How to sustain healthy Self Motivation

In order to sustain healthy self-motivation, you need to:

• Love yourself enough to believe you deserve to accomplish change in your life.
• Set realistic goals.
• Visualize successful change.
• Be committed to personal health and self-satisfaction to attain and sustain change.
• Devote energy, effort, sustained vigilance, and personal sacrifice.
• Accept personal responsibility for problem behavior.
• Believe that only through personal efforts can a problem behavior be changed.
• Reinforce self success, no matter how small.
• Be able to break a large goal into small increments, which are obtainable, reasonable, and measurable, and to reward yourself for the attainment of these sub-goals without regret over the remaining steps still needing to be accomplished or satisfied.
• Accept that change of old habits is a lifelong process.
• Realize that the efforts to change do not end once initial cessation of old behaviors is attained.
• Believe that a work-oriented recovery lifestyle model is a lifelong process.
• Sustain the change in problem behaviors.
• Commit to a lifelong contract of behavior change.