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v Keep Learning: Read and try to take in everything you can. The more you
learn, the more confident you become in starting projects. Eight Steps To
Self-Motivation
v See the Good in Bad: When encountering obstacles or challenging goals,
you want to be in the habit of finding what works to get over them. So, be
positive and find good in everything. Start Simple
v Stop Thinking: Just do the work. If you find motivation for a particular
project lacking, try getting started on something else. Something trivial Keep Good Company
even, then you’ll develop the momentum to begin the more important
stuff. When you’re thinking and worrying about something too much, Keep Learning
you’re just wasting time.
v Know Yourself: Keep notes on when your motivation drops and when See the Good in Bad
you feel like a superstar. There will be a pattern that, once you are aware
of, you can work around and develop. Know Yourself

v Track Your Progress: Keep a tally or a progress bar for ongoing projects.
When you see something growing, you will always want to nurture it. Stop Thinking
v Help Others: Helping others actually helps yourself. Share your ideas
and help friends get motivated. Seeing others do well will motivate you to Track Your Progress
do the same. Write about your success and get feedback from the readers.
Help Others
Self-regulation
Self-regulation can be defined as the ability to control one’s behaviour, emotions, and thoughts in the pursuit of
long-term goals. More specifically, emotional self-regulation refers to the ability to manage disruptive emotions
and impulses.

Self-regulation

Will power Emotional
Executive Regulation
Functioning Self-Control
Flexibility Self-Management
Effortful Control

Self-regulation is like an invisible magic. You cannot see it or smell it, but its effects are amazing. It can transform
fat into slim, ignorant into expert, poor into rich, misery into happiness. It prepares you for that bumpy ride all
the way to the shore. It makes you happier and gives you that sense of real achievement earned through sheer
intensity of sustained focus. If you really want to succeed at a task, then self-regulation is essential. It is easy to
feel that success comes easily; that it is just a question of self-belief. But anyone who has achieved anything has
done so because they have been able to control and direct their own inner lives and actions to the extent that has
enabled them to become proficient at what they do.

Strategies for Self-regulation
If self-regulation is so important, why were most of us never taught strategies for using this skill? Most often
we all expect to do this naturally. While this is true for the most part, all children and adults can benefit from
learning some concrete strategies for self-regulation.

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