Fortunately, there are plenty of techniques and tips that will help you to become and stay motivated.

Unfortunately, you need to apply them more than one time. It’s not that you need to use a certain technique more than once to become motivated, but motivation tends to fade away quickly if you let it go. So you will need to motivate yourself regularly. Keep that in mind. That’s also the reason why it can be pretty useful to have some different techniques in your repertoire. Alternate. Combine. Don’t become bored by using the same technique over and over again.

To finally add some variety to your motivation creating process you may try out the following techniques:

• Think about your own moments of success: Remember past moments when you felt great. Moments when you succeeded. It doesn’t need to be any huge success, small achievements are sufficient. Try to create the feeling that you can succeed again.
• Read biographies of famous successful people: Read about famous actors, scientist, inventors, almost any successful person will do. Notice that in most cases, their success is nothing but the result of hard work. You can be equally successful if you can create the right attitude.
• Read about motivation: Motivational quotes, articles and even books about motivation are available in the internet. Learn new motivational techniques. Try to understand motivation. If you understand it you can handle it.
• Reward yourself. Why not just think up a little reward for staying motivated over a certain period of time? Rewards surely increase your desire to hold on which will lead to some extra motivation.
• Make it a habit. Don’t ever allow yourself to give up. If you manage to create the habit of keeping up, then guess what? Keeping up will become almost effortless in most situations. Every time you decide to hold out, your will gains power for future decisions. Motivation creates motivation.
• Think about life and death for some time. You should get a feeling for the limitedness of human life. Life is too short to give up. It doesn’t matter if you live to a great age or die in a car crash next week, your life span is very limited. You won’t survive life, so try to use the little time you got. Don’t waste it.

And there’s yet another great tip to become and stay motivated: Learn something about proper goal setting and goal achievement. You could do that by reading the according articles on this website for example:

• Successful Goal Setting Explained
• How to Reach Your Goals