How to stay motivated

People struggle with consistency and the same goes for habit, it is very difficult to stay consistent and what makes this difficult is motivation. Most people struggle to stay motivated for a long period and this is why benefiting from habit can be hard. Sometimes easy to create habits but they fail to be consistent. They don’t know how to manage their motivation and that’s why I don’t do it long enough to gain the benefit of the habit but the question is how can we stay motivated for a long period and how can we do the same thing over and over again without getting bored.

Most people get bored when they’ve been doing something over and over again, and this happens in every aspect of life. When we create a habit it gets to a certain stage when we get bored, sometimes this can be due to two things, whether we don’t have enough challenges in the habit to be consistent or all the challenges are just too much for us to handle and the harder we go into the habit the tougher it is for us to be consistent. These two scenarios are the major killer of habit and why people don’t get the benefits.  But how can we stay motivated without getting bored and also without getting tired the thing is we have to find a sweet spot.

The sweet spot

When you are playing a video game with someone that you are better off by the time you play for a few minutes you get tired because your win is guaranteed, when you are playing with someone better than you by the time you play a couple of games you get tired because there is no chance of winning for you and but when you are playing with someone with the same ability, you become motivated because there is a chance for you to win and there is also a chance for you to lose, each time you play whether you lose or win you still want to play more.

The same thing goes with us creating a habit, when we are starting a habit, we must make it as easy as possible, when a habit is established you must increase the challenge little by little, not too hard or too easy. When It gets too easy you become bored and when It gets too hard you find it difficult to be satisfied you might not be able to keep up and that’s why you have to find a sweet spot. You must find the right spot for you where it won’t be too easy and also be too difficult, you have to find the middle ground where everything is good. If you can find this ground, it will be easy for you to maintain a habit and stay motivated for a long period.

How to stay motivated

It is easy for anybody to get bored. Boredom is the greatest enemy in creating a habit and this happens when your habit becomes so easy and you don’t see anything to motivate you, when challenges are too much it will lead to failure and that's why we must find the middle ground and this is how we can stay motivated for a long period. The middle ground is where our challenges are not too hard and also not too easy. This is where humans experience the highest level of motivation.

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