Motivation
Today, I am going to talk about motivation, what influences it and how to overcome demotivation. At first, let’s know what motivation actually is. Motivation acts as a drive to achieve things that you need or want in your life. Motivation can be of two types, intrinsic and extrinsic. We tend to be more motivated when whatever we do in life has an absolute ‘meaning’, for instance, some students get motivated to study simply to get good grades and in the hope to get praise from his/her parents.
Ways to stay motivated
Nowadays, we tend to continuously look out for available opportunities and sometimes we fail to grab those opportunities that we think are ‘perfect’ for us. Hence, as a consequence, you get demotivated by failure and lose interest to move forward in life. As usual, you lose all your hope and feel like you do not deserve anything good and that you have no control over the things you are doing. You start feeling useless and irrelevant in your field of work.
Ways to be kinder to yourself
With Coronavirus still putting the majority of our lives on hold, it is easy to become disheartened and we often find it hard to be kind to ourselves. Below are some tips to help you to become a little bit kinder to yourself throughout this difficult time.
- Forgive yourself often;