Self motivation is valuable both at work and in your personal life.
It is not something that should be seen as a passive activity that just happens to you but as something you can work at to increase your chances of being inspired.
One way to do this is to analyse what you can do to emphasize and seek out what is motivational and avoid things that demotivate or distract you.
Pick the Brain has some good analysis on how to keep motivated.
Fundamental techniques are:
1. A belief that you can make a difference
2. Set an objective that you can be excited about
3. Break the objective into small activities which you can see the change you have made (manage your plan to create positive feedback to encourage further effort).
4. Pay attention to the feedback and try making changes if the results aren’t moving you forward. Perhaps you need to set smaller objectives or try a different approach.
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