Motivation is the one ingredient that keeps a man on course toward his goals. This is something that we all need to attain success for without it, how do we stay on course? How do we survive in the Den of discouragement?

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Talking about Discouragement? it is everywhere. Nothing seems to want us to keep going, nothing seems to push us to do more. It is always just easy to quit and let everything go. This is why I have brought up this question; What is the best way to stay motivated?

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Yeah in my previous articles, I have talked about so many ways to stay motivated. One of them was about Having a Circle; STRONG WE's. I have once even talked about having an accountability partner; someone who is in the same learning process as you but is there to check up on you and how you are doing, whether you are progressing or getting de-motivated.

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These are all great ways of killing off demotivation but the question still comes up; How Best Can One Stay Motivated? Not all the methods which I have mentioned above can be available to a person. I mean, not everybody has a circle to look back to, Not everybody finds the best person to make an accountability partner, this also couples up with a very discouraging environment that wants the opposite of what we seek.

This question clicked up to me when a person sent a message in the WhatsApp group I recently joined today. I don't know anybody in the group because I got the link online where I was learning a course I bought on Udemy.

The person who sent this message just started this same course and was discouraged by one of his friends that the course was easy to learn and getting outdated. He said he was frustrated and discouraged because he loves the course and doesn't know what else to do.

I smiled after reading this and had to give him a truthful reply. I replied:

Smiles… Don’t let people discourage you. frontend development cannot die as far as the web cannot die. In life, nothing is hard depending on your mindset towards it. So if frontend development is easy, so are the Backend and Cloud Development. Also, people might think it’s easy but yet they may only know the scratch of it and do not learn it deeply. There is a difference between knowing something and being very practical at a thing. So Man! Block all discouragements and keep straight to your goals and directions.

That was when he replied in appreciation for my words also saying he doesn't have anyone to motivate him and that it is tough for him to keep up. This was when the question came to my mind.

At this point, there is no other answer than Self-Motivation. So how does one stay Self-motivated? I had written a post quite similar on how to stay self-motivated in which your eyes need to stay directly on the prize after all your struggles and efforts thriving.

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The thing about self-motivation is that it is quite tough for people with low-self esteem who believes they don't deserve more than what life gives to them. People who may think that they are not up to rank or up to class with others. People who think very low of themselves.

Now I have my question for you, and I would appreciate your response in my comment section. I would be curating them to show my appreciation.