In the beginning, you are super motivated to start letting you look forward to start and to keep practicing every day. But there comes a time when you lose motivation and you don't feel like doing it what to do when this happens. I like to refer Brendon Burchard, who is a high performance coach. When he first started, he knew nothing about social media marketing, video, video editing, public speaking nothing, but still he didn't give up. And he forced himself to learn all of those skills during several years because he wanted to pursue his lifetime dream to share his message. If you really believe a certain skill would help you a lot to pursue any dream or any mission that you might have.
Don't give up anyway, there are a few things that you can do in order to get those spikes of motivation again in your life. So the first one is to answer some questions that will give you more clarity You can do this by reviewing your why, or the reasons why you are doing this. Like why did you start learning this skill in the first place? Why do you want to acquire this skill? How does this new skill will improve your life? Can you progress in your long term goals with this skill in your toolbox?
What are the three things you can say to yourself when you feel unmotivated? Can you journal about them? Can you put a reminder on your phone where the three reasons why you are learning this skill? This might give you an extra motivation? So do answer this questions, especially if you lack motivation right now. When you find yourself constantly and motivated and entired it might be a sign that you really need a long break.
And in fact, taking a break might be one of the best things you can do to progress in your learning curve because it is vital to keep your brain healthy in order to learn anything. Taking a break doesn't mean replacing practicing the skill to check in social media. All day really take a real break traveling to a new place or going to a different restaurant or facing your CD as you are a tourist. When you come from your break, you'll feel much more excited and eager to continue learning and practicing and mastering a skill. Anyway Jocko willing says motivation is not consistent. It comes and goes and you can't always count on it.
So when motivation fails, you count on discipline, but make sure you give yourself a break when you are really needing it.