A small advice to achieve success and maintain motivation

type0 (25)in #life • 7 years ago

Every time, when I was thinking about some goal, I tended to focus on the end result. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a famous person and, I was thinking only about how it has to be great to be someone known. Then I grew up and went to a high school, and still when I was doing something, when I was trying to let's say build a muscular body, I was concentrating on my end goal. I was so focused on my main aim whenever I was doing something, that as I couldn't see progress towards it, I was losing my motivation even when at the beginning it was very high.

I didn't think much about it, I just thought, well that's the way it is, someone achieves what he wants, and someone not, but at some point, it started bothering me, couldn't I do something to motivate me more, couldn't I I reach success?

Now I can say one thing. You still need a lot of hard work. I'm not going to give you an incredible tool to instantly accomplish something but what I can give you, is advice.

This piece of advice is simple, yet it took me a lot of time to understand it.

You have to cut your aim into small steps.
Easy right?

When you are attempting to reach something, for example, you want to run a marathon, you will try to achieve it as fast as you can, and if after a month you will not be able to run even a half of it you will lose your motivation.

Now imagine that you divided your aim of running in a marathon into small parts.
So, you start running, and your first step is to run 5 km (3 mi), and you achieve it after 2-3 weeks, so what's your next step? Probably 10 km (6 mi), so you train for next few weeks, and you achieve that.

I'm sure that you know where I'm going with this. Because of your smaller goals, you are able to maintain your motivation, thanks to achieving those small steps. At the same time, you are still moving toward your goal, which is running a marathon.

So in conclusion, create smaller steps from one big target, and it will be easier to achieve not only those smaller steps but this big one too

All of this may seem stupid, and simple but what can I say, just try it, if it won't work you are not going to lose anything, and if it works, then you can gain a lot.