Hello Everyone & Welcome Back to the RealPositiveGirl Podcast!
Thank you so much for joining me again!
Happy Wednesday!
This week's theme for the podcast is: Why You're Not Motivated
This week I want to give you tips on restoring some of the reasons why you are lacking motivation. This will range from not knowing what you want in life to avoiding doing anything because of possible negative outcomes.
We all lack motivation at some point in our lives, but sometimes it can be everlasting. And there will be times when motivation is not what we need to lean on, as we all have to do hard things during hard times just because. But learning how to reignite your own personal motivation to get it done or get it started can be so helpful.
Here are some notes from today's episode:
- So I totally get why you would create rewards & prizes for yourself to help boost motivation when going after goals & dreams, but sometimes it can get a little out of control.
- And one of the reasons that people use rewards for getting stuff done is because it creates in the brain a link between pleasure & accomplishments. But I believe there can be a burnout experience in that if we aren’t careful.
- Plus there is also the issue with spending extra money that we don’t necessarily have. And some many argue that rewards don’t have to cost money, but I feel like ‘free’ rewards will only carry you so far & you’re still stuck in the end.
- I feel like 2 of the biggest problems are that you end up spending money on rewards that might push you into an uncomfortable financial place at some point because you are so driven to come up with awesome things that will push you to keep going or you can afford it & do a mix of free things & paid items, but you either run out of ideas, it becomes boring or the thing you are working towards becomes so hard that no reward is really pushing you to keep going.
- Now something I don’t think I made clear at the beginning is that I am speaking about CONSTANT rewards, not ones that are sprinkled in here & there.
- So today I’m not really going to give you a traditional list, like I normally do, but I am going to leave you with some advice on how to use rewards for motivation in the ways I think will assist you best in your goals.
- First, try to start out with no rewards. The beginning of any journey should be exciting on it’s own, so rewards shouldn’t be needed yet.
- Next, don’t use rewards constantly. If you get to a stage in your goal accomplishing where you need to start adding in rewards to spice it up a bit, do every few milestones, not every single one.
- Lastly, accept that giving yourself rewards isn’t going to always work & discipline is the key to accomplishing most things.
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