Motivation is something that should be internal.
You can do a lot to change the environment around you, so that you are surrounded exclusively by positively motivating forces; however, you will never able to separate yourself from all of the negative influences.
For this reason, it is critical that you develop a strong sense of internal motivation.
Even in the darkest hours, you must be able to derive motivation internally; and use that internal motivation to keep moving and keep accomplishing your goals.
Tonight, instead of closing the curtains all the way and jamming a towel under the door to block out any light from creeping in, leave the curtains partly open.
Allow the light streaming in through the window to gradually wake you up tomorrow morning before your alarm clock even goes off.
Allowing natural light to wake you up gradually each morning can go a long way in terms of synchronizing your internal clock.
This could improve your mood significantly, making it easier for you to get and stay motivated.
It could also ensure that you stay happy throughout the morning.
Sometimes, when all else fails, caffeine is the answer.
Whether you drink coffee, tea, or soda, it may be a good idea to grab one if your energy has flat-lined; and your motivation has disappeared with it.
Of course, this strategy will not solve severe motivational problems in the long term, but in the short term, it can go a long way to help you get through the rest of a work day or to help you push through a difficult project.
While many people think to re-organize their offices, less think about reorganizing their computer.
In fact, this can go a long way towards ensuring that you stay motivated throughout the day and achieve the goals you have set forth.
The reason for this is simple: if you have a disorganized desktop and a disorganized folder structure, you will have a harder time finding things that you need.
The longer it takes you to put together the materials you need for a project, the less you will feel inclined to do so.
Restructuring your folders and clearing off your desktop can solve this problem.
It will make it easy and convenient for you to find everything, eliminating the incentive to give up and move on.
Life is filled with distractions of many varieties.
Having a disorganized workspace can be a distraction.
Responding to an email later, rather than sooner, can be a distraction.
Leaving a personal issue unresolved can be a distraction.
Every loose-end left untied and every issue delayed indefinitely can leave you distracted.
And these distractions can kill your motivation, leaving you uninterested and unable to achieve your goals.
For this reason, you should spend some time each day eliminating distractions.
Do you have meetings coming up, but you are not sure when they are going to be? Figure it out and put them on your calendar.
Do you have emails to send and calls to make? Send the emails and make the calls now.
By the end of the day, you will feel less distracted, more motivated, and more able to achieve your goals.
Re-evaluating your life and your goals is not an easy thing to do.
It requires a great deal of reflection, planning, and careful thought and who you truly are and what it is that you want to accomplish with the one life that you have.
These are not trivial questions by any means; and so you should ask and answer them carefully.
Spend some time to do this on a monthly or bi-monthly basis.
Reacquaint yourself with your life and your goals; and use them to draw motivation for the steps you will have to take next.
When it comes to getting motivated, there are few better things you can do than meditation.
Meditation will help you to attain a focus that you may have never achieved in your lifetime thus far.
Meditation will allow you to focus so clearly and so carefully on one topic that many challenges and problems you would have noticed otherwise will fade into the background.
I personally suggest that you try meditating next time you are feeling unmotivated.
If it works for you, keep it in your arsenal of tools, so that you can use it whenever you hit a snag.
It is important for you to find commitment devices that work for you; and to employ them to keep you motivated and to ensure that you have the incentives to reach your goal.
One highly effective commitment device is to post your goals publicly.
You can do this in a forum, on your blog, or you can simply announce them to your family members and friends.
Doing this will make it harder for you to give up on your goals, as you will be held accountable by your blog visitors, by the forum visitors, and by people you know.
If you truly want to accomplish your goals, you have to start by getting motivated.
Without motivation, you simply will not be able to muster up the drive to follow through with your plans, complete your objectives, and eventually reach your goal.
Fortunately, motivation does not have to be something that is hard to come-by.
It is almost entirely driven by internal moods and decisions.
This means that you have a great deal of control over it; and can change it whenever you desire to get better results.
It is just a matter of you making that decision and following through.
So, no matter where you find yourself today, there are ways to get motivated, to turn things around, and to accomplish your goals.