If you feel like a couch potato who cannot get motivated, you are not alone.
Most of us have one or more areas in our lives where we experience hitting a brick wall.
No matter how much we know we need to get moving, we just cannot bring ourselves to take the first step, nor understand why things feel flat and meaningless.
Here are some answers and some ways forward.
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Make sure you set your own meaningful goals.
To get motivated and see something through to its conclusion, it needs to have a significant and compelling meaning for you.
For example, if you want to lose weight but are feeling resistant to going on a diet then you need to find a very powerful reason to do so.
What is such a powerful statement for you that keeps you accountable and on track? How about, "I vow that I am choosing to release this weight and I always keep my word to myself.
I am a person of integrity!" Would you like to believe that about yourself? Then, how can you go back on your word to yourself? You need to follow through! Allow yourself treats along the way and just keep going no matter what happens.
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Ask yourself "what would it take for me to feel like I can achieve something right now, instead of feeling like I cannot do anything? You can bet that it is probably the way you are representing something to yourself, that is making you resistant to taking a step forward.
If you know you need to get fit but just keep feeling you cannot be bothered to do a half hour walk or get to the gym, then you need a new way forward.
Little steps are required to get motivated and feel enthusiastic and keep going.
So, if you have a treadmill at home or a cardio-twister or a small trampoline or skipping rope, instead of trying to make yourself do a half hour session, just do five minutes.
Then go about your business and when you can, do another five minutes.
Whenever you can just do five minutes and before you know it, it will all add up.
This way it is manageable and enjoyable.
Some other simple steps include running to your letter box and running back.
Running to the toilet or, running up the staircase.
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Do not give up.
Keep Going! We all come across challenges in our lives and it is easy to sit back and say "I give up" but this just leads to more powerlessness.
You are a powerful person so, get right back up and realise that there is another way forward that you have not discovered yet.
Use your frustration to help you get motivated to find a different solution.
If you utilise the above suggestions, they will soon help you get motivated and see different results in your life.