If you feel you often need a better posture just try following next time you are out walking and see how it positively changes your feelings of optimism and allows deeper breathing.

1. While walking put your chin up away from your chest.

2. Look towards horizon and make each step you take meaningful. Push strongly off with your feet as you walk.

3. You have now eliminated hunching and opened up your airways more fully. This is key to improving energy, strength, and feeling better!

4. Feel yourself breathing and note whether it is still shallow. If so, consciously make your breaths deeper with inhalation moving towards your belly button.

5. Do not force or hold breath. Just focus on combining a better posture with deeper more energising breathing.

Having done this you should feel much better! Following these simple steps will mean you are simultaneously boosting self-esteem and creating better health through your breath.

Follow these simple protocols next time you are out and you will quickly come to understand saying “You can never feel down when you are looking up!”

© Tim Webb 2005

5. Have energy. Caffeine will substitute for health for a while, but one way or another, you need some energy to have daily motivation. Exercise, sleep well, and watch out for sugary foods - "sugar blues" will kill your motivation.

6. Create proper mental state. It's hard to be depressed and motivated. Resolve some of your negative feelings, or at least do your important work when you are in a better mood.

7. Take a small step. Commit to raking up one bag of leaves, and soon you'll want to finish yard. Any small step towards your goals feeds your daily motivation.

Now you have seven ways to self-motivation, but you have to actually use them. How do you get motivated to do that? Oh irony! You'll have to figure that one out yourself. By way, here's a bonus motivation method: Humor. Laughter often breaks up feeling of being overwhelmed that sucks away motivation.