Let’s acknowledge something that doesn’t get talked about enough, sometimes life is actually pretty damn good.
Things just seem to work out, you’re motivated to get up and crack on with what the day has in store. You have a great work / life balance, you have more money hitting your bank account than leaving it, you’re content, healthy, have lots of family and friends around and are generally very happy. Sometimes though instead of enjoying it, a small voice pipes up:
“This won’t last, all good things must come to end end”
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Don’t Panic When Things Are Working Out
When life feels steady, it’s tempting to ease off, start taking things for granted. To drop the habits, routines, or mindset that got you here, simply because there’s no obvious problem to fix.
But if something is working, it doesn’t need replacing or changing, it needs maintaining. Like a car needs servicing whether it’s 10 year old Ford or nearly new Rolls Royce.
Consistency isn’t boring, its the key to ensuring that good phase you’re going through continues.
Motivation Doesn’t Have to be Dramatic
You need to recognise that your motivation for doing something has changed. Perhaps in tough times your motivation was a desperation to get out of the rut you may have been stuck in, doing everything you could to try and build a better life. When things are going well, your motivation changes. It may be less urgent, not feel as stressful but it still needs to be there.
You still need goals and a plan about what you do next, otherwise you will just plod along and may eventually start to go backwards.
How to Keep Motivated:
- Adjust your goals. They don’t have to be about finances if you’re in a good place money wise. Your goals could be about having more free time to spend with family and friends, or to be able to help out worthwhile causes….or even pass on what has enabled you to become happy and content to others.
- Stick with habits that support you and have got you this far. Don’t stop what has worked for you. Review and adjust what you do, but don’t stop.
- Perhaps now the desperation has gone to get to your happy place, your urgent need to achieve goals can be replaced with slow and steady progress. New goals may need longer to come to fruition, perhaps structuring your business so that it doesn’t rely on you 24/7….or even writing a blog to try and help others. This could take years to build and still only get a few views per article, but success could be if it helps just one person out of a dark place.
This kind of motivation doesn’t shout, but it lasts.
Enjoy the Good Times Without Waiting for the Drop
You don’t need to brace yourself.
You don’t need to anticipate a downturn.
You’re allowed to enjoy things as they are.
Often, good things end not because they had to, it might be a cycle, a process that simply had run its course. The important thing is whilst that process is running successfully and creating good times, you invest your motivation in the next step. Another hobby, another arm to your business, a clear plan of action that can help you carry on your good times.
That old saying has never been more true, “Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket“
You’re now starting from a much stronger position, the goals may still be tough goals but will feel much easier to achieve. This is because you have already achieved goals, so your mind now thinks more about success and less about failure. It likes, not fears the challenge of new goals. It becomes almost like a game where you now enjoy the thrill of taking your life to the next level and not dread or worry about failure if it doesn’t quite work out.
Keep the Foot on the Accelerator…
…Just ease off a little
This isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about staying engaged, being consistent and evolving your goals and plans.
- Think maintenance, not demolition and rebuild.
- Long term momentum, not short term, low value wins (although sometimes these are good for a quick pick me up on days where you are simply not feeling it).
- Curiosity about what is next, not complacency thinking the good times will carry on regardless.
Final Thought
Not all good things have to come to an end.
Some things last because we notice them, protect them, and keep showing up.
If life feels good right now, let that be enough, keep doing what’s working but have a plan for your next steps.
You don’t need a crisis to justify growth. Bigger growth can flourish now you have solid foundations to work from.
GET STUFF DONE 
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