1. Decide What You Must Achieve Today.

It is easy to get caught up with non-urgent matters that you can either ignore completely or do at a later date.

All that clutter leaves you confused about what to do so you end up procrastinating.

You need to ask yourself:

What is of utmost importance that I must complete today?

Define that specific goal and focus solely on that until you have achieved it.

Clarity is power. It allows you to operate in a peak state of concentration and will help to ensure you are at your

best. You will be amazed at how much you will get done and how successful you will feel when you FOCUS.

2. Break Down Complex Goals Into Manageable Steps.

One of biggest mistakes people make is failure to take big projects and restructure them as a series of

challenging but stimulating tasks.

Take any project and list sequence of steps you need to follow. Make sure steps are big enough to keep your

interest and not so small that you feel bored by prospect of moving ahead with project.

It is very motivating to have a highly specific game plan that challenges you without leaving you overwhelmed.

And what a lack of motivation means..

As you read this article you will start to understand why a lack of motivation is costing you even more than you realize.

As you read story below notice how much you have in common with me...

Growing up I never really had much trouble getting things done. I was told what to do by my parents or by my teachers and I did what was expected of me because it was easiest choice for me.

Getting punished never appealed to me very much.

Then as I got older and especially when I joined workforce I could get away with doing less and with leaving things until deadline approached.

In fact in one company where I worked it made no sense finishing work before deadlines because management kept moving goal posts.

And very often I worked with people who refused to stretch themselves. This culture of doing as little as you can and appearing to be productive slowly dragged me down.

Over years as a result of experiences like these I developed bad habits.

One of those habits was a lack of motivation habit.

I can see now how a few bad choices in how I approached work affected all aspects of my life.

The same may be true for you...

What we did over years was create bad habits that need to be given up and replaced with a new way of behaving.

Do you realize what these bad habits have cost you in your life?

1. You missed sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that comes with succeeding on a big scale.

2. You lost respect of your peers and you are excluded from winners circle.

3. You no longer feel in control of your destiny and in fact you are a victim of circumstance.

4. You earn far less than people of lesser intelligence and ability.