What are the 5 steps to motivation?
1) Write down what you want. Write down exactly what you want and why that goal is so important to you. If you do only this step you'll be ahead of the game. Most people have no idea what they want in life because they have never asked themselves what they want in life thus the lack of motivation. If you want better answers ask better questions. Ask yourself who, what, when, how, and where. Don't ask "why" questions. They are too open-ended and you'll find yourself asking "why" over and over and over again without finding an answer.
2) Aim high. Aim really high when you think about what you want. If it's a low goal you're going to have a hard time getting motivation to get it done. If you could have your dream life, what would it be? Go for it!
3) Make a plan. Make a plan by imagining you have achieved your goal. Working backwards from that point ask yourself what happened that helped you get there. Write down those steps.
4) Take action. Meditation, visualization, positive thinking are all awesome tools, but action is vital. Nothing will happen without taking action to get it done. As Jim Rohne says, "You can't pay someone else to do push-ups for you." You need to develop action muscles. These muscles will help you generate habits, and habits have led you to where you are now. To get what you have never had you must generate new habits. The legend Aristotle said, "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation... We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Make an action list of daily things that you can do to get to where you want to go.
5) Be accountable. Get an accountability partner. It has been shown that when people are accountable to a person or a group they are more likely to be persistent in taking action. Find someone that you can meet with at the same time every week and tell them about your progress. Each week tell them what you did to move toward your goals and what you plan to do during the following week. If you want to take it further you can do this daily. Have a daily list of actions that you can take to accomplish your goal and meet with your partner every day.
Those are your 5 steps to motivation.
