Breaking the Cycle: How to Stay Committed When Motivation Fades
you find yourself giving-up?
Too many times, very often I have been on this table, and I am sure as hell that you also have been on this table in one time of your life, and why is it so? Probably, this is how life is. We make goals, we make plans, we tell ourselves that we would do this but yet we forget our commitments, we forget our dedications and we give up along the way.
This applies to me when I was thinking of all the online courses that I have completed half way, which I know that I would have completed in less than 3 months if only I chose to be dedicated and consistent.
I had some nostalgia feeling when I was going through my videos in my phone and I saw a portfolio website that I built for myself while I was still learning frontend in 2021. The portfolio website was beautiful, and I asked myself, If I want to build this website again this moment, can I? The obvious answer is NO. I had stopped frontend development 3 years ago, but yeah, I still remember quite some things about it. Or maybe yes, I could, but with some dedicated time over some crash course to remember things I may have forgotten.
The point here is not about my learning of frontend per se but a reminder that consistency is difficult, remaining committed to something is difficult, and along the way you will lose focus. You will lose sight of the end goal, of why you started it in the first place, and that is the point you go off the rails; you will forget the prize, and the reason for committing to that goal would never be attained.
What is the way out?
One way that I know to staying committed to a goal is to "GO ALL IN" and give yourself no OPTIONS. There will be times when you will feel tired but the truth is, when you start thinking of option B, most likely you tend to go off the rail. You tend to lose focus and forget why you committed at the first instance.
The uncomfortable part of it is that the circle continues. If you don't learn to stay committed to a goal without thinking of a second option, you will keep jumping from one incomplete goal to another. Why? Because you always think of another option along the line.
The truth is, the excitement of starting a goal does not always remain the same along the journey; that is why we fall off. We forget our commitments and choose to go for another option. The same reason why people forget their new year resolutions.
Making New Year resolutions can be so exciting—the planning and the feeling. But let me tell you this: the feeling will wear off, and if you don't remember your commitment to why you made the goal, you will fall off and start the circle again.
This is one very interesting way to look at it. I have a shit load of things I need to get through by November ending and I'm already moving to other options at the first thought of the next thing being more complicated. Think I'm going to apply this and see how it goes.
Yeah that is another way to look at it. And when you get to the other options, you will always still have options. That options will continue being the problem in our lives.
I relate to this. I also start many things with great enthusiasm but then lose interest. I hope to finish these. And I pray to god that all of us reach where we want to reach.
Yeah all of us are on this table. And we have a huge part to play in this as well too.
I believe that this post is meant for me. Even if hive I have somehow become discouraged and sometimes feel reluctant to make a post. Even when I know the implications for me not to make a post per day I still have my reasons for not doing it.
Just weeks back when I signed out of school I promised myself that I was going to work on my Facebook page and also YouTube channel. I never kept to my words when I started been discouraged.
I pray that God help me wake up again.
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Amen God will help you, but it also begins with yourself.
Make plans, and make sure you begin with them immediately. Make sure they are something you do easily do and does not stress you out. And try to be consistent with it.
I think our real trouble is procrastination and with time we start to lose our motivation. If we can avoid procrastination, most of our plan will be successful. Fortunately, I remain serious from starting to end if I determined to do something. I am robot in such a case and it's good for me.
Procrastination is part of it but not the main issue in it. The issue itself is us. I say Procrastination does not really exist what just exist is that, the task is not really important to us that is why we choose not to do it.
If our life was on the line, aren't we not going to put the effort? It will become very important because we don't want to lose our lives.
Thissss
Especially when there are multiple things at hand..it becomes hard to keep track.
I tend to work on too many things at once and it affects my consistence in making sure I see them through.
I can relate... that is why it is said that jack of all trade is master of none. It is always difficult to master something when you don't put focus on it.