Trying to hold onto Motivation

I have noticed a pattern of finding it difficult to stay engaged once the initial excitement of something has worn off.

I am great with short term goals and often actually prefer them.  I will give up anything to achieve it. Long-term goals for me are fine but sometimes I struggle to hold motivation.  I have followed through many long-term goals in my life, my goal to get to + figures in golf being my greatest. 

Often, self doubt, fear of success and a concern that the goal is not realistic are reasons I have often failed or gone off track. 

I have learnt that at any point, I can change the goal, revise it or dump it and start again.

Self doubt easily creeps in, it's easy to feel powerless, I have found that it helps me to remind myself I am in charge.  When the going gets tough for me, I feel like the choices that were made long ago were possibly not mine. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that I am the one who originally set this goal.  I often will look back at things that I have already achieved.
All long haul goals, I have found take multiple, incremental steps to attain.  I will often remind myself of previous achievements.

It's so easy to become frustrated about what feels like a lack of movement towards a goal of mine.  I will often make a list of the steps I have already enacted to reach it, and what the results of those steps have been. I am almost always surprised at how much I’ve produced. This clarity helps in releasing those feelings of frustration.

Taking the time to have these talks with myself helped to re-invigorate me, to renew my focus, and encouraged me to continue.  Goals are not set in stone, like everything in life, I have always approached them with flexibility and open-mindedness.

Only I can decide what is best for me, and that can change over time. It’s so important to give myself permission to go for goals with full-on focus and gusto, or to change them, or put them aside for a while, or whatever else I decide is right at that time.