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3 Quick and Easy Ways to Get Motivated

By: Kurt Schmitt

In order to stay motivated, we need to renew our motivation daily. This is the advice we got from motivational great, Zig Ziglar.

Whether it's a project at work, starting a new business, or something personal like losing weight, we all need to get motivated in order to complete the task. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Try driving down the road and slamming on the breaks and see if you don't keep going when the car stops. Better yet, don't do that. It might be bad for your health.

Inertia can be an ally, because once you get going, it's easier to stay in motion. The hard part is to get things started in the first place, and that's where motivation comes in.

Below are 3 ways to get motivated, inspired, and unstuck from a rut.

Select a mantra -- Using a mantra can have some advantages. You can use it every day to remove negative thoughts and clear the way for positive things. A mantra is traditionally a sound or series of sounds that are repeated over and over again during meditation sessions. But a mantra can become much more than that.

Creating short and to the point mantras is what Guy Kawasaki recommends as an alternative to long and sometimes confusing mission statements. Using mantras can evoke a sense of power, and put us in a state of calm strength whenever we need it.

Mantras can also act as guiding principles for behavior and help with decision making. Google's "do no harm" philosophy is a mantra for how to do business.

You can use them for meditation as well as a way to find calm confidence and deep strength when needed. Mantras should be short. A few words is plenty. You can choose any mantra you like, and you can choose several of them for use in various situations.

Get physical -- As goes the mind, so goes the body. Here's an exercise from Tony Robbins. Try being depressed for a moment. What happens? Your shoulders slump, your eyes immediately head toward the ground, and your head sinks down. Can you feel that? When we feel a certain way, our bodies reflect that.

Now, try using your body to prevent a depressed feeling from overtaking you. Stand up tall showing off your best posture. Smile. Lift your arms and put them straight out at your sides to form a cross with your body. Tilt your head back and stare up at the ceiling. Lift one foot off the floor and hum out loud.

It's hard to be depressed while smiling in that pose. Now, ask yourself what you can do physically every day to improve your state of mind. Maybe it's standing in this pose, maybe it's lifting weights, or maybe it's yoga. Whatever your preference, do something physical daily to get motivated.

Time travel -- This exercise will get you motivated as fast as anything I know. We all know that hindsight is 20/20. In each and every moment, we have choices to make. I hear people say that they have no choice. This is not true. You can eat the fattening dessert or not. You can do right or you can do wrong. You always have a choice.

Sometimes we regret the choices we've made in the past. Often, we fool ourselves into thinking that we had no choice and won't have a choice if similar circumstances arise again.

Try this out. Imagine your future. Think about what it's like in your future a few years from now. Now, look back at the present moment that you're in right now. Given the opportunity, what would you have done differently?

What can you do right now to make that future that you want become a reality? Say it out loud. Write it down. Make a plan. Now, go do it.

These are just a few of the ways that you can bend your reality just a bit and get motivated. There's no limit to the ways that you can gain control of your future if you'll just apply a few simple principles.

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Author Kurt Schmitt has created an online resource on inspirational sayings including motivation information




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