How to get Motivate and stay Motivated!!

A very difficult question to answer indeed…

I know motivation is not something which i can get from outside, it should come from within and there should a some strong urge or desire to drive that. From past 2 weeks i am feeling like lethargic and no mood for anything feeling like going nowhere. I think this might be becoz of the nature of the work which i am doing now, sometimes feels monotonous. I wonder why me.. bcoz when i look back now for the work which i did in the past 6 months or so, i shouldn’t feel like this.

I successfully learned new technologies and aligned myself to a new project which is completely different from what i was doing before, did CCIP in less than 10 weeks, executing the assigned project within schedule, had a nice time with my family and friends and sometimes i do blogging and so on. Wondering how it can happen for a person like me who is enjoying his life so well both personally and professionally,but again it is a matter of time i believe.

After much consulting and research i came to know that this is just a transient phase which can happen to anyone. The only thing is you need to be focussed enough to get rid of this so called transient phase. Now question is how to come out of this, answer is self-motivate. To get motivate does not makes me great but stay motivate does matter a lot.. Thats how i think i can overcome this devil. huh……..but how to get motivate and stay motivate.

Everyone knows there is no magic formula to get motivate and be successful in life, when i do observe all the successful people around me, one common thing which they share among them is, they are all doing what they love and they love what they do…! as simple as that.

Sadly for most of us we dont know what we are good at and what we love, bcoz people who love their work, they do it passionately for 18 hrs a day that makes them ticking. In my case i do love my job which i am doing now but struggling to get a start. As i said earlier it is very difficult for one to be get and stay motivate all the time, there should be some strong force is needed to drive that motivation.

The force can be anything, it may be ur own dream company,car,home blah.blah….. for me the inner force is to achieve CCIE which i am planning to start my preparation from next week. Hope this urge of getting CCIE should make me ticking and stay motivate at least for sometime now.

Here are some of the key points on how to stay motivated:

* We must define success for ourselves.

* Be aware of our own strengths and weaknesses

* Your personal solutions lie within you.

* To sustain motivation, do better than in the past.

* Motivation often comes from a challenge.

* It is necessary at times to make a positive out of a negative.

* The most important thing for an achievement-orientated person is to have a clear goal.

* I believe motivation is closely tied to purpose.

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Hope this will help somebody to realize their potential and be a champion in their own world…… My 2 Cents!!!