How Do You Guard Your Motivation To Succeed?

I think If you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it--doesn't matter if you "share" it with other people.

To be honest, if you're so passionate (and perhaps obsessed) about something, I don't think motivation is necessary. There is a level where you do things subconsciously without actively making the decision to do it.
If you constantly need to motivate yourself to do something (i.e continuously force yourself to do it) then it's probably something you shouldn't do (and get someone else to).

But then again, this perception is rather relative. My point is that if you absolutely love doing something, then you don't really need motivation since you'll end up doing it anyway.
When you force or push yourself to do something, you are going against your flow and conflicting within yourself.

Just an opinion anyway. What do you guys think?

OK, so you're looking for motivation techniques, huh?

This one has worked for me for over 20 years in my fitness life so I can safely say IT WORKS!

Not a lot of folks like to work out every time, and I'm no exception. So, how do I motivate myself to work out?

If something is worth doing, DO IT POORLY.

In other words, going in the gym anticipating a hard workout is very scary to me. And, that is enough to convince myself to skip my workout for another day when I'm psyched up.

No, no, no. That is NOT how you remain consistent with something.

I tell myself since I'm tired today, I am only going to do light weights and not push myself 'till failure. Now, it is easy to go to the gym knowing that it's going to be a "piece of cake" and at least I can say I did something today.

Funny thing is, 99% of the time I get a GREAT workout in. This is b/c I told myself I can do an easy workout today, but that get's me to the point where I say, "darn, I'm almost "there," I might as well go all the way.

You can apply this to Internet Marketing or anything in your life b/c small changes are easy to deal with, big ones triggers resistance.

I have more of my favorite motivation techniques on this blog if you're interested:
Influence Yourself To Get What You Want

-Charles

Motivation can be compared to becoming number one it may not take a lot of effort remaining number one takes more effort. in the same way retaining you motivation takes effort.

It all depends on what is holding me back.

If it is just an unpleasant task I'm are avoiding, I put a time limit on how long I will do it. I can do almost anything if I have to do it for only 10 minutes.

If others start to tell me it won't work, I visualize the result I'm working toward with a heavy emphasis on how it feels to succeed.

I just wrote a two page opinionated report on this topic. I wonder if I should market it or not?

I try to distance myself from negative people. For some people it seems like a full-time
job to be negative, whine about everything, never do anything to improve their position
and spread negativity all around them.

For those that I come in contact with and am exposed to their negativity, I just forgive
them and move on, cause they don't know any better.

Always keep your dream or dreams in front of you. When the worst things happen to you, this will keep you going and never giving up.

I'm a big fan of tools from Access Consciousness (founded by Gary Douglas). The theme is "All of Life Comes to Me With Joy, Ease and Glory".

Anytime I feel my motivation slipping I begin to ask questions like "What else is possible here?" or "What would it take for me to be empowered with more motivation than I could ever imagine?"

It works...suddenly I'll get the inspiration to take a particular action.

And I believe motivation comes from within - at least true motivation.

That inner-drive is really passion, where we act upon inspiration.

Motivation sounds very short-lived - an external that lasts long as the good feeling. What happens when you are faced with challenges externally? Your motivation goes down.

That's why, having a long-term passion from within is the key.

Motivation is always next to inspiration. Just keep in mind all the things that could inspires you.

I agree with Michaelangelo,

If you look at it logically, it makes a lot of sense - Do you need motivation to watch your favourite TV show or to play Basketball or to watch a movie?

I think to look into motivation, you would need to not have the enthusiasm to want to do the task in the first place and that what you're really doing is looking for a remedy to cure it.

The best cure in this case is to simply find something 'you want to do'.

Maybe it isn't IM you're really passionate about. That may be a possibility. I know a lot of people come into this looking to make some money and an easy way out, but is it really what you want?

I would advise to do the following -

Instead of looking at IM as a whole. Look at what you're passionate about and use what you've learned to build a business around that. The beautiful thing about this is you'll often find marketing it will be something you'll end up doing naturally anyway as a passionate person will want to spread his/her message and engage in the community.

Something to think about

I stay positive in every thing i do and perseverance too.