We’ve all been there at some point.  Everything is going smoothly, then all of a sudden something blindsides you and knocks your motivation.  It might be something thats been looming and creeping in for a while, or it might be a total surprise.  Either way you owe it to yourself to “snap out of it”, “get over it”, or “give your head a wobble”.  Your friends have probably told you this before, maybe countless times.  Each time they say it, it probably grates on you a little more each time.  But deep down you KNOW they’re right, but you need more than what they’re saying.  You need someone to guide you towards motivation, to show you HOW to get motivated again.

It’s a matter of having the courage and the determination to know that you can achieve.  You’ve achieved things before now, regardless of how you feel right now – have a quick think back to things you’ve enjoyed in the past, and think back to how those opportunities started.  YOU did something to achieve it… so let’s do it again!

If you can imagine your motivation as a snowball starting at the top of a mountain, rolling down and picking up more and more snow in the process.  This snow is your motivation and positive experience, soaking up into the snowball and growing in mass.  Okay, you’ll gather bits of grit and pebbles in the process (the ‘negative’ stuff), but the sheer volume of snow that you’re accumulating has the capacity to FAR outweigh the bad stuff.

So STACK UP the good memories and references from the past, and the present, and discard the negative elements.  You know that the negative stuff only serves to bring you down, so why do you let them in?  You know the positives uplift you, so why are you shutting them out?  It’s time for a shift, time to let yourself embrace the positives and ban the negatives.

I’m not saying you need to be happy 100% of the time, but let yourself embrace good stuff, and let the negatives slide away from you.  Our bodies operate on a roughly monthly cycle (biorhythms), where our intelligence, emotions, and physical capacities fluctuate on a wave of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ energy, so naturally and by design we go through patterns of good days and bad days.  It’s up to you to identify these and better understand why out of the blue you might be ‘feeling rubbish’.  If you can make the most of your good days, you can use this stockpile of good feeling to dampen the effects of the other days.

If you’re feeling negative, the worst thing you can do is to try to push through the barrier and into positivity.  All you will serve to do is associate your negativity with your goals and will begin to resent your goals as this association develops.  You should stop, relax, meditate, do some yoga, do a relaxation exercise, go for a walk or a run.  Do anything that occupies you without focussing on your goals.

I will soon be introducing another technique to this website for you, but for now, try to use the Lockbox Technique to anchor those positive emotions, and call upon them when you need a little boost.