We can talk about what motivation is and how it'll affect us. But, have ever really felt motivation? Usually, it comes by itself voluntarily and we can't really tell ourselves how to get motivated. So, is all we can do is sit on our seat and hope for motivation to come? I for one would surely hate this as I don't think hoping is good enough - I believe working for a miracle is better than hoping for it. In this case, working to get motivated is better than hoping we will get motivated somehow at some point.

Staying positive

One thing about motivation is optimism. Motivation will just not work if your brain is filled with negative thoughts. In my view, optimism is like the energy that pushes motivation and motivation is the energy that pushes one to success. Hence, the reason why you need to stay positive - without it, you will not build that 'force' to success. If you keep on telling yourself that you're a failure, you'll eventually just give up and will not be willing to fight your way through the struggles. But, if you say you can do something, you will be more determined to see it happening, meaning you would go through the challenges on your way.

Consistency

Doing something only when you feel like it, is not going to help! Trust me, I've done it all the time and am regretting it. In doing something, we need to be as consistent as possible. This is so that we can train ourselves to get used to work and not getting tired every time we try to get serious with some work. Imagine a field, if we've watered them for a whole day, would it mean it doesn't need any more water for the rest of the year? The same goes with motivation - to stay motivated, consistency is key.

Working hard

Being a hardworking person is not hard - all it needs is focus and dedication. How hard can that be, right? If you give yourself even a single chance of saying "I cannot be bothered to do this!" - you'll find laziness attractive until when you really need motivation - you'll find it's buried in the deep blue sea. Now, how sad will that be?

A little story

Last year, when I was in Year 12 - I took part in Young Enterprise at my college. It's basically a small business set up by students. At first, we decided to sell Christmas cards at school. The only problem was, when we had the cards - our product, to sell - no one wanted to sell. Most said the 'thing' was not going to sell. Anyone in their right mind would ask "What's the point of buying the product if you're not going to sell?" - that was the question I asked myself. Being an enthusiastic person, I just stayed positive - no matter how exhausting or frustrating my effort seemed at times, and used most of my free periods, in three weeks, going around the college to sell the 150 cards that we've produced. In the end, my team was shocked. It was the last week before Christmas holidays and all the cards have been sold. Happy with myself? Completely.

This is just to highlight how the points I've mentioned in this article is important when it comes to motivation. It doesn't take much, just a bit of self-belief and optimism can help build up that thing they call motivation.

Nabihah is an 18 year old girl who not only learns from her experience, but others'. She loves to read and write, and watch TV programmes which she finds useful in life, hence the secret behind her knowledge. Poetry as her favourite hobby, and blogging http://nmzcode.blogspot.com/ her second, she's always known as a cheeky monkey.