provide a deep motivation that helps to sustain the practice of new skills, or the pursuit of challenging goals, even when it’s boring, tedious or anxiety-provoking (as it so often is). Ask yourself: is this really important to you? What is it that matters enough, that you’d even think about doing something like this? What values would underlie this course of action? How would doing this make a positive difference in your life?
If we can link our new behavior to something personally meaningful, we’re far more likely to do it!