How to stay motivated? Students experience low motivation ?

Examinations, and especially UPSC, being the toughest examination in the country is quite stressful. Students often feel a lack of motivation and eventually, they want to give up. However, this is just a phase and everybody goes from it. To overcome this phase, there are few ways.

• Make a routine (rigid): Student often feels lack of motivation or even guilty when they are unable to perform. The best way to stay on track is to make a fixed routine that will help you to grow and achieve your goal.
• Think Positively: One can’t ignore the wonders of a good attitude and self-belief. However, they can only come from positive thinking.
• Make your mantra: We all feel low at one point in life and that one point can make or break you. For a positive boost, make your mantra that will keep you going. Collect motivational quotes, write your strengths and do things that empower you.
• Take care of your body and mind: You can’t function without either of them. Your physical health and mental health are equally important. If you are healthy both physically and mentally, you can easily overcome the phase.
• Surround Yourself with Like-minded People –Avoid people who bring you down or are harmful to your mental wellbeing.
• Reward Yourself: No good deed should go unrewarded. Reward always works as motivation and forces you to take the call.
• Relax: Do not expect to stay motivated at all times, you can’t, nobody can! If you are not feeling good, it is completely fine. Just accept the fact, give yourself some time and just re-fill and re-start.

The keys to getting motivated to study are organizing your schedule and knowing how to use your mind effectively.