Pump up your Passion

One way to get yourself to take action is to fire up your passion, excitement and desire for your goal.  Being passionate is enough motivation in most cases to inspire you to action.

Get in touch with your passion

Think about your goal and all that you will gain from achieving it.  Feel what it will feel like when you have achieved it. 

If you aren’t already passionate about your goal, maybe you need to reconsider the goal.  Is it something you really want or do you want it because you feel it is something you are supposed to want?  Are you being pushed by others toward this goal?  Did you chose the goal because you thought it was all you could hope to achieve?  Maybe you need to pick a more exciting goal.

How do you fire up your passion?

Maybe you need to motivate yourself to take a step toward your goal.  You have passion for the goal, but some steps on the way are pretty mundane.  For instance, you need to pass a class to graduate.  Graduation is an important step toward your goal, but the class you need is not interesting to you.

If that is the case, get passionate instead about the benefit that reaching the goal will give you.  Get excited about the financial benefit of the job or the furtherance of your career.  Think beyond the goal to the happiness you will experience after you have reached it. Each achievement is a stepping stone to a better life.  Imagine how your situation will improve and how much closer you are to your ultimate goal.  It only gets easier as you move through each step along your journey.  With each achievement, no matter how small, you gain the experience of success.  You gain confidence that you can do the same or take on an even bigger challenge the next time.  Taking action gets easier each time you do it.

Action Item: Watch a motivational video.  Then take action on something you have been putting off.