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When The Motivation Of The Mind Decreases

In today’s article how to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind.

Have you ever been doing well and feeling great for everything in your life to just stall? You ever felt grouchy and reactive and you don’t know why?

This came about in my own life every time I set a goal. There came a point where my motivation and my presence of mind became unfocused. This became a significant problem at certain points in my life, where my performance stopped me from succeeding. It became a frustration, and because I never listened to my subconscious signals, it held me back. One day a solution came to my mind. It was like an update for the brain. Today we will dig deeper to find out how to unlock the motivation to succeed again.

Personal Battles Of Demotivation

How to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind

After setting goals I always felt clear-headed and it allowed me to be motivated to attain my goal. Success came quickly and everyone around enjoyed the new me and everything was going upwards. At last, I’m on the right track I thought.

Then weeks later something gradual happens, my mood starts changing, my energy starts becoming more lethargic, doubt enters the mind, depression hits me, people around me lose trust in my message. What’s going on?

Then the two words that have saved my life enter my mind. MENTAL UPDATE. This is not the sexiest phrase to hear in the world. But it was vital for me to calibrate my mind to move forward again.

The problem that always held me back was,

Not resetting the bar of where to go next
Not looking at what I’ve actually achieved
Comparing my progress to others

With this internal information coming to the surface of my thoughts.

To give me peace of mind I got to work to find a system I could use to stay on an upward curve of my intrinsic motivation. As well as listening to my subconscious mind if signals I could start picking upon.

Below is what I discovered that can help you regain your intrinsic motivation to succeed.

Unlocking The Mind Through Mediation

It’s well known now that meditation can have profound effects on the mind. You have to look no further than a Buddhist monk on the extraordinary discipline and control they have.

Meditation is a learned skill that takes many hours of practice to master or at least in my case still on my journey to mastery.

The reason for meditation was to keep my self-motivation in the mind motivated and on an upward curve. Meditation is a great way for your thoughts to flow out. The reason why it can be difficult to see the downward curve of intrinsic motivation is that my mind can be always busy.

Busy with work, raising children, family, bills etc. The non-stop barrage of always having something to do can stop the subconscious mind from opening into the conscious mind.

Meditation, helped a lot with understanding the feelings I felt, what I needed to do next in my life and what’s actually upsetting me. Immediately after meditating, I would write these thoughts into a journal and got to work on fixing any issues. This helps to change your motivation back into an upward curve motion. Once the problems are fixed. The meditation classes return to a clear mind until the next problems surface from the subconscious minds.

There are many strategies to meditating that you can find on apps and online. For me, it helped by being in solitude and meditating using the breathwork technique of square breathing. Then slowly letting my mind enter deep meditation. I schedule a 30-minute slot to do it but I never time myself and will only come out of it when I’m ready. This for me stops the mind from worrying about time and stays focus.

Unlocking Your Subconscious Mind To Succeed

The subconscious mind is such a powerful friend. It works behind the scenes to allow us to breathe, heal our wounds, stores all our memory’s and everything we have learned. The problem we have is the conscious mind being able to access the information when we need it.

For answering the title of the article, how to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind. Tapping into your subconscious is of importance to find a solution.

Here’s a list of 3 techniques you can apply today,

Having time to be silent to listen to your thoughts
Asking yourself a series of questions to unlock the answers you seek
Write it all down and then analyse the data to find solutions of action

These techniques above helped me stop and take notice of myself and what needed to change in order to regain my motivation to succeed.

How Motivation Can Be Improved Through Journaling

After just writing an article The Surprising Benefits Of Journaling Has On The Mind it would be rude not to include it here. Unlocking your motivation can be powerfully done with a pen and some paper. The form of writing that is journaling is like God speaking down to humans to write religious literature.

The same principle applies here as your subconscious mind is the all-powerful being and your conscious mind is the human who writes down what the subconscious tells us.

Journaling helps so many people in many different ways. To regain my intrinsic motivation it helped to write down all the problems I have in my life, the feelings I feel and the worry I have. Writing them down lifts a weight from you. Which if left untreated can cause serious damage to your motivation.

With all my subconscious thoughts flooding the paper. It’s important now to find a way out. By creating solutions to everything you have written down. This can guide you on the journey you must undertake in your development. I create, to-do list, vision boards, a road map etc. Whatever is best for you, design it and execute it.

Every week or month touch base with the subconscious mind and journal again.

How To Unlock Motivation To Succeed Within The Mind

Hopefully, you know now how to unlock the full potential of your mind. Through meditation, listening to your subconscious and journaling what it says.

To keep your mind motivated there are some great techniques you create as habits to maintain your intrinsic motivation.

Gratitude daily
Exercise daily
Having a diet that boosts the mind
Visualise your future self
Have a victory list of all your achievements
Forgive daily
Positive self talk

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed How to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind. Understanding what motivated me and demotivates has allowed my life to go in the direction I want. Knowing how powerful your subconscious mind is and to utilise it for your benefit. Helps to unlock the mind to do wonderful things that help our overall happiness.

If you are demotivated at the moment try this immediately or contact me @thefuturemindset on Instagram for more guidance. If you’re on a high still practice this above to keep you in that sweet spot for longer.

Keep building that mental strength and we can all change our mindset to change our future.

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The Mind Wandering To Procrastination

In this article, we will discuss how to stop your mind wandering to procrastination. We will look into scientific studies as well as findings from experts and my own experiences to beat procrastination.

I feel every human, myself included have to deal with procrastination on a daily basis. It’s like the devil on your shoulder always pushing you to the easy. I don’t think procrastination will ever go away but there are techniques, routines and habits that can be formed to help your mind stop wandering into procrastination.

So let start off with,

What is procrastination?

Procrastination is the act of putting something off in the pursuit of something easier to do practically or deal with emotionally within the mind. Research has indicated procrastination is a form of poor self-regulation like a habit you need to do but keep putting it off. Essentially it’s part of every human on Earth and training the procrastination muscle is essential to getting things done.

Why Do We Procrastinate?

There are many reasons on an individual basis of why we procrastinate. You know within yourself the times you are most affected by procrastination. The main reason why we procrastinate is based on our feelings of how we feel now or how we feel in the future.

To explain more, when we put things off in the present it’s because it feels too hard to do and when we put things off based on it being done in the future is because we trick ourselves to believing we have enough time to do it.

Both are damaging mindsets to have to your progression and allows a wandering mind to procrastination.

How To Stop Your Mind Wandering To Procrastination

Don’t worry, if you’re a serial procrastinator you are not alone. We have all been there but there is hope. You can get a grip on controlling your procrastinating urges. You do this by understanding that procrastination is never going to go away. EVER!

How you overcome procrastination is the same process as to how we overcome a lack of muscle strength or understanding of a new language. We treat procrastination as a muscle. That we need to train every day because if we don’t it will fall back into its old ways.

Here are some strategies below that can help you from wandering to procrastination,

Option 1 Getting rid of distractions and temptations

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How tempting is it to just say I will do it later? I will just watch one episode then 8 episodes later you have the regret of not doing what you set out to do. From my own experience very tempting.

With distraction at our fingertips now it’s even easier to procrastinate with Games, films, tv shows, social media and Youtube. When I was studying at university this was one of the main distraction from getting my work done. Mainly because their work was hard and this was a much easier choice.

Here are my top 3 tips to apply to get rid of distraction and temptation,

Have everything prepared and easily viewable – If it’s exercise, have your clothes, yoga mat already out ready to use. If it’s writing when you open your phone or laptop it’s the first thing you see.
Clean your phone – Delete any major distractions from your phone or you have time outs on your most addictive apps.
Get started straight away – Upon awakening get the hardest task done straight away (Also by exercising straight away in the morning helps focus the mind) to overcome any distraction. Later in the day, it’s much easier to put things off.

Today make a list of your 3 major distractions and create a plan to avoid procrastination.

Option 2 – Make it easy to get started

The amount of times I have put things off because it was too hard to do. Are a long list and I mean long!! For example, when I started writing, the thought of writing over 1000 words was very daunting, to say the least. At university, this really unlocked the procrastination when I had to do a ten thousand word dissertation.

What I have learned that has helped a great deal with overcoming procrastination is starting anything challenging by making it easy to do. If it’s writing, set your goal as 250 words, if its exercises, set your goal for just a 10-minute workout.

This amazing strategy overcomes the hardship of procrastination brilliantly. Anything hard you have to do, make it easy and you will be surprised how you feel when you achieve it and how much more you actually do once you get started.

One of the biggest obstacles for procrastination is starting and this is a proven strategy that works.

Plus even if you only do 250 words a day of writing or 10 minutes a day of exercising. If you do this for 7 days the minimum you will achieve is 1750 words completed and 70 minutes of exercise within your week. That’s far better than procrastinating and doing nothing at all.

The Power Of Compound

The proven strategy of the compound effect is at play here too. Even by doing a little over time will lead to something much bigger in the future.

So if you have one month to do a ten thousand word essay. Doing 333 words a day if far better choice and easy than doing it all in one day or leaving it to the last minute to do. Which is the worst feeling!!

Start small, start easy and watch yourself de procrastinate and grow.

Get Your Mind Back From Wandering Procrastination

A study by Caroline Williams showed how you can improve your procrastination muscle which you can read in the link. But the study also showed that when you do go off track from your task.

The most important thing to do is not stress as this creates the procrastination to come back and take over. Just like pulling a seat belt too hard, a calmer approach is a must to stave off the mind wandering to procrastination.

So to help keep your mind from going back into procrastination is staying calm, the best ways for me to do this is,

Daily Meditation
Focus on breathing
Do important work alone

Final Thoughts

I hope we delivered a way for you to control your procrastination in this article – how to stop your mind wandering to procrastination.

I know it’s hard and I know there can be a lot of regrets when you don’t achieve what you were set out to do because you got in your own way. But by treating procrastination like a muscle, you can find solutions to overcome it with better habits.

I wish you all the best and get building that procrastination muscle!

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