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How To Maintain Motivation Over Time

At the start of any project, we’re extremely motivated. We put in a lot of effort in a short space of time, and progress is rapid. The problem is that motivation quickly runs out and we abandon what we started so well. So how do you stay motivated? How do you maintain your motivation over time? Here are a few ideas to help you stay motivated!

Have an ambitious, exciting project

To maintain motivation over the long term, our goal must be sufficiently ambitious and, above all, sufficiently interesting and exciting. In fact, our level of motivation depends enormously on our level of interest in our project, our goal.

Example: you want to get back into sport and stick with it for the long term. So maybe setting yourself the goal of doing an official 5 km race by the end of the year might motivate you a lot more than saying you’re going to run 3 km on Sundays for the rest of your life.

But there’s no need to expect too much. Just enough to keep you motivated over the long term.

Start slowly to maintain motivation over time

In the beginning, our motivation is so high that we tend to do a lot. The problem is that we exhaust our motivation. In fact, I’ve found that, to stay motivated, it’s best to start slowly.

Example: you want to lose 10 kilos. At first, you’re going to restrict yourself on everything, but pretty soon you’ll start to feel the lack and gradually eat away at your motivation. So why not start slowly by replacing a fatty or sugary food in your diet with a healthier one? What do you think?

The power of habits

To maintain motivation over the long term, nothing beats a good habit. In fact, a good habit is something you do on a given day at a given time, and you don’t even think about it anymore. As a result, we need to draw less and less on our limited reserves of motivation.

Example: instead of going for a run when you’re feeling motivated, decide to go for a run on such-and-such a day at such-and-such a time, whether you’re motivated or not. It will change everything in your life, so what are you waiting for?

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