Self-motivation

Self-motivation is a skill that has a great impact on our personal development, it allows us to motivate ourselves in order to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves. People who are capable of self-motivation are much more productive and maintain better control of their emotions and the environment with which they interact.

When we start a business or any personal project, we look for external sources to obtain the necessary energy to undertake the initial actions, it happens that this energy disappears over time, once we have to face the problems that arise. The difference between those who are self-motivated and those who are not, is that the first ones do not need to look for more external sources to maintain their mood and energy, since they are clear about their goals and these are enough to provide that extra that will motivate them to work hard to achieve them.

In this guide we will be addressing some basic recommendations so that you can implement self-motivation in your daily life.

Have clear goals

The most important thing when it comes to obtaining any result is to be well focused on what we want to achieve. Many of us want success, personal satisfaction, financial security, among other things, but these alone are not clear goals or objectives. If you want financial stability maybe your goal is to have your own business that allows you to generate enough income to cover your expenses, besides you know that your passion is sports, so maybe a gym makes sense with your ambitions. Focus then on that gym you want to create, visualize your goal and work on achieving it.

Having clear goals will allow you to motivate yourself more easily, it is important that you do not act randomly, everything you do should have a sense, it should lead you towards the fulfillment of the goal you have set. This will keep you focused on the road and it will be much easier to motivate you in the face of failures if you know where you are going.

To try is not to fail

Trying is not failing, it changes the vision you have about failure. The fact of performing a certain action does not guarantee that you will get the desired result, but not getting the desired result does not mean that it is a bad result or a failure. The only failure is not getting any result and this only happens to people who do not act.

If things did not go as you expected, you must learn from the mistake, why it did not go well, how can I improve it, what should I change so that the next attempt is closer to success. These are questions that you should ask yourself, in this way the attempt will have been worthwhile, because it will be an experiment from which you will learn. You will increase your experience, since experience is just that, having gone through and learned from situations.

Once you manage to modify the vision you have about failure, it will not affect you so much when you do not get what you want the first time, you will know that it is a natural part of the road to success and that this should not demotivate you, on the contrary, because now you are a person with much more experience and you know more about your business and how you should not act the next time. This is where self-motivation lies, in not needing to find encouragement outside, because everything you need to motivate you already have it in yourself. Your dreams, clear goals and acquired experience is more than enough to keep you on track even if things don't go as expected. Focus more on the rewards and less on the difficulties.