It's easy to stay motivated when you're racking up subscribers, and views, and revenue, and
sales, and everything is going great.
But what about when you're starting from zero, which we all have?
How do you stay motivated?
I know you have big goals, and big dreams, and you deserve to achieve them, but I also
understand that sometimes you just lose all motivation.
So how do you fix it?
I'm going to tell you exactly what I do in this video.
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So let's dive in.
What do you do when you lose all motivation?
Because let's face it, it happens.
And you can give this video a like if you know what I mean or even leave a comment below
and just let me know if you've been there before or if you're there right now, where
you just feel completely stuck and like you want to do all of these things but you just
aren't feeling up to doing them.
Let's go through the exact list that I still do to this day when I've lost all motivation.
First thing I do is a brain dump.
What I mean by this is oftentimes when I lose motivation it's because I am feeling so overwhelmed
by everything that I have to do, whether it's in my personal life, professional life, or
all of the things, because let's face it, we all have a lot to do and we all have a
lot on our plate, so it feels so good to just get it out of your head and get it on paper.
So the first thing to do is just sit down and write everything out that you feel like
you need to be doing and you feel like you want to be doing.
That is your brain dump.
And it's going to allow you to see what do you really need to be doing right now, what's
actually important and what do you actually have to be doing on your own versus getting
help with.
The second thing is so important, and we all forget to do this, myself included, but it's
celebrating the little wins.
Because science has shown through many studies that the more that you celebrate the wins
in your life, big or small, the more it builds momentum.
And it's like this snowball effect of wins that create more wins.
So I oftentimes will see in the comments on my channel or in our private programs, people
are like," Ugh, I'm just growing so slowly.
I'm not getting enough subscribers.
I'm not making any sales yet."
Or blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the funny thing is the people who I see have the most success are never complaining.
They're celebrating every single little win.
They're sitting there going, "Oh my gosh, I just gained my first subscriber," or "I
gained three subscribers today.
That's three human beings who subscribed to my channel.
That's amazing."
So they're focusing on the things that they want.
They're focusing on the things that are actually good and things worth celebrating as opposed
to focusing on the negative.
Because if you watch my video on the law of attraction, check it out here, then you know
that what you focus on is what you're going to get, whether it's bad or good.
So if you focus on the things that you're lacking or you're frustrated about, you're
going to get more of that.
If you focus on the things that are really good and the momentum that you're building,
you're going to build more of that.
So celebrate your wins, big or small.
The third thing is to increase your motivation you got to increase your appreciation.
So what I mean by that is you can feel more motivated when you feel like things are good
in your life.
Like I said earlier, when things are going well and you're on a roll, it's really easy
to stay motivated.
But when you're a little frustrated or things aren't moving as fast as you want to, it's
human nature to feel like you're stuck and things aren't going your way.
So you have to focus on appreciation and gratitude.
So every single day, morning and night, I start my day and I end my day by giving thanks
for you, for my family, for my health, for my friends, for my able body, for everything
in my life that is going for me.
Because the more I focus on the good, the more of that I'm going to get.
So appreciate what you have right now and it will create more of it because what you
appreciate appreciates.
The fourth step is create a mini action plan.
This is not something that has to be a huge to-do, but you want to create an action plan
of the things that you need to focus on moving forward so you can actually do them, because
the best way to stay motivated and get motivated is to do something about it.
Do something about it.
So it can be many little things or it can be big ass goals.
And if you want to see how I do this on a daily basis, check out this video on how I
plan my day, and it'll be super helpful to see how it's all laid out.
So create a plan, create an action plan so that you can start taking actions because
the killer of a lack of motivation is action.
So to get motivated, you got to take action.
The fifth thing is rest and rejuvenate.
And I know you're probably sitting there thinking, "Huh, why would I rest when I'm not getting
anything done?
I probably should be getting things done," because you need to pay attention to your
body.
And take it from me, I have dealt with burnout in the past and it scared me straight that
if you're just unmotivated because you're exhausted, that's normal so give yourself
a break.
And it feels counterintuitive, it feels like it's the wrong thing to do, but allowing yourself
to have a day to just veg and do nothing is probably going to propel you further faster
than trying to push through your exhaustion.
So I like to think about it as clean home, clean body, clean self and clean mind.
So clean home means tidy up your home because it's really hard to be motivated if you're
living in a mess.
And it makes you feel clearheaded and able to do things and tackle the things you want
to do when you know your home is in a really great situation.
So clean home, clean body means making sure that you are eating the things that you should
be eating to keep your brain intact and to motivate your body and fuel your body.
So eating things that are healthy for you, good for you.
Instead of feeling like a slob, kebab and eating things like chips and burgers and all
the things that aren't going to make you feel great and actually are going to impact your
energy in a bad way.
Clean self means actually just take care of yourself, so go have a long bath or take a
shower and allow yourself to just feel good.
When you look good, you feel good.
And when you feel clean and refreshed, you actually will be that way in your life.
So take care of yourself.
And clean minds means empty everything out that is not important and really getting focused
on the things that you need to be taking action on, as I mentioned before.
And doing that brain dump is going to allow you to do that.
And the final piece of this to get motivated is to reward yourself.
It's so important because we will get stuck in a hole.
I know that I do where I'm just constantly trying to achieve the next thing, and you
lose sight of everything we just talked about.
And that's when you start to feel unmotivated because you feel like nothing's moving fast
enough.
But if you actually look back and see how far you have come, you will see that you're
amazing and you've done so much to get to this point today, but you've never stopped
to congratulate yourself.
And again, like I said earlier about celebrating wins, rewarding yourself as just as important.
So to motivate yourself, sometimes we all need a little external motivation.
So when I was working on a huge project a couple months ago, I was like, "When I finish
this project, I'm going to buy myself a really nice purse," and that was my motivation.
I was like, I'm going to go splurge on myself and get myself something that I've always
wanted.
And that is my external motivation.
It's not great to be externally motivated all the time, but you can do other things
like when I finish this project or when I do this thing, I'm going to binge watch that
Netflix show and I'm going to just chill in bed for the rest of the day, or I'm going
to go out with my friends, or go out on a night on the town with my boyfriend or girlfriend
or wife or husband or whatever.
So making sure that there's a carrot dangling at the end, that's going to help you motivate
yourself to get going so you can get to that reward at the end.
I want to know what you're going to do to kickstart your motivation out of everything
that I just shared.
And let's help motivate each other in the comments below.
And don't forget, I can personally give you a kick in the butt to get motivated because
our grand prize of this series, and this is the final episode in this series, so thank
you so much for watching.
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