How Do I Motivate Myself When I Want To Give Up?

You can motivate yourself, even when you feel like trash.

Key Points of Article:

1. My backstory and why it’s important to know who you’re taking information from.
2. Know your “WHY”
3. Imagine who you are when you give up.
4. Assignments and FREE worksheet!

“If I gave up, I would have never known the amazing life that I have now.” – Mikayla Rosabeth

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Backstory:

• When I graduated from Business school, I wasn’t expecting how many failures that came alongside starting a business.
• Failure after failure with starting production, sanitization, marketing, manufacturing, bottling, and one after another continued piling high.
• It started to get to me.
• Here’s why:

1. I started Rosabeth Mooon LLC to as a self-help company with the mission to impact everyone who wants to better their mind, body, and spirit.
2. I started this company and the curation of my Articles, Blog, and Rosabeth Mooon Motivation channels as an expression of this goal.
3. I started getting immediate support, then dropped off crickets…

And all I wanted to do was help people help themselves.

In a way without judgment, with a distinctive teaching style that allows the user to integrate the skincare, teachings & assignments to their lives.

So, then I began getting into a funk. I couldn’t find happiness in the company anymore. After over 5 years of learning, getting degrees, and training, for it to not work out and help others made me want to give up…

But I said no, I refuse to give up! 

How I found my motivation again after almost giving up:

Tip #1: I reminded myself of my “WHY”.

• Your why is an urge or feeling of an outcome so strong, that it penetrates all negative emotions and will motivate you.
• EX of my why:
  • My why is to help others who felt like I did, and help their mind, bodies, and spirit feel better.
  • While creating accessible resources to impact as many people as possible because I didn’t have the access when I needed it.
  • Provide idiosyncrasy teachings to everyone to feel empowered in their choices.
• My why that will always motivate me is why I haven’t given up.

Tip #2: Imagine who you are when you give up.

• This is critical to understand.
• If you gave up, you would never know what it’s like to be everything you ever wanted.
• Instead, the feelings that you felt before you tried, will increase tremendously.
  • Sadness
  • Despair
  • Wasting Time
  • Wasting Life
  • Hopeless
  • Depressed
  • Anxious
• …and so on.

Assignment to integrate these practices into your daily life:

1. Figure out your ‘WHY’.
   1. If you need more help on this, reference the article, “How Defining Yourself And Identity Is The Key To Being Successful” by the search bar above or in the Articles link above.
2. Write down who you are when you’ve achieved your ‘why’.
   1. Focus on what the amazing outcome is when you finally achieve your why and the impact on your life it will have.
   2. Savor it and enjoy it.
3. Listen to “Never Gave Up” Affirmations.
   1. For the science behind why affirmations work, check out the article, “Do Affirmations Really Work to Improve My Life for the Better? by typing it in the search bar above or the article link above!

Free Worksheet!

Simply download the image to your device or computer. Print the worksheet if you learn better through writing. Or you can integrate the worksheet in whichever way you learn best! 

• Examples of how to integrate worksheets:
  • Thinking about the answers.
  • Writing them in a journal.
  • Printing the worksheet and creating a self-help workbook.
  • Discuss the questions with a friend, out loud, or a therapist.
• Endless integration tactics!
• It’s all about doing what works for you.