How to boost your motivation to achieve your goals

By: Hani Al-Qasem

How seriously do you want your desires? How motivated are you to be persistent in pursuing your goals and dreams until they are achieved?

How much you want your goals and dreams determines the strength of your motivation. It is that strength that will steadfastly chase after your goals irrespective of any challenges.

I remember a friend who set himself a goal that he felt very excited about. He talked for days on end about that goal; what it meant to him and how he really wanted to achieve it within six months at the most.

A couple of months later, my friend Bill, took me aside. I could see he was feeling depressed. He went on to tell me how disappointed he was that his goal had not been realised.

“Goal? What Goal?” was my honest answer. It was not what Bill wanted to hear.

“You know, my goal to get a sculptured body,” Bill answered, with a sense of defeat in his voice.

“Oh that. I thought you were kidding. We all figured you changed your mind since we don’t see you going to the gym anymore,” I replied.

What happened here?

In the beginning, Bill was excited about his new goal of getting a toned body; a sculptured chest, arms and thighs. He was full of motivation and determination to achieve that goal.

He constantly went to the gym four to five days a week. He took his protein shakes, his Creatine and chatted endlessly about his training schedule and how pleased he was with his progress.

By the third month, he started to go to the gym twice a week and mid-way through that month it went down to once a week.

His dilemma was he couldn’t understand why his motivation to workout had declined to once a week half-way through the third month.

“At the beginning, I was so full of motivation. I felt nothing could stop me,” he explained.

So what went wrong? Where did his incredible motivation go?

After careful consideration, it came to light that Bill had lost his initial burst of motivation because he was not really passionate about being toned.

It was merely a passing ‘wish’. In other words, he did not want to be toned badly enough. If he did, if he felt passionate, he would have continued his workout routine no matter what challenges or distractions he faced.

Bill was torn between two thoughts. The first said, “Yeah I’d like to have a toned body.” But his conflicting second thought argued, “Sure, but you could get along in life without it.”

And who won? His conflicting thought did. You see, Bill would have ‘liked’ the sculptured body, but he did not turn that want into a solid goal. The toned body idea remained just that, an a wish. As such, his once powerful motivation had weakened until it disappeared.

If he had turned it into a goal, he would have pursued it. He would have been enthusiastic and motivated to pursue that goal irrespective of how tired he was.

After all, it was his goal. And goals are meant to be achieved.

Passion ignites the drive from deep within to maintain the motivation to reach all sorts of goals and dreams. Passion provides the fuel to keep you in a highly motivated state of mind.

Once you find out what you are passionate about, boost your motivation to remain persistent regardless of any obstacles.

In time, your motivation will increase in energy regardless of any distractions.

Motivation pushes you to take consistent daily action to achieve and live your goals.

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