Energise Your Day - 5 Top Tips to Boost Your Motivation

1) Small, Simple Steps

Setting yourself a goal can feel all kinds of overwhelming. By starting off small and breaking it down into actionable steps or tasks, you’re more likely to stick with it.

Want to exercise a little more every day but struggling? Don’t set yourself up for failure by forcing yourself to get to the gym every day for an hour, commit to something that moves your body for five minutes and see how you get on for a week. You can then increase the time the following week but starting with small and manageable steps will help you on your way. They all add up.

2) Just. Start.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” If you find yourself constantly staring at your phone every time you think about your goals, it’s time to put it down! It’s so easy to pick up your phone (for something useful and purposeful, of course) and quickly find yourself falling down a rabbit hole of Instagram scrolling, YouTube videos, and wasting precious time, yet achieving nothing but a heap of guilt.

It sounds so mightily simple but so often we tend to overthink our goals and what we want to do and achieve that we almost become paralysed by procrastination and then… surprise, surprise, nothing actually happens.

Take a step back and just start, small. Make a small start today. Procrastination truly is the thief of time… it’s time to choose productivity over being busy.

4) Buddy Up

Find yourself an accountability buddy, someone who will, quite literally hold you accountable when you’re not showing up for yourself. Let them know what you’d like to do, what your goals are, and where you’re struggling. By setting yourself some deadlines and having someone to hold you accountable, you’ll be more likely to do exactly what you set out to.

Let your accountability buddy help you identify the hurdles you’re facing, schedule regular check-ins and create a plan. If you’re not achieving your goal, it might not be the goal but the plan or course of action that’s getting in your way.

5) Reward Yourself

It’s important to look at how far you’ve come and the challenges you’ve worked through. Take a moment of reflection and reward yourself with a treat for all your hard work and efforts.

Have a break, track your progress, congratulate yourself for showing up and well, for just being you. Maybe that treat comes in the form of a walk in the sunshine, a power nap, or a good old cup of tea and a slice of cake (because tea and cake is always a good idea). Or, why not swap your cup of tea for a refreshing sparkling tea, to help re-energise?

As success mentor, Darren Hardy, says “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”