If You Feel Hopeless & Think You Can't Go On - How To Keep Going To Achieve Your Goals
Channel: Practical Inspiration - Personal Growth & Success
Date: 2020-04-28

If you feel hopeless & think you can't go on with your goals, don't worry you aren't alone in your frustrations. In this video we'll look at how to keep going to achieve your goals and what to do when life gets hard. So go out and achieve your goals, practising these methods on how to keep going, and don't give up and have motivation!

So when life gets hard and if you feel hopeless or can't go on, practise goal setting to help you in achieving goals successfully.From here, you'll break away from negative thinking to achieving your goals.

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Below is a summary of the video:

1. Know Your Why
- The best motivator in life is being able to answer the simple question "why", as it's the meaning as to why we do what we do each and every day
- Understanding you why is fundamental when embarking on anything challenging in life, because if you don't know it, chances are that you will ultimately succumb to failure
- It's in the why that you find purpose, and meaning, behind the actions you take, the reason you push yourself towards your goal despite everything seemingly against you
- You can also flip the question too, as you can ask yourself why you should give up, where you'll often find that on answering the question, it's a much more painful road to give up than it is to keep on going when something is important to you

2. Make a Schedule
- Self discipline is vital towards achieving success and one of the best ways to be disciplined and focused when working on something is to schedule your time
- Try to plan out what you need to do, maybe writing a to do list of critical tasks that you need to do to make progress towards the goal, and then schedule it
- Often, this will be scheduling your day by the hour to complete individual tasks, as when you do this, you find that you are much more likely to keep working to take action than if you don't plan your day
- So plan your tasks, schedule your day and make sure most importantly, stick to it!

3. Exercise
- This one might not directly impact your progression towards a specific goal, but exercise can actually be highly beneficial towards maintaining a progressive mindset
- The reason is that the endorphins produced during exercise help to reduce stress and anxiety and boost your mood significantly, helping to build a positive mindset
- In addition to this, exercise helps you relax and therefore sleep better, again reducing the effects of stress and feeling more positive overall
- Most interesting is that a 2015 study found that aerobic exercise improves cognitive function, including your ability to learn and retain information

4. Find Help
- People refer to this in many ways today, as they describe it as finding a mentor or follow through with taking courses from experts
- The key is, if you're struggling with something and are feeling disheartened, then go out and look for help, whether it be someone who has already done it, or taking actions by finding resources to help you overcome the issue
- It's worth remembering, we have possibly the greatest resource of all time at our fingertips, so when you need answers, it's only a button push away
- You shouldn't struggle alone, as it's infinitely better to seek out support when you need it than to try and overcome all hurdles you face by yourself

5. Be Optimistic
- Ultimately when you work towards something, especially when it's out of the norm and isn't something many people do in their live, it's vital to have hope and optimism
- Almost every successful person, whether they be entrepreneurs, entertainers or another field altogether, have an optimistic outlook in life about what they can achieve
- ...and many who have spoken about their success say that when they were in the grind, it was their faith of succeeding eventually that carried them through, even if at the time they couldn't see it
- That's because if you give up, there's no hope to succeed, but if you keep on working, there's always a chance something might happen

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