Tips for being a happy stay-at-home mom

Boosting Your Motivation Towards Success

Many people have goals but few have the motivation and the smarts to reach them. Fewer still have the mental tenacity to claim their goals. Do you have what it takes to be a success?

To find out, you must be clear on what motivates you, what can hinder that motivation, and the possible ways to work around foreseeable obstacles.

What Makes You Tick?

Motivation is that strong desire or interest to behave or do something in a certain way that would bring them towards achieving their goal. It is what keeps one’s interest and commitment to do things on the premise that such invested perseverance would lead them toward an end-goal fulfilment.

Does being in the roster of the top five fittest of a national Crossfit Throwdown been your personal goal? Bagging the bragging rights of being one of the best athletes in the country is your motivation to push yourself daily to improve your endurance, strength, and flexibility.

Motivation however can be derailed or even crushed when perceived insurmountable obstacles come its way. What can one do then to overcome a motivational decline and keep right on track towards success? In other words, what can beef up your mental tenacity towards goal achievement?

Bumping Up Your Motivation

Be Clear on Why You Want Your Goal

You want something but you are not clear if it’s worth all the bother. You want the trophy but just how much and why is it so important? Muddied reasons to these questions do not set you on a clear rainbow towards that pot of gold. Knowing the basis of your motivation will help you improve your mental toughness to keep on looking ahead. For instance, discovering that your motivation is actually fuelled by fear (fear of displeasing someone, fear of not belonging, etc.), will help you decide whether your end goal is actually worth all your time and effort.

Being clear on why achieving something has become your dream will help you acquire that extra mental push to face and surmount looming obstacles that inevitably fall on anyone’s path to real success.

Cultivate a “Solve the Puzzle” Attitude

When faced with a mountain of an obstacle, people simply look up to the top and imagine an arduous, almost impossible climb to get to the other side, enough to dampen most people’s gung-ho spirits. If you are not most people, however, you may choose to follow the motivational patterns of a Mt. Everest climber or be the smarter guy: find a way around the problem. Think out of the box or adopt the patience of a Rubik’s cube puzzle solver. Either way, you are most likely to get to the other side.

Your realities are what you think it is. If you think something is impossible, it will be. Tweak that thought into positive possibles and the probabilities for success will suddenly loom so much more real and attainable.

Build the Present

Look toward the future for the attainment of your goals; but, pour your attention on the present. The future will inevitably come but the present is what you will make of it. The present is what you have right now so make the most of it.

Be mindful of what you do now because every passing moment is all what you have to build on. Learn from your present experiences and interactions and...

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” - Eckhart Tolle, ‘The Power of Now’

Learn to Ask for Help

The way to success can veer into an advantageous shortcut if one can just learn to put pride or shyness away and ask for the right help. No one individual can know everything; so two heads, three...a hundred are so much more effectively helpful in getting to the endgame than going all solo.

Getting your dream may need you to give credit where credit is due. As the trite saying goes, “No man stands alone.” Well, unless he chooses to be...which gets him nowhere.

Choose the Company You Keep

People who get you down or always dwell on the negative belong to the wrong sort crowd to hang with if you are after goal achievement. If you can help it, ditch these toxic types and try to find like-minded persons with the same go-getter mentality as you have. This way, you can motivate each other towards your own successes.

If you cannot help but be stuck to family members with a crab mentality, the best way around the problem is to set boundaries as best as you can or simply say little about what you are doing. You will get enough doubts along the road to your goal. You do not need more naysayers to affirm these. What you need is a cheering squad that will push you on toward the finish line.

As long as you have a clear goal in sight, take care not to lose that motivation. Keep in mind that success is a mind game. You get what you believe you can.

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