How do you keep yourself motivated?

I find the best solution is to remove yourself from what you normally do. Escaping to exercise, meet up with someone, or do something creative are my outlets. I have recently taken to meditation and highly recommend it. All of these outlets give you a sense of grounding and have a recharging effect. When complete, I find myself ready to press forward.

I've been doing the thing where I have 1 main goal for each day. Makes things more manageable. And often I find that one goal turns into three goals, and they all get accomplished. I also am into reminding myself what I'm grateful for every morning. Even just one thing.

I face this issue a lot. I still have no solution that works for me. I guess maintaining momentum helps here.

Looking at stripe dashboard keeps me motivated.

I allow myself some rest - tell myself that I'll do absolutely nothing work-related today so that I have energy tomorrow. Sometimes the other way round - I'll work hard right now and will get the results needed so that I can read something not work-related in the evening. I recharge during the weekends and when I am active physically. So when I know there's yoga, dance class of vocal class I'll have to miss if I don't do something, it helps me get things done.

Motivation is tough! I recently did a "metacognitive reset" to keep my motivation high and my sense of stress low. My reset took three steps: 1) making an "opposite of gratitude" list of things that slowed me down and caused frustration 2) drawing "lines in the sand" to keep myself away from those things and 3) creating cognitive clutter by surrounding myself with things that spark inspiration, from books to my violin! I wrote about my experience on Medium (https://medium.com/@akhilasatish...) in more detail if it's helpful!

What I do to motivate myself every day? every day when I wake up, I will devote around 30 minutes to think about my goals. I will start thinking about who will be I and where I will be if I achieved my goals. I will compare myself to some real-world personalities which I can be if I achieved my goals. This fuels me every day. It really worked for me but I dont know if it will work for you. Excuse for my bad english.

Being with my family recharges me

Write down my goals on paper and focus on them.📃🎯 Before you sleep, visualize yourself achieving my goals.😴🌌 Start your day by doing the thing that is most important to me.👩🏻‍💻 Listen to motivational stories on Ted talks and other popular shows.🧑🏻‍💼🎼

If you are asking for motivation for just one thing continuous, I feel I dont have it. I usually take a break and again feel like coming back to that one thing I was working on. So say I am writing an article, I will finish the first draft and then park it for a day or so and then comeback with new fresh perspective to work on. Same goes for my design, and product work. So I will say I am motivated but when I take break from it :-)

Sometimes it’s really hard to stay organized and motivated…But I try to imagine what the finish will be in case I do everything in my power. There are some tips you need to pay attention before starting and in progress: - have a reason for every movement; - reward yourself for a job well done; - make retrospectives at what you’ve already done; - start afresh each time; - set deadlines; - think positive. If talking about working from home tips, I strongly advise to use time management apps (TMetric is the best as for me - https://www.capterra.com/p/14862...), put off all distractive things like smartphone, food and I advise you to work in a room alone.

I strongly control my productivity level. To track activity and time I prefer TMetric. Sometimes it’s really hard to stay organized and motivated…But I try to imagine what the finish will be in case I do everything in my power. There are some tips you need to pay attention before starting and in progress: - have a reason for every movement; - reward yourself for a job well done; - make retrospectives at what you’ve already done; - start afresh each time; - set deadlines; - think positive.

Proper nutrition is the key to keep our brain chemistry works well, especially the dopamine system related to our motivation. 33 mg per day of Phenylalanine + Tyrosine amino acids should be consumed according to the US Institute of Medicine. These amino acids are precursors for dopamine synthesis in our bodies. Try to consume food rich in these two amino acids (cheese, soybeans, beef, etc). Proper sleep cycles, physical activity, etc may help too :)

As a bootstrapped founder, I look at my dwindling bank account as motivation. I also look at my family and remember that I'm doing this for them. For some reason, negativity is a great motivator for me personally.

I have done a lot of research on this via my passion project www.magic-middle.com where I interview CEO's and sports coaches. There are many right answers, but my favorite is managing MOMENTUM. It goes up and down but there is always a little nugget of progress, you just need to call attention to it. For example, today we hit a snag with a key part of our product, but that also brought some clarity to the root cause of the issue we had been seeing for a week now. It was frustrating and felt like progress was not being made. With the team all on a video call, I brought a calming attitude and focused on re-iterating what I was hearing to make sense of a complex situation. Then I found another aspect of our company that made huge progress right at this same time. That was not only motivating, it brought energy and momentum to the frustrating thing we were working on.

Just get feedback from the people you are doing your work for. Take their smile, take the shared passion, and listen. Take it as compliment that they share, work, critic your ideas. That is where I get my motivation from, every day. And believe me, I already got a lot of days behind me :-) but more to come. It is not the understanding that shapes us; it is experience. Go for it!

I usually listen to motivational playlists on Spotify when I'm down

As for me, the key was to understand that being not on top of your productivity is okay. Let yourself be lazy is an important part of being productive. I just allow myself a day of easy ongoing zen work and it usually energizes me enough to start complicated tasks the next day. Of course, loving what you do is massively important, but that's a given.

Coffee/tea, music, craic (banter), exercise/stretching - typically in that order.