Why Motivation Doesn’t Work?

Have you been wondering why no matter what you do you are not feeling motivated

You looked online for tips to help you feel motivated, but nothing is working for you

Then you are at the right place

Continue reading and I will share why that happens

and simple things to do instead to never fall victim to your mood or dopamine

you’ll learn:

why motivation doesn’t work

why motivation isn’t enough

what to do instead of waiting for motivation

Why you don’t need motivation? Why motivation doesn’t work? why motivation isn’t enough?

Because it’s not reliable for the following reasons

1-if the anticipation combined with fear and basic instinct will take over and

stop the release of dopamine thus your motivation

and you can easily get it from other sources like social media where you won’t feel fear

2-furthermore, the brain in general tries to conserve energy,

so that’s why it’ll keep you in comfort while still giving you dopamine from “safe” sources

3-as perfectionists, we try to avoid feeling ashamed of not being enough, adequate, and competent.

that’s why looking for external solutions to an internal problem

will not lead you to feel motivated to do the work

It’s easy to blame and look for external things

instead of looking at the true cause of why you are not motivated

>>>> as result, you need to understand why you are not motivated, change the cause,

and strengthen your why behind doing something

then the dopamine will work in your favour

while accepting that it’s still will try to keep you comfortable

and get it from easy sources

where building a habit of

following through no matter what you feel is important

plus discipline

4-and one-way perfectionists screw themselves by being scattered,

they love starting new things and learning new things which are biologically understandable

as these activities increase dopamine

in this case you need to surpass the release of dopamine and learn to focus instead

and psychologically,

it prevents you from facing the fear of judgment, and

the risk of feeling shame when you keep doing one thing

as you’ll have to face challenges, failure..etc >>> so, it’s easy to start

and stop because you won’t face that

To get motivated you need to understand what ticks dopamine

and how to use it with your perfectionist mindset learn that in this article

what can you do instead of waiting for motivation

1-build the skill of” do it no matter how you feel”

Feeling motivated most often than not when it comes to the day to day

comes down to your habits

-Build habits that pro El you forward toward your goal no matter how you feel

-Who you are much powerful than anything else.

identity is powerful to prpbel action because we act in accordance to who we ate

2-what feeling motivated means to you

Is it feeling excited,energatic,eger..etc?

I think many of us think that way and have been led to think that

But in reality motivation is not always feel that way because

our brains rather stay comfortable than do something anythig

that’s why we feel la, and to do something we love doing

Instead, you can excite yourself if that is what you want by thinking

by the excited possibilities of the work you do

and use that to start then your brain will do its magic

by releasing more dopamine

3-deliberately use a thought that makes you feel motivated to work

Eg. I get to do this, I can’t wait to start this… any thoughts that make

you feel this way

take few minutes to think about it

after that, pay attention if it you can truly feel that feeling

when thinking that thought

4- accept that this feeling won’t be always there

no matter what else you do to get it instead rely on your skills from tip 1

Learn to do the work no matter what you feel, acknowledge your feeling,

feel it, and  move on to do the work /task

I share 5 more ways to help you feel motivated in this blog post

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If you want to never let motivation be the reason for your lack of action

then let’s work together.

I’ll help you work through the sabotage including procrastination,

overthinking and not feeling like doing it

and understand why you have not done something and

what can you do next time to never fall back on that

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