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Motivation and Habits: This Connection Leads to Success
How to Motivate Yourself to Achieve Your Goals
As an entrepreneur, freelancer, or small business owner, you already know that there are things that you’ll need to do because they need to be done. You’ll do them because you’re a professional; not because they bring any kind of enjoyment. However, this being said I will add that owning your own business can be the vehicle that moves you closer to the lifestyle you have always wanted to create and design. Motivation and habits will move you closer to your goals.
Even though you know all of this, there will still be times when you struggle to get motivated. Your head will tell you that you should do one thing, but your heart will stubbornly refuse to cooperate.
How can you motivate yourself when you feel like that?
Self-motivation is a complicated subject. There are many reasons why your motivation may wane. One of them is rooted in your expectations. For instance, what did you expect your results would be when you started? Were you just trying to earn a living or to become wealthy? Did you expect to reach your financial goals in a month, a year or five years?
Motivation can be lost when you fail to realize your expectations. And that’s really where you need to start because to re-motivate yourself, you…
