How to stay motivated?
This question is a good description of one my hardest problems that I am trying to fix right know. So I decide to get every information that I could get to fix this lag. I googled it, as well. And I found some good point between many shit. It is not in my way to get motivation for a short moment. It is not about "Ok lets do it right now". It is more about the long term. How to stay focused to your targets and aspire to the the things in the way you stared it.
And yes many small "motivation-push" will bring you in the right way. But the small things are not enaugh if you want to get big (in sth. or for sth.).
So well, here are my points about "How to stay motivated":
1. Targeting - but do it right
2. Progress - Progress - Progress
3. Reset - Do not overheat!
1. Targeting - but do it right
Targeting is the first point that I would recommend if you want to stay motivated for a long time. Without long-time-targets you cant split this thing into many smaller targets. And without small targets you dont have the progress-point that I will describe in the point 2.
If you reach the bad days without any motivation that will not end you will (maybe) develope the question "whats about stoppting this". It is quit normal. And if you cant see a real and clear view about how getting the long-time-targets, you may loose the motivation. Without a real and clear view it is like hopeless to search for motivation by drink some coffee, get some fresh air or look some good points to do this.
"Reward yourself" - I read this sentence like 100 times. I give a shit about it. If I dont see my path to my goal I will not get suprised by a coming motivation by saying myself that I would get X or Y if I do this right now.
Maybe it is just my feeling but I can not manage my motivation-problems by saying "you get X or Y if you do this now". No - I need a good plan with my targets AND A PATH. A real path that I can see and feel. A path that will bring me to my long-term-targets.
So for me there is no way to do it withou targets. But there are some "normal" points that should be considered, because targets are no dreams. Targets are no things that you will get anyway. Targets are specific thoughts about what you can reach if you do something. Thinking about it twice and thrice should be a ordinary part of it. Are the targets doable? Are the targets the shit you really want to reach? Do you have a path to reach your goals? Do you know the details to reach your goals?
Build targets -> build a path to reach the targest (like many smaller targets) and write it down. This is "my" first part of a big package which can help myself to stay motivated in a long-term.
2. Progress - Progress - Progress
I think this point is the point with the bigger amount of motivation. Buf for this the targets is just the minimal requirement. Back to the days you want to stop something cause you cant see yourself going straight to your goals. Progress will now show you that you are stright to your goals. If you can show yourself now the progress that you did and that you go step by step by step forward your goals, you have a chance to go on.
There are many ways to show yourself your progress. The easiest is taking your week-targets and seeing how you worked on it. You did this week like "nothing"? You was so unmotivated that you did not reached a single point of your week-target-list? No problem - check out the last 10 weeks and look what you reached in this time. Basis for this are the weekly/monthly targets.
3. Reset - Do not overheat!
It is perfect if you are like warm/hot and working hard for your goals. But if you get the point of overheat yourself you just will get a burn-down. With a burndown I realy do not want to go on the way I am doing. Our inner says us that we doing to mutch.
So playing to long, to mutch, having to less sleep, have not mind-balance is no way. The limit is not the same by me as by you. But I am sure everyone has a limit. And disrespecting this will costs more than will brings positive.
I am did this one time (aleast). And I wish you all that you will not reach such a burn-down-moment/time. Because in such a moment you have to scale yourself down. More as you want to.
It is not about having a perfect day - every day. There are days you cant reach your targets. And this is ok. If it would not be like this it would not be called "targets". Targets are things that you want to reach day by day. But you will not get this targets everyday. If you get your day-goals on every singel day, than your targets are not hight enought.
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Here my graph, the last sessions put me down but I think I played better as the rest of the time so I am happy in generel 
