I’ll be discussing how to stay motivated over the long term.
How to stay motivated over the long term
Staying motivated over the long term is actually not the best thing to do. What you should do is find the activities that bring you the most fulfillment and fall in love with the process of progressing in it. You can find motivation in many things. If you’re not sure where to start, it could be in the external rewards that could be won in performing at a high level.
What if progress isn’t immediately visible?
If progress isn’t immediately visible. There should be personal goals set in order to find satisfaction. Ideally it’ll work where you have something as close to a checklist as possible in where you can confirm and validate that the work you wanted finish got done.
Strategies I rely on to stay consistent
- Habit building
- prioritizing automation
- vision boarding
- “Sound it out”
- Snacking on typical foods
- “warmup” routine
- continuing to put people first
Those all need context to some effect, so I’ll be providing just that. Here I go:
Habit building: the act of creating activities that I can be relied upon with doing often. This beats trusting motivation because it can be fickle.
Prioritizing automation: the incorporating of tools and assistants that do things on behalf of my image to continue producing. They make it possible to free up time to do more important things for myself and the rest of my business.
Vision Boarding: building around desires and plans for the future. There’s several ways to make a vision board. It could be done through writing, drawing, recording, and any other medium to paint a picture.
”Sound it Out”: A phrase that means I’ll make music around the goals and experiences I go through or people around me. Music in itself is therapeutic, and the feelings get compounded with helping others feel better. Because it’s reliable for me I truly believe it helps me remain consistent; whether it’s for myself or the people that follow what I make. Knowledge exists and gets recycled this way.
Snacking on typical foods— a large part of consistency that’s possibly the most universal. One of my family members told me that eating will be a large part of life for everybody. It ties in with being habitual because we are what we eat, and that can be taken advantage of. So developing healthy snacking routine is a big part of my consistency. I can eat the same thing for the most part and because of that I’m inherently consistent.
Warmup routine: commonly used in sports and translates well to life outside of it in where you find a consistent way to get “activated” and productive. It’s consistently relied upon for the benefits it brings. It could be seen as a pre workout activity to make sure you give your best effort each time.
Continuing to put people first is one of my personal mantras to live by because it’s what kept me around this far. It’s one of my foundational principles that I was raised on so I continue exercising it. Whenever I have a chance to be useful within reason, I act on it. Help enough people and eventually you get exactly where you’re trying to go to.