But if you skipped a day after all, under no circumstances are you allowed to become negative. You are not allowed to mentally punish yourself and think of yourself as a loser with no willpower. This will only make the situation worse and you risk giving up on your goal completely. Get back on-track and continue working on your success. Keeping a positive attitude towards your goals is the number one thing that will help you stay on track.

Feel Like You ALREADY Did It

Another way to stay focused on your goal and keep motivated is to visualize an actual result. You have to imagine how you will feel after your task is completed. If you don’t want to organize your desk, imagine how great it will look after you clean it, how great you will feel while sitting at it. Imagine running you finger on the shiny, clean, polished surface. Imagine how much easier it will be to breathe when you are not surrounded by the piles of documents and clutter. You might need to practice a few times before you will be able to visualize things this clearly. But don’t worry, you’ll get it.

There is a quick way to check how well you can visualize things. Don’t worry; I won’t make hold your hands up for ten minutes again. :) I’m not that mean. This will be a lot easier.

Close your eyes and hold your arms out in front of you. Relax, it’s nothing like a self-discipline trick. :) Imagine that a huge helium-filled balloon is tied to your one arm and a big bucket of water to the other. Focus hard on your arms while keeping your eyes closed. After about a minute, open your eyes.

Did you do it? Did you notice how one arm was higher than the other? The further your arms are apart (up and down), the better your focus. Similarly, you can visualize what you want, and subconsciously, you can do it!

One Small Trick That Works Even If You Feel Especially Lazy

Let me tell you one more trick you can use when you feel especially lazy. For example, you’ve decided to go jogging today, but when the time has come, you really don’t feel like getting up from the couch and doing any form of exercise. I feel like that quite often. :) In this case you should tell yourself:“I am not going to jog today. I will just get up and put my jogging shoes on”. It is a lot easier on your willpower to do a little, easy task, than a big one. In the most cases by the time you get up from the couch, put your shoes on, and get distracted from the TV show you were watching, you will probably decide to go jogging after all.

Just make yourself do the tiniest piece of the task. Like reading just one page from the textbook, or do just one set of ab-exercises, something that would take you only a couple of minutes. The funny thing is, once you start doing it you’ll most likely finish it all.