49 Ways to keep your-self motivated!

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1. Write down your goals.
2. Create a fitness action plan.
3. Devise a desirable reward.
4. Set a completion date.
5. Enter a competition.
6. Enter a competition amongst your friends.
7. Write "Every Day is a New Battle" on your bathroom mirror.
8. Post your favorite fitness role model
9. Practice core strength
10. Read some "how to" fitness articles.
11. Join a fitness web blog.
12. Pray and thank Allah for the amount of weight you've already lost.
13. Make a supportive fitness group.
14. Hang around fit friends.
15. Surround yourself with people and things that promote a healthy lifestyle.
16. Document your progress: weight, body fat, and blood pressure.
17. Talk to competitors and pros that live for fitness.
18. Ask your role models what motivates them.
19. Take a chance and email your role model off their web site.
20. Become a trainer.
21. Humble a trainer by knowing more stuff than him/her.
22. Look like a trainer.
23. Buy new athletic shoes.
24. Buy a new workout outfit.
25. Buy clean, new, and comfortable socks.
26. Wear really bright colors to the gym.
27. Envision your workout during your warm-up.
28. Focus on the workout, one set at a time.
29. Beat yourself up with weights for even getting de-motivated.
30. Test your max on pushups and pullups.
31. Read articles of different Bodybuilders.
32. Help someone who is very overweight or wants to gain muscle.
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34. Place your alarm clock across your bedroom so that you have to get up to turn it off in the morning.
35. Alarm your cell phone to give you daily reminders to eat, work out, and give gratitude.
36. Volunteer your time with people who don't have full function of their bodies.
37. Look up new, healthy recipes to cook.
38. Observe your body type.
39. Learn a new exercise technique.
40. Say a prayer for power right before you train.
41. Say a prayer for performance right before your set.
42. Say a prayer for pain during your set.
43. Say a prayer for persistence after your set.
44. Say a prayer for positive action after you train.
45. Work out at a different gym.
46. Work out at a different time of day.
47. Work out using all new exercises.
48. Read articles on Bodybuilding.com.
49. You know what motivates you. Quit reading and make it happen.