I have been in a rut.
I can’t seem to get motivated to start on any of my goals. It frustrates me because I have so much on my list that I need to get done, but it keeps on slipping further and further away. I want to get started. I want to take over the world
But I just end up turning to shut the snooze button again for another 10 minutes.. Taking over the world can wait another 5 minutes.
Why can’t I get started?
Contribute Your Personal Motivational Strategies and Stories
I need some motivational tactics to help me get started throughout the day and I would like your help. What tactics or strategies have you used to start a goal or start your day? What was the difficult parts for you to overcome and how has finding the motivation helped you?
I want to collect a huge list of stories about how people motivate themselves. I will post them and feature them here at altNoise so we can all learn from one another. We all have our individual motivational strategies and maybe yours will help me.
Will you Contribute to the List and Help Those In Need of Motivation?
We all need your help. Don’t think that your story or strategies are too silly or inferior to post. I’m not looking for some grand motivational system that changes the world. I want to know what makes you wake up in the morning and ready to make an impact. How do you consciously choose to get things done?
My Sample Motivational Contribution
There was a point in time that I was an avid excellent walker and horrible runner. I tried to become a decent runner but it just didn’t work. Some say I walk like a penguin so you can imagine what a penguin looks like when they run. Anyway, I have recently gotten out of the habit. I have plenty of excuses which none are true, but I knew I needed to get back on the habit.
But I just couldn’t get started.
One day recently, I literally sat on my couch looking out the door thinking, “Do I really want to do this? I am going to look like an idiot and its nearly 100 degrees outside. I think I am going to go strum my guitar.” I continued to sit there and watch outside. I knew that I needed to walk, but I couldn’t get motivated.
After 45 minutes of staring, I said outloud, “Stephen, quit being wimp. Just go walk outside. Walk to the road and if you want to continue then walk some more.”
So once I acknowledged my grandmother giving me strange looks for mumbling to myself, I stepped outside. I walked down to the road and continued. I kept walking for close to 2 1/2 hours. I would’ve walked some more, but it was getting dark and I was scared of the raccoons, opossums, and squirrels in the bushes next to me so I darted a 1 mile sprint to home.
It was exhilarating.
Focus on the First Step Not the Entire Project.
So my motivating contribution is to focus on taking one small step. Don’t focus on the entire project or everything that you must get done. This becomes overwhelming. All you need to do is take 1 step, write 1 word, put your feet on the ground, grab 1 piece of fruit. You can choose to continue after that initial movement.
You have a lifetime to take over the world. Today all you need to do is open the door.
How to Contribute Your Motivating Stories and Strategies
You don’t need to sign up or do anything special to contribute. All you need to do is skip to the comments section below and take 2 minutes to post your contribution. You can write a single sentence or 15 paragraphs (please be courteous. I’m the only one allowed to be obnoxiously long-winded around here). Thats it. Just share your story.
What will you win?
My friendship.
Help Us and Be Known as Someone Who Makes an Impact
Seriously, this project is for fun and a way to help out all of our friends. We need your contribution so we can make a huge list of motivational strategies together. Its an amazing chance for us all to work together and accomplish something really great. You have an amazing story which will make our list incomplete without it. Will you please share it with us?
Once all of the stories are collected, I plan to gather them and make huge post next week featuring all of them. I will list them all out so that you can print it and share it with anyone you know who needs a boost of motivation. Beside your contribution, I will list your name as someone that is positively making an impact on our lives.
* If you are a blogger or twitter user, I will link and post your blog/twitter account next to your contribution.
Remember ALL of Your Contributions are Welcome and Helps
Hello! My name is Stephen Miracle. I am the founder of altNoise. I have worked in ministry for the last decade. Please enjoy and freely share these articles created with love.
I recently lost 45 pounds after gaining it slowly after 5 years of laziness. I didn’t realize how big I was until I saw pictures of myself and I didn’t think I knew who I was looking at anymore.
I wanted to lose weight but I kept failing. I almost gave up when someone gave me the suggestion to put a picture of my overweight self on my wall and refrigerator so that it would motivate me. I did this but it depressed me and I ended up gaining more weight.
I did think it was a good idea to post a picture so I replaced it with one of 10 years ago when I was at the beach and happy. This is what I wanted to return to so I kept looking at it and it positively motivated to lose the weight.
Now I am 10 lbs lighter than I was at in the that picture
I personally create rewards whenever I need to get motivated to start a goal.
For example, I recently started a goal to wake up earlier. I’ve always had a hard time waking up. I’ll even sleep until noon if left to myself. I wanted to stop this so I started setting my alarm for 6am, but of course I’d hit the snooze and go back to sleep. So I decided to do what I usually do and create a reward for getting up early. It was something that I could only do if I did get up that early. I have a lake behind my house so I said I’ll get up and go see the sunrise every morning and that has been a tremendous help to jumpstart my day.