Salwa Mahmoud Abuzeed

You’ve got an idea. You’re excited about it and the first few weeks go effortlessly. In the beginning, you feel as if you are in a flurry of activity: you organize things efficiently, you make phone calls and send emails, you start to get things moving, then you hit a wall. It’s not uncommon for us to be really excited about something when we first embark upon it, it’s when we are a few weeks or months in that the real work begins. If you feel that you have become stuck in a rut with an idea, then there are ways to motivate yourself to achieve your plans and goals. Getting stuck is nothing to be ashamed of – it happens to us all. The trick is learning how to motivate yourself when you’ve lost some of that golden enthusiasm you had when you first decided to study, take on a new project or job, or start that business.