One of the hardest things in being an artist is keeping up with commitments that we make to ourselves such as our positive addictions, finding inspiration, exercising, eating healthy, living as our best selves! I find that I have difficulties at times staying motivated to do the things that at the time seem tough, but in the long run with improve my life, because I want that immediate satisfaction! Continuing to stay on track with a goal that we have in the future can be the hardest thing to live with!
My favorite tips to stay motivated with lifestyle choices:
1. Focusing on your habits/journey/rituals that you can do EVERYDAY to bring you closer to your desire goals, rather than purely focusing on the desired OUTCOME. The outcome can only become real when we act on it, by breaking it down into small chunks to do everyday. And that is what life is, a journey; not an outcome, that is the fun of it, trying your hardest to follow through doing your habits and journey, and then when the outcome does happen, it will flow seamlessly into your life, and you won't feel like you need to "stop" because you reached a goal, but can continue to follow with the discipline, to continue to improve your life everyday! This goes along with number 2.
2. "99% bitch, 100% breeze". -Jack Canfield
Go all out, and you don't have to think about it. You just do it, because you know you want to.
3. Positive Addictions- William Glasser talks about a positive addiction as "Anything at all that a person chooses to do as long as it fulfills the following six criteria: (1) It is something noncompetitive that you choose to do and you can devote an hour (approximately) a day to it. (2) It is possible for you to do it easily and it doesn’t take a great deal of mental effort to do it well. (3) You can do it alone or rarely with others but it does not depend upon others to do it. (4) You believe that it has some value(physical, mental, or spiritual) for you. (5) You believe that if you persist at it you will improve, but this is completely subjective—you need to be the only one who measures that improvement. (6) The activity must have the quality that you can do it without criticizing yourself. If you can’t accept yourself during this time the activity will not be addicting.”
4. Telling yourself and others, "I want to or choose to do this activity", as opposed to "I have to". It bothers me when people say "I have to do this", when they really mean it, rather than just as an expression. You really don't have to do anything. Point blank.
Staying motivated is hard, but lastly, visualizing a positive outcome from doing these habits, as if they are already integrated into your life, is the greatest way to find your way to your Goals, and Dreams and staying motivated along the way!
And if none of this works, this better! Or you probably don't have a pulse. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjYoKCBYag
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