Bored working? 10 things to help achieve your goals

You have reached a saturation point in life and all you want to do is to run up to an isolated island? Well, it is okay! We all get some withdrawal symptoms once in few months. So, how do you overcome this?

Here are 10 techniques to help you sail through this.

Push yourself to work when the work isn’t easy or fun to do.

You must be wondering how? Especially when you have lost all your interest into a particular task. It is very simple. Picture this. Say you have to hit the gym but you don’t want to. Pack your thoughts at such a moment, leave the house, hit the gym and do your daily workouts. Before you know it, momentum will occur and you will have no other choice but to keep moving forward.

Focus on the process and not the end goal.

While goals are important, focusing purely on the final outcome will always leave you feeling stressed and frustrated. Break down what you need to do for that day and start working at it. A year from now, you will look back at the work you did and realize how far you’ve gone.

Develop rituals and commit to them daily.

Your success is defined simply by what you do on a daily basis and not just how you do it. Figure out what needs to be done daily in order to move you forward and make it a daily ritual. In time, this will turn into a habit that will simply be unable for you to stop doing.

Set something up to make you accountable.

If you find it quite hard to push yourself, set something up that will make it inevitable.

If your goal is to wake up early, try something like parking your car in a “no parking zone,” which will force you to wake up at 6:30 in order to move it since you know that a parking attendant will give you a ticket if you fail to do so.

Make a list of benefits that you will gain from doing it.

Write down all of the benefits you will gain from doing what you’re doing and have it stuck on your wall where you see it in front of you on a daily basis.

Make a list of pains you will experience if you don’t do it.

If tip number 5 doesn’t work, write a list of consequences you will face if you don’t do it.

Have a higher purpose that motivates you to keep going.

Besides having goals, you need to have a higher reason to doing what you’re doing that goes above and beyond anything financial or personal.

Make your goals public.

There is nothing more motivating than to tell other people about what you’re going to do. The more people you announce it to, the more powerful it will be; it will force you to take action, since you’ll know that if you don’t do it, you will be branded as a failure or someone who doesn’t stay true to their word.

Set more challenging tasks in order to push yourself further.

If you’ve been doing something for long enough. There will come a point where you will reach comfort and familiarity with what you’re doing. It will seem monotonous and robotic to the point where you’re no longer thinking about the motions.

Create a list of higher and more challenging goals for yourself that will make things more fun and interesting again. Perhaps you could try taking more advanced classes or setting higher target numbers in your sales job, for example.

Mix up how you do things to rekindle the fun factor.

Doing the same things over and over again is never fun and can lead to boredom and frustration. Try doing the same things in different ways in order to create variety and inspire creativity.

Mix up your training plans, work on your activities in a different way or perhaps change it up completely!