Are You Struggling With Motivation?

Struggling with motivation can be a hard thing to recognize and even harder to overcome. Lacking motivation can affect your life in many ways: it can put a strain on your relationships, cause your work to suffer, increase stress, among other things. There are a few different things that could be the cause of your lack of motivation like depression, feeling stuck or stunted, etc.

In this article, I am going to share a few signs you can watch for to determine if you have a lack of motivation and why you may be feeling that struggle.

Signs of struggling with motivation

It can be hard to recognize that you have a problem with motivation and even harder to admit it and work to improve it. The following are common signs that motivation is a problem for you.

You’re easily distracted

Sometimes called "Shiney Object Syndrome," everyone gets distracted from time to time, but this is taking it to a whole new level. If you’ve found yourself being distracted by any and everything all the time, you’re clearly struggling with motivation.

You don’t want to do things

While everyone has things they have to do that they don’t want to do, you may find yourself strongly not wanting to do anything to the point that you find yourself unable to do anything. If you find yourself never wanting to even do something to further or better yourself, you might be struggling with motivation.

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