How to Build Self Motivation

Fear and reward are two most commonly used methods to build motivation in someone. But, these methods are temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. Motivation actually is the enthusiasm of doing something. It refers to inner feeling, strong desires, and expectation about something. Self motivation is a combination of will power, goals and ability to continue attaining the highest level of your success.

You need to keep yourself really focused on your objectives to maintain the level of your self motivation. Here are techniques you can adopt to start acquiring higher motivational level and achieve greater success.

1. Writing Your Plan

Success does not come easy without any proper plan. Failing to plan is actually planning to fail. Therefore, you must give a greater emphasis on having well prepared plan to achieve your goals. You simply need to have your plan written on a piece of paper. Having your plan clearly written gives you more psychological inner drive to work toward achieving your goals. Do not make it too easy or too hard for you to achieve. Set it just right to maintain your motivation level.

When writing down your goals, state very specific terms. For example, if you want to accumulate certain amount of money, state exactly how much you want. You must also set a specific date to fulfill your goals and specific rewards for achieving your goals. Writing is not enough if you do not follow up with some reading. You have to make a point to read your written plan at least twice a day. Once in the morning before you start your day; and one at night just before you go to bed. This simple routine will keep you stay motivated.

2. Visualizing Your Goals

You need to simply make your goals as visual as possible to maintain your motivation at the highest level possible. If your goal is to own an apartment, find pictures of your desired apartment keep them in front of your eyes. Visualizing your goals creates a positive impact on your mind and keeps your motivation surging.

Like the written plan, you have to make a point to see the visuals at least twice a day. The images you see of yourself achieving the goals you desire will instill strong impact in your mind, which will control your actions to maintain your level of motivation.

3. Controlling Your Feeling

You need to control what you feel. Your feeling will reflect your mental attitude and moods. If you feel upset and depressed, you will feel as if everything crashes on you. This feeling reflects on your physical self. You will lose concentration and everything you do will be full of mistakes. You have to learn to start controlling your feeling.

Your mental and physical attitudes work closely. Hence, to stay motivated, learn to develop cheerful and confident characters by simply walking with your face up and smile on it. You will realize that your confidence and self motivation developing. It is probably kind of hard to maintain the action, but with time, once it naturally becomes your way of life, you are able to motivate yourself even during difficult times.

The simplest way will be to start your day with a smile. No doubt this can be fake at times due to things that happen around you, but you have got to master this simple task to ensure that things around you will be pleasant and enjoyable for the rest of the day. You can feel the enthusiasm and energy level soaring. You will be able to stay motivated and spread positive energy around you.

4. Giving Your Effort A Reward

You need to give yourself a reward for what you have achieved. This one simply acts as an appreciation to yourself in achieving your goals. You have to credit yourself for what you have gone through, your determination and your hard work in ensuring your success.

Earlier I said reward is a temporary method to motivate someone. In this case, a reward is not what keeps you motivated. It is just an element to add flavor to your self motivation exercise. You may want to think of a simple reward that sounds reasonable with what you have achieved. Do not get over excited about this. Meaning, the reward has to be at par with your level of achievement.

Public Speaking

Speaking in public is often as the number one fear of adults.

Self-confidence is the basic foundation towards public speaking. But how can you look and feel confident when faced with the challenge of giving a presentation or speech to a large number of people?

People get a perception about how competent you are by how you present yourself when you stand and speak in front of public. A person who is confident in front of a group gives off an air of competence, whereas a person who fumbles might leave a negative impression in the audience.

No one is born as an excellent public speaker. Most of the famous speakers have gone through the same experience what you have when doing first speech. What made them successful is their effort in preparing and practising.

If you deliver a good speech, you become lovable to audience. And, to be capable you have to learn the skill of doing it and master it. When you feel that you are Lovable and Capable, your self esteem will rise and become confident. Your feelings and confidence are connected. If you feel confident it will show and the reaction you get from your audience will be a positive boost to your self esteem which will spur you on to success.

Preparation is most important in public speaking. It means getting all information such as, who is your audience and what is you are going to talk about, where and how long your speech going to be, what message your audience must take away from you and your Key points what your audience should remember at end of your speech.

Story telling is an excellent tool in public speaking. Stories build rapport with your audience and gain credibility. Audience will remember your stories longer than your key points of your speech. You must be able to connect your key points to the story and deliver it. Your audience will love your stories and remember your key points.

Tell your personnel experiences and avoid white lies. Be prepared to inject relevant story at appropriate part of your speech. Let your audience see you and your enthusiasm, and you will have a great speaking performance.