Motivation is like a shower, you need to take it daily.
Use these tips to help keep you consistently motivated towards your ideal business and lifestyle.
1. Create a powerful morning routine
Your morning routine is key to help put you in the right state for the rest of your day.
How often do you wake up grumpy, sluggish or tired? If you don’t have a routine to help move you out of this state it can have a big negative impact. Instead use gratitude, meditation and visualisation to move yourself into the right state.
You need to have a combination of different exercises that work for you, to prepare you for the day. This routine you do on a consistent basis will help you not only feel better about your life and business, but will start to create momentum to achieve the life you deserve.
The best thing is that it’s this consistency that once built, which means that you don’t need motivation, as you’ll start doing it out of habit. A powerful morning routine is a must!
2. Have a vision board
This is your why. It’s why you do the things you do. Using this you can start to focus on what it is that you want to build and create.
Don’t have something that is boring; make this vision board exciting that you truly want to manifest in your life. Think about how you want to run your business, imagine the team you want to create and the lifestyle you want to live.
By doing this on a regular basis you’re going to be truly focused and the actions you take daily will be more directed towards the attainment of your vision.
3. Measure your progress
This is incredibly important. Remember that progress can also be equated to happiness.
You need to start measuring your progress. Think about the micro wins you have each day and the actions you take that move you towards what you desire. If you don’t acknowledge the small things it’s easy to become demotivated.
Don’t do this in just one area of your life, measure progress in all the different areas of your life so that you can see the steps you are making. This also helps to remind you when you’re falling off track as you are measuring the actions you’re taking.
4. Hire a coach or mentor
You need to have someone to help push you and show you what is possible in the world.
They may believe in you more than you do and that will really help you stay motivated!
Gaining perspectives, insights and clarity into what you’re doing from someone that has either done it before or can ask the right questions, is a priceless investment that will keep you accountable and help you think bigger.
If you haven’t yet, make sure to hire someone and have coaching so that you can reach higher levels of success, abundance and happiness in your life.
5. Create an empowering environment
Your environment is so important for success in business, especially now that many people are working from home.
Have you created an environment that truly empowers you? Do you have things that make you smile, pictures, images or art?
If you haven’t yet, think about what your environment would look like if you had already achieved what you desire.
This will help you put the right elements in place to keep you on track, inspired and focused on creating what you desire.
6. Spend time with inspirational people.
Spend time with people that truly inspire you. This in and of itself will help lift your spirits more than most other things.
Think about in your life where you’ve had a conversation and thought WOW this person is AMAZING! It’s often those small conversations that really inspire us as to what is possible in the world.
If you don’t have access to people like that make sure to check out the Entrepreneur Lifestyle podcast to help keep you inspired on your journey.
Remember don’t spend time with people that drain you of energy. These people are the equivalent of an energy sucking vampire. Avoid them at all costs!
7. Read/listen to brilliant books.
Someone that writes a book generally speaking has spent decades of his or her life researching, analysing and looking at all the best things they have found on a given subject.
Listening to these people saves you decades of time. Find people that you admire and are inspired by and make sure to buy their book.
This will help flood your mind with positivity, perspective and growth that helps you move to higher heights in your life.
8. Do something you love
Don’t stay stuck in the same mundane routine you have done for years.
Instead focus on something you enjoy doing. Whether this is going out running in the park, salsa in the evenings or playing board games with friends.
What is it that you love doing? What would an awesome week look like for you?
I challenge you to pause and consider these questions.
Being aware of these things is one thing, however what is more important is making it happen and taking action. I challenge you to pick one thing that you love and start doing it in the next 2 weeks.
9. Keep hungry
Don’t become complacent and comfortable where you are.
Being comfortable is one of the worst things for humans because it keeps you in the same place.
Remember if you aren’t growing you’re dying.
You need to dream big enough so that you’re excited and have something that you’re really working towards. People that I work with often have a big dream but it’s not big enough to really excite them.
Perhaps it’s time for you to play a bigger game? Where do you need to step up and start to push yourself to even greater heights?
10. Rest
It’s important to take time off and relax; no one can keep going 24/7.
Once you have rested you will feel energised and ready to go. This especially applies to all business owners out there running around like headless chickens being “busy”.
Rest is often the catalyst that gives you new creative ideas to help accelerate your business in new ways.
I challenge you to take off an afternoon on a weekday, start scheduling holidays and give yourself the break you so deserve.
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