"Keep yourself motivated"

Keeping yourself motivated towards your goal is maybe the toughest thing or obstacle an individual has to encounter towards their journey to attain fame or success.

Before knowing the tricks to keep yourself motivated, the first question is why do we lose our track towards our goal. Is our determination not that strong? Do we start to take things lightly when the going is going good? Is that goal not attractive enough for us to give up on our distractions? Do we overtexert ourselves before the peak period starts to begin?

Before knowing the best tricks to motivate yourself, it is important to know on which category do you rightly fall as it is rightly said “a particular type of medicine works on a particular patient”.

Some of the tricks I mention are not your routine tricks but they have definitely helped me to motivate me multiple times.

• One of the most important ways to self motivate is you is to dream and dream big. I know some people will say that we should not live in a life of fantasy and we should be more realistic, but there is a fine line between living in a paradise and watching your dreams come to reality. Every person who is trully inclined to his/her goal should dream about their success, because that's the best way you can get self motivation even during the toughest of times. The question what if? Is really important as it not only kicks us in the face but also tells us to get up and get going.

• If you are one of the person who is truly not motivated that means you really need to shift your goal and focus on something else as that clearly doesn't excite you.

• The next important way to get yourself motivated is maintain a time table. I know this will should childish but it is a very important way to know your current situation and track your progress. Always at the end of the day you need to question yourself have you done the best you could have. If the answer is no, then the fire inside you should motivate you to not replicate this again. Hence a burning densire inside you is really important as it can be rekindled easily.

• You need to track your daily progress and assessing yourself is really important.

• One of the unconventional ways to motivate yourself is to sometimes switch off. This works only certain number of people who have overexerted themselves. Go watch a movie, talk to your friends or your mentor is a way you can motivate your way for further goals as no one can work 100 percent efficiently towards their goal. This break really help to restructure your thinking, reiterate your thoughts and mindset and go at it again.

• Sometimes to fail in your life can be the biggest motivation. I know no one wants to fail in their lives as we all want to be winners. The hard truth is everyone cannot be winners as 99.9% percent people get distracted by movies, social media, etc. Hence sometimes a slap in the face can be the most important thing to get up and bring your life back on life again. Hence if you fall try to fall forwards and not backwards. These failures can give you an everlasting motivation to get your engine going.

• Always remember circumstances create motivation and strong people. Hence to keep yourself motivated you need to have an idol or mentor you look up to. When ever you are thinking to take life easy think of the hardships your idol had to go through before reaching where he reached. This idol will always remind you to become an inspiration for another person. For me, personally being a no one always motivates me.

• Last but not the least there are a list of great motivational movies and quotes that can really motivate you but remember this will be a temporary motivation which will not last for that long and it will only help to rekindles that desire inside you. Here a list of motivating movies that you can enjoy:

. The pursuit of happiness

. Moneyball

. Super 30

. The social network

. Jerry Maguire

. 3 idiots

. Whiplash

. Slumdog millionaire

. The fighter

. The shawshank redemption

I hope you all liked my answer and this is my first proper answer I have written in Quora spending the time and writing my mind out(thanks due to lots of free time at home) . So I hope you guys will appreciate it and share your opinions in the comment section.

Cheers.