The document discusses strategies for setting and achieving goals to stay motivated. It recommends categorizing goals into areas like physical, financial, and career. Goals should be specific, measurable, and broken into short- and long-term steps. To stay motivated, it suggests writing down goals and checkpoints, avoiding temptations, taking advantage of energy peaks, setting deadlines, and recognizing that mistakes are allowed. The document also notes that people are motivated differently and fear should not be used, while achievements of others should be recognized.

1. Motivating Yourself

2. Setting Goals - Categories
• Physical
• Financial
• Spiritual
• Career
• Family
• Mental
• Social

3. Setting Goals
• Make sure it is something you want (doesn’t just
sound good)
• Can’t be in conflict with other goals or your values
• Realistic and achievable
• Specific and measurable
• Short- and long-term steps
• Written down with deadlines

4. Motivating Yourself
• Put plans on paper. Spell out goals and specific ways
to reach them.
• Break the goal down into small pieces so that you
have no excuse for not starting it.
• Establish checkpoints so you can check on your
progress.
• Remind yourself of the benefits you expect from
completion of the goal.

5. Motivating Yourself
• Avoid temptation by deliberately avoiding
circumstances that might sidetrack you.
(GET STARTED, don’t stall.)
• Take advantage of energy peaks, those periods of
the day when you are habitually in top form.

6. Motivating Yourself
• Take risks. Don’t be afraid to try new methods.
• Set deadlines and hold yourself to them.
• Make an honest distinction between “I can’t” and “I
don’t want to.”

7. Motivating Yourself
• Decide how you want to start. What needs to be
done first?
• Use self-signaling devices…notes, cues, reminders.
• Recognize conflicts and make a choice. Don’t let
inertia set in.
• Give yourself the right to make mistakes. No one is
perfect.

8. De-Motivating Others
• Using fear
• Thinking that what motivates me, motivates others.
• Not recognizing that supporting others’ motivation is
a process, not a task.

9. How To Help Motivate Others
• Find out what motivates others
• Reinforce when you see progress
• Celebrate achievements