When you're working for yourself or running your own business, sometimes you'll find that your body is willing but your motivation has taken a vacation to Cancun for the next 4 weeks (and it hasn't been returning your calls, either).

Lacking motivation as an entrepreneur is the same as having writers block - the sense of frustration is palpable, but you just can't seem to "shift" whatever it is that has been sucking you dry of motivation for the last number of days or weeks.

Take a time-out and walk away from the problem. You need to mentally and emotionally switch off from whatever issue, task or project you're dealing with and leave it be for a while. How To 'Remove "You" From The Equation'

The longer you stare at something the more you're committing that "something" to your short-term, and then long-term memory; once that happens, your mind reaches a kind of 'mental plateau' where your ability to resolve the "something" stops. How To 'Remove "You" From The Equation'

That's why you literally get off your ass if you're sitting, or take a hike if you're not - you need to walk away, and do something else.

The more random that "something else" is, the better it is for you. This will clean your mental palette and give your mind the ability to create the solution you've been looking for subconsciously. Try it.

Help Others I know, I know. How can helping others help you?

Well, as part of the "removing yourself" from the issue you need to do something else until your motivational problem clears, but I've always found that helping others is one of the best ways of motivating myself.

When you put yourself in a position of serving others through volunteer work, or being charitable, you learn a lot of valuable life lessons about yourself and the world around you. Even just sharing information - such as this report - is a helping experience, and that makes me feel good.

It's often when we're helping others that we have those 'Eureka' moments that drive us to achieve great things in life and in business. You can also improve the life of another person or animal in the process, so it's the most holistic type of "Win-Win" you could wish for.

Accountability Coach Sometimes, what we see as a lack of motivation is partly a motivational problem, and partly that we're just being lazy, and basically need a kick in the rear to get us going.

Accountability Coach That's why an accountability coach can be a very useful assistant to keep you focused and moving forwards.

Accountability Coach For this to work properly, you'll need your "coach" to be one of your peers, or at least somebody with a similar background, job and experience level as you - they need to be able to really talk to you and their motivational steps will come from understanding where you are and what you're struggling with.

Accountability Coach It also means they know how to get you back on track and won't take any BS or excuses from you.

Lacking motivation isn't something you'll ever need to worry about if you put these tips to work for you.

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