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Have you ever thought how would it have been if you did not let pass an opportunity just because you’re not in the mood for it? Just imagine how fun it would have been if you went to an outing with your friends when they asked you. But you refused because you didn’t feel like going. If you just wait for the time when you will get in the mood to do things, well, you might just wait for a lifetime.

So when this happens again, all you have to do is to take action. Once you have taken action, motivation can follow. Just think of what made you do it? None. So you were motivated when you already took the action. When your family is going out for a piano concert and you didn’t feel like going. But you still decided to go. When you were at the concert, you realized it was enjoying especially that you are with your family. That was the time that you got motivated to continue watching the concert. So there, you just have to do it. That could be your first motivation, to “just do it.”

If you procrastinate most of the time, this might indicate something already.  It can be of a more serious physical or psychological matter that needs to be treated.  Depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, illnesses related to memory loss are just some of the possible dysfunction that causes one to procrastinate.

This may not be observed by the person procrastinating but by the people around him.  This information may help us realize on the reason of our procrastination.   Of course, procrastinating is not generally healthy.  So, once we feel that we are procrastinating, try to dig on the reason why we actually do that.  This way, we might motivate ourselves not to procrastinate.

How do you set your goal? You have to keep it SMART!

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely

Specific- a goal which is specific has more probability to be achieved than a general one. If your goal is to lose weight, make it more specific by saying that your goal is to lose weight by going to the gym daily. By having this goal, you’ll have a fixed idea in your mind on what to do to accomplish it.

Measurable- have a goal that is measurable. You’ll stay in track if you can measure the progress of your goal. So if your goal is to lose weight by going to the gym daily, add to your goal reducing 10 pounds of your weight.

Attainable- make sure that your goal is attainable. Considering your schedule and other things, make sure if you can attain it. If you aim losing 20 pounds in just a week, of course it isn’t attainable.

Realistic- see to it that your goal is realistic or sensible. A goal of working out a day would be more realistic if you set it to do sit ups everyday, or jog every morning.

Timely- Set a time frame for your goal. Achieving 10 pounds reduction in your weight in two weeks time could be possible. It makes you work more for your goal. With the time frame, it will keep you motivated to work with your goal and not to procrastinate.

In a company, people are considered as one team fighting for one goal: for the betterment of the company. Every individual working in the company is part of the team, from the top to the bottom. It is important that these individuals are highly-motivated with their work in the company to achieve their goal. Each of them has their own task which were categorized for the fulfillment of the goal. Once an individual is highly-motivated, he gives the most to the company and get the most from his work.

Otherwise, the whole team will get affected. If a marketing manager lacks motivation, he will not be that enthusiastic to do his job. Thus, the other department of the company will get affected if his reports are delayed, or if he has done a mistake. But if he is highly-motivated, he needs not to be told to finish on time and the quality of his job as well. He himself will do it wholeheartedly.

It is important that a company focuses on its team members and make sure that they are highly-motivated.

We usually feel like procrastinating when we hate a job. But it feels bad when we don’t want to do it, and yet, we are obliged to finish it a certain period of time. So tendency is we get anxious but do nothing about it. We will just act upon it when the deadline comes, which may result to a total disaster.

So, how can we do the jobs we hate and finish it just in time or before the deadline?

• Start from the easiest part. While you are conditioning yourself to get started with the task, you do the one that you think is the easiest to do. This way, you are gradually doing the job.
• Set a schedule. You can set a schedule on when and how long you will do the job each day. You will be able to prepare yourself that you will do it at a certain time. But be sure to follow your schedule.
• Divide the task. In the schedule that you have made, set the amount of job you have to finish.  If you cannot finish it with the time you set, go overtime if you feel like continuing it.  If not, you can stop and add some more time on the next time you’re going to do it.
• Set a deadline for yourself.  Set a deadline which is ahead of the original one.  This will help you give more time for corrections.
• Self-discipline.  It is very important that you have self-discipline to avoid procrastination.  This is also a good way to improve your self-discipline.
• Motivation.  Keep yourself motivated in doing the job.  By doing it, just think that it will lessen your burden.  Be motivated that by the time you finish your job, you’ll be free from it.

There are still many ways on how to fight procrastination.  But it is important that you stay motivated and self-disciplined to be able to do your jobs.

People say that each one of us must have goals in life.  But does everyone has set their goals?  Some people do not know, some may have set them but didn’t achieve it, while some are afraid of failures.

First step to achieving your goal is to set them.   But is it the real objective?  The real objective is to achieve your goals.  The thing that one must not miss out is Belief.  Believing that we can achieve our goals, from the time that you have set it or even before that, will guarantee you that you can achieve it.  There may have lots of steps on how you can achieve your goal, but believing should be the first thing you must do.  You can then follow it up with the next step of your choice towards your goal.  With belief, you will take action to achieve your goal.  No matter how big or small your goal is, the most important thing is to believe.

The word procrastination usually has a negative impact on people.  But in reality, procrastination can be bad, but it can be good also.  People may procrastinate by doing nothing, doing things less important, or doing more important things.

Good procrastination is when you give up doing less important things to do real work. There are individuals who cannot really do errands when doing real work.  You may annoy people who asked you to do the errand, but I think you must just let them.  This is like setting things in priority.

Real work, to be fully done, needs to occupy much of your time and catch your mood. Once youget inspired to do it real good, you do not want to be interrupted, and you really concentrate in doing it even if it takes a lot of your time.  You actually give up doing simple things which will just pass away if you don’t do it now.  While the things you need to do immediately are those that gets worse if you put them off like, paying bills, filing tax returns, and even lawn mowing.

It is actually a matter of time management.  There are important things you can do while doing the less important ones.  You prepare the tables while still cooking, check your emails while eating, and stuffs like that.  You just need to value your time to be able to do this.

Know the things that motivates you. By doing so, you’ll know when to use it. Here are the different factors that motivates a person:
Goal- With the desire to achieve a goal, an individual wishes to achieve objectives to attain it. To accomplish its goal is important for its own sake and not because of the things that come with it. More often, it is an individual’s burning desire towards a goal that keeps him motivated.

Compliment- a person gets motivated when being complimented for things that he has done or for his positive attitude. It keeps him inspired to continue the good deeds that he has done.

Competence- a person is well motivated to seek for job mastery and takes pride with his accomplishments. He gets better by learning from experience.

Power- having the drive to influence people and change situations keeps a person motivated. They are willing to take risks to create an impact.

Positive Thinking- it is a person’s attitude that sometimes keeps him motivated. They are those who think positive in their outlook in life. The way they feel about the future and how they react to things that happened. It is their self-confidence that motivates them to continue their struggle towards their goal.

Incentives- If some people are motivated with their desire to achieve their goal, some are motivated to win a goal for the reward that they may receive upon achieving it.

Fear- a person can be motivated because of fear. He may fear his superior, or fear for the punishment or consequence that he may get if he wouldn’t get his job done properly.

Each factor of motivation varies from different situations. Competence for example is more likely to happen in job situations. While an achievement motivation is more for a personal goal. So, what keeps you motivated?

Here is a simple technique for setting your personal goals. Start from your lifetime goal, then work it through a series of lower level plans to achieve your ultimate goal in a step-by-step manner.
First in setting your personal goal is to consider what you want to achieve in your life. This will give you the overall perspective that will help you through with your decision making in life.

You can categorize your goals to keep you in tract with it. It will help you break your ultimate goals into those categories to be more organized with it.

Once you have decided your goals in the categories, assign a priority to them. Then review it and re-prioritize until you are satisfied with it. This will guide you through with your ultimate goals. Make sure that you set your own personal goals and not what your parents, or other people want you to achieve.

Goal setting is a powerful process for personal planning. It gives you direction in life. It helps you organize your time and your resources to be able to maximize the use of it to achieve your goals.

Goal setting helps you choose your way in life. Knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you will be able to analyze your strengths and weaknesses in achieving that goal. By doing so, you’ll know where to concentrate your effort and what things that could make you fail. Also, you’ll be able to work out with your weaknesses.

Having a properly planned goals can be more motivating. Picturing clearly yourself having achieved that goal is inspiring and more encouraging to do everything to achieve it. Plus, it builds your self-confidence with the recognition of your abilities and that you’ll be able to achieve your goals.