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By: Shannon Clark Article Summary:  When you are feeling less motivated than before, your self-efficacy levels may be very low. New strategies for focusing and journaling can help you get back on top of your game. Try switching goals entirely to amp up your motivation! If you're like most people, from time to time you're going to find your motivational levels starting to wane, which can seriously derail your goals and overall belief capability in yourself. How much effort we regularly put into all the aspects of our lives helps us to form our own self-efficacy, which is essentially our belief in ourselves to get things done. When you have low self-efficacy levels, you'll find that you have an overall lower self-confidence and experience less success in all aspects of your life. By making sure you can stay the course with not only your workouts but any other projects you set out to accomplish, you help boost your self-confidence in your ability. It's not only great for t...

Image by DVIDSHUB via Flickr Write down your goals. Create a fitness action plan. Devise a desirable reward. Set a completion date. Enter a competition. Enter a competition amongst your friends. Write "Every Day is a New Battle" on your bathroom mirror. Post your favorite fitness role model Practice core strength Read some "how to" fitness articles. Join a fitness web blog. Pray and thank Allah for the amount of weight you've already lost. Make a supportive fitness group. Hang around fit friends. Surround yourself with people and things that promote a healthy lifestyle. Document your progress: weight, body fat, and blood pressure. Talk to competitors and pros that live for fitness. Ask your role models what motivates them. Take a chance and email your role model off their web site. Become a trainer. Humble a trainer by knowing more stuff than him/her. Look like a trainer. Buy new athletic shoes. Buy a new workout outfit. Buy clean, new, and comfortable socks. W...