3 Quick And Easy Ways To Get Motivated

As Zig Ziglar warned us, motivation fades. This means we need a daily boost in order to get motivated.

Whether it's household chores, losing that last 10 (or 50?) pounds, or tackling that next project at work, we need motivation. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

The power of inertia keeps you going. Test it out the next time you hit the breaks in your car.

Inertia can work for you, because once you get going, you'll tend to keep going. The challenging part is to get things started (and re-started), and that's where motivation comes in.

Here are 3 ways to get inspired, unstuck from a rut, and get your momentum going.

Choose your mantra -- Choose a mantra, then use it daily to wipe away the negative and make room for good things to happen. In the traditional sense, a mantra is a sound or series of sounds that are repeated over and over again during meditation. But, they can be much more than that.

Guy Kawasaki says that instead of long mission statements, we should use mantras to tell the world what we're all about. Short and to the point, 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.

Mantras should be only a few words long at most. You can use them for meditation sessions as well as a sort of battle cry when you need strength. You can choose any mantra you like, and you can choose several of them for use in various situations.

Do something physical -- Tony Robbins teaches us that when we feel a certain way, we reflect that in our bodies. Try being depressed for a moment. What happens? Your shoulders slump, your eyes immediately head toward the ground, and your head faces down. Can you feel that? As goes the mind, so goes the body.

Now, try using your body to your advantage. Stand up tall showing off your best posture. Put your head back and look up at the ceiling. Smile. Put your arms straight out at your sides. 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.

Travel through time -- This exercise is an amazing eye opener and will get you motivated as fast as anything I know. Hindsight is 20/20. We all have choices. In each moment, we choose what we do. I hear people say that they have no choice. This is not true. You always have a choice. You can kill yourself if you want. You'll find a way if that's what you really want to do.

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.

So now, pretend that you're in your own future. Think about what it's like in your future. It's moments like this when we see what we really want. Now, look back at the present moment that you're in right now. What would you have done differently?

What can you do right now to make that future that you want become a reality? Spell it out and say it out loud. Next, make a plan to achieve it and write it down. What are you waiting for? 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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