<p>There is a lot that has been written about how to motivate yourself when your motivation is weak.</p>
<p>Many of those <a href="http://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/" title="Browse articles on motivational techniques">motivation techniques</a> are great, but in order to make them even more effective, let&#8217;s take a look at 10 things that kill motivation in order to figure out what causes our motivation to die in the first place.</p>
<h2>1. No goals</h2>
<p>Without goals, you really don&#8217;t need motivation. I mean, what in the world would you do with it? Run around in circles? Many people complain about not being motivated to do anything. The majority of the time, it&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t have any goals that excite them enough to do anything. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/12/10-things-that-kill-motivation-by-kevin-ngo/" title="Permanent Link: 10 Things That Kill Motivation By Kevin Ngo" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":143,"date":"2009-12-27T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T02:50:22","slug":"10-things-that-kill-motivation-by-kevin-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/12\/10-things-that-kill-motivation-by-kevin-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things That Kill Motivation By Kevin Ngo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot that has been written about how to motivate yourself when your motivation is weak.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/\" title=\"Browse articles on motivational techniques\">motivation techniques<\/a> are great, but in order to make them even more effective, let&#8217;s take a look at 10 things that kill motivation in order to figure out what causes our motivation to die in the first place.<\/p>\n<h2>1. No goals<\/h2>\n<p>Without goals, you really don&#8217;t need motivation. I mean, what in the world would you do with it? Run around in circles? Many people complain about not being motivated to do anything. The majority of the time, it&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t have any goals that excite them enough to do anything. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/12\/10-things-that-kill-motivation-by-kevin-ngo\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 10 Things That Kill Motivation By Kevin Ngo\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}