How to overcome our lack of motivation

When people start unwilling to carry out their goals and stop learning or give up some good habits, they often say the same reason: "I lack motivation." ”

In the mouth of many people often hang "lack of motivation", but they do not understand what is motivation. Because they think the power is a pie, falling from the sky, and then lucky to hit their heads, so immediately can change their inefficient state. But since we all know that this is wrong, then why when we realize that we do not have the power, we are still in the plant to keep the momentum, hope that the momentum will suddenly hit you without reason?

We need to understand what power is.

Motivation is the force that makes us do things. In physics, the power is to make the mechanical work of various forces, if you want to make the machine do, that will be external to the mechanical force. But we are not the same people, we do not only the force of the outside world, but also from their own.

Outside of our force, like material rewards, spiritual feedback and so on. But what is the force from itself? Why do we find that although there are so many outside work for me, I still feel that I do not give force?

Cavity felt that there were three kinds of force: the guiding power of interest, the resistance to the reaction of things and the impetus to start immediately. I hope that by mastering these three kinds of forces can help you solve the problem of their own lack of motivation.

The guiding power of interest

We know that mechanical work is equal to the mechanical movement of the distance in the direction of force. Similarly, doing work in life, what we do best is in line with our own interests. The guiding power of interest brings to you a sense of mission and purpose in execution. As Jobs said, "The only way to accomplish something is to love your career." "When you wake up in the morning thinking that you are doing what you love and pursue, you will be motivated!"

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Resist the reaction of things

The force of oneself can do the work of the positive direction, naturally also can do the work in the opposite direction. This is the reaction to resisting things.

Sometimes it's not hard to see that even if we do what we love to do, we suddenly become interested in nothing at all. In the article "Do not blame your laziness on the lack of motivation," said that interest and enthusiasm like the waves, the ups and downs. When the tide, you will do things smoothly, at this time the guiding force of interest plays a large part of the role. And ebb, you feel discouraged, do not want to do things, at this time is to resist the reaction of things play a major role.

When the reaction will exist, it is sometimes suppressed and sometimes revealed. When the reaction force is dominant, it will cause a psychological characteristic of ourselves-the bidirectional influence of emotion. It is this kind of emotion that makes it difficult for us to suppress the reaction and return to the state of full power.

The two-way effect of emotion, in simple terms, when you are happy, you will laugh, the corresponding, you often laugh, your mood will be cheerful. Similarly, when you feel like you don't want to work, you're less likely to work. When you are in a lazy life for a long time, you will be "lazy" to change your lazy habits, and of course the natural failure.

Since the reaction is beyond the guiding power of interest, how can we change from this state of lack of motivation? One is to strengthen your interest in guiding force, the second is to use the external help of the thrust, three is the following: the impetus to start immediately.

The impetus to start immediately

Imagine a pendulum, you push it, it will continue to swing until the air drag and so consumed its energy. So the state of lack of power is like the pendulum stop turning, all you have to do is give it a force--the impetus to start immediately. If you are doing something that matches your goals and interests, you only need to push it once in a while and your pendulum will swing continuously. If you're doing something that you don't like or want to do, you often push it down and you don't fall on it.

Start immediately, or be proactive, and be responsible for your own attitude: individual behavior depends on itself, not the external environment. The ink has also published many articles on this kind of article, hope to read can give us some inspiration.

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Lack of motivation is the process of trimming

The three forces in front of me are my own understanding of personal dynamics. Lack of motivation is not a bad thing to see, everyone will have met. Sometimes you have to fight pursuit to push yourself back to the state, and sometimes you have to slow down, adjust the state, review, take a break. Therefore, lack of motivation is also a process of trimming and reconciliation, after all, you can not expect yourself to continue to study or work persistently. The so-called exertion, sometimes you just tired rather than lack of motivation.