Motivation could be the subject of many blog posts as it’s such a wide-ranging subject, so this post is only really going to scratch the surface, but, as with anything in life, you have to start somewhere!
We think of motivation as something we either have or have not, something that can come to us in waves which carry us along for unspecified periods of time, but that often ride out in the end, just like a wave crashes onto the shore. Or maybe we don’t consider ourselves to be a motivated person at all, just getting by on the humdrum of life and not making any real progress to speak of.
Something else that we need to consider is that motivation and procrastination are two sides of the same coin. One day you can toss the coin and motivation turns up, other days, no matter how many times you toss the coin, it always falls on the side of procrastination. I’ve explored procrastination in an earlier post, and you will doubtless see some similarities in this post, but recognising each side of this magical coin will help you to identify your triggers so that you can more often flip on the side of motivation.
So what exactly is motivation? Here are two definitions I particularly like.
From Wikipedia: Motivation is an inner drive to behave or act in a certain manner;
And from the Oxford Dictionary:
[Motivation is] a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. [Read more…] about How To Get Motivated!