How to motivate yourself How to motivate yourself The following motivational techniques inspired by Dave Ellis s manual, Becoming a Master Student will be helpful in staying on task and reaching important goals in life. Motivation can be directly related to the expected outcomes of an action. If the desirable outcome of an action is clear, it becomes easier to complete the task. Setting goals and breaking these down into small objectives is one way of improving motivation. When a person feels they are working toward a larger accomplishment, even unpleasant tasks become tolerable.
Fear is a great deterrent for completing necessary projects.
It is important to look into why you do not want to do a task. The initial response may be, I hate working on bicycles and I just do not want to do it. This is a secondary response emotion, though. The real emotion may be, I worked on a bike when I was a child and it was never the same. I am afraid that if I work on this bike the same thing will happen.