What motivates you?
Understanding this aspect of your personality and behavior will help you stay focused, reduce procrastination and achieve more goals.
There are lots of great personality assessment tools available, like the DISC or MBTI or Platinum Rule. You can easily take these online or through trained assessors. This type of info can be invaluable for large life goals.
But all those aside, you probably know some of your motivators already. They could be money, recognition, growth, gratitude, acceptance, security or one of many others.
One of my motivators is numbers. A few years back when I chose not to smoke anymore, I charted 2 numbers – the money I was not spending on cigarettes as well as the number of days I was a non-smoker. I found that watching both sets of numbers go up was highly motivating, despite a really strong desire to smoke. It’s the same with exercise. If I walk 5,000 steps today, tomorrow it will be at least 5010.
Action – Motivation is not a complex issue yet we often go on long searches for something or someone to motivate us. Your real job is to know what motivates you and then leverage that knowledge into tangible, reliable support mechanisms.
What is one of your motivators? What type of goal would it be an excellent addition to? Can it help you achieve something you are currently struggling with?
Use what you know of yourself as a motivator!