How do I become motivated? - 63/101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers

This is an except from my book: 101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers.It is down to discipline, as it's easier to be motivated when you are passionate about the thing you are doing.There is a thing inside of us called 'ego depletion', which talks about how we lose energy as the day progresses. The longer we are awake, the more hours we spend working or the more decisions and choices we make throughout the day, all deplete our energy and power. This is why, as you may have heard Mark Zuckerberg always wears the same clothes, because it requires less mental processing power when he already knows what he is going to wear, thus saving him energy. This is a famous example, but a good example of reducing the decisions made throughout your day. What parts of your life can your streamline? Your clothes, food, routine, etc. Neither you nor I want to lose energy as the day progresses, as it means lost opportunity and energy.One thing that I was taught is to divide my day into 3 segments:The first segment is the first 1/3 of my day, which is where I have the most amount of energy and where I need to do the most mentally exhaustive and important tasks and objectives. Such as writing my books, answering important emails, sorting out customers, etc. This could be from 6-10am, or 8am till 12 midday.The second part is the 2/3 of the day and it is filled with your automatic daily tasks, whether personal or house chores. These are the tasks that do not require great amount of energy, but are important and need to be completed. This could from 10am till 2pm, or midday till 4pm.The last part of your day is where you have the least amount of energy, so you can reward yourself with pleasure, prizes, etc. When you reward yourself you are increasing your dopamine receptors in your brain and fanning your desires to strive and achieve more. This stage is also for relaxing.Look also to use an egg timer in your activities. Experiment with the Pomodoro technique, where you give yourself a 25 minute time span to complete a certain task- leveraging Parkinson's Law where a task will be completed in the allotted time given to it.It is down to maintaining your focus on activities and switching between different tasks constantly can drain your energy and make you overall less efficient. When you lose focus it can take you around 3 minutes to get back into focus. Try this little experiment: speak the alphabet and after each letter say the corresponding number. So: A1, B2, C3, D4, etc... Then try it again but just saying the letters and then separately counting to 26. When you separate out the tasks you are much faster, than if you were to count out the corresponding letters and numbers.One idea that a friends of time taught me that I like is to put £50 in a random page in a random book, so when you are reading and you find it randomly, it is a nice unexpected reward for you, which also spurs you onto to keep reading and learning.Lastly, it helps to maintain motivation when you have a goal to work towards. Define something you want to see in your life and work towards it, whether it is in health, wealth, love or happiness. You need a destination.Question of the day: How do you stay motivated?