Self-motivation would cost a lot of energy, so normally it’s not easy to achieve, and sometimes, the named self-motivation is just an extro-motivation you haven’t noticed the true origin
Self-motivation are easy to fail by several reasons: reckless passion, lack of energy, unclear goals, etc. It’s important to personal growth, but still quite regrettable for the finally giving up, and the mistrust of achieving it
Here is my methods and tools for maintain the self-motivation for a very long time with efficient time and energy consuming:
a. Notion. Just one click, notion can generate a very good and beautiful daily checklist, please check this video:
b. Put “one reflection” as one of the daily checklist, and at the very beginning, the definition of “one reflection” is:
- Think about a problem or worry in your life
- Give a “very simple solution” you can start tomorrow
- This “very simple solution” can be achieved tomorrow and behavior will be lasted for a while
- A good “simple solution” maybe needs hours to think, but worth to
After the practice of several months, I start to use the Steve Jobs question as the trigger of my “one reflection”: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?
c. A list of problems and worries. Problems are looking backward, worries are looking forward, both are crucial for a high quality of reflection, I normally would keep around 20 questions and review them one by one every day, always can have some new ideas and actions, and some of the problems and worries would be like:
- What is the biggest time blackhole? All my time today is well used?
- What is the biggest energy blackhole? All my energy today is well cost?
- Can’t go sleep on time
- Are you working on the most important things?
In this way, I was so self-motivated, and with very little energy cost, so I can maintain a good pace with a very long time, life would be slowly changed to the daily adjustable direction
