How can I remain motivated after career progression setbacks? I need help staying motivated.

The best way i stay motivated is to surround myself around what i want to be. NCOs of all ranks and different jobs. Everyone needs someone to vent to whether you feel comfortable with your peers, or your wife or maybe your first sergeant. You can't dwell on not preforming well. No one is perfect. Fix your flags one by one and thank your support system as you get better. This a time for you to stop being selfish and only thinking about yourself because that sounds like why you frustrated. Sit back and see how much people rely on you when youre not on top. There youll find your motivation. Good luck and tell us how it goes. But seriously take this break and breathe!

Best way? Keep it up brother. Don't take crap from anyone. Continue to be the best soldier you can! Life happens. It's not an excuse but it's true. We have good days and bad days. Push that negativity out and ruck on!

Nothing worthwhile comes easy! Just stay the course,you will reach your goals!

Just keep your head up and doing the best job you can. We all have set backs and it's just a test to see how much you really want it. Keep going and push through. You will make it to BLC and will pass with fling colors. They should of told you about the up coming PT test. We all know you don't work out two to three days before a test. That was a mistake in there behalf.

Sorry for the typos, I meant, of course, if you'd prefer to hear more, I'd be glad to send more, if not, please just of course let !e know that as well, by all means. This tablet I'm afraid freq tends to alter what I type, and I just as often don't catch the errors before I send, unfortunately, many thanks.

I'm trying to think of how to answer you in a way that would do the most possible good. I've been out over three decades now, and miss it virtually every day, in a fashion and to an extent that is extremely difficult for me to articulate. I've been told on here many times, by many on here, that I can be long winded, exceptionally so, and have no desire to be so in this instance. What you said made me reflect considerably on all I'd gone through, a great deal in fact. There are many suggestions I could possibly give you that immediately occur to me, however, in this instance, in genuinely think I should ask you for more info, so far as you might care to say, so I might possibly give you what advice I can, so far as possible. So, to start: if you can, take the time on here, and elaborate some more, so far as you can. Are you in school at all part time? Do you take coursework either on your installation, or off of it at all? If so, what major, and with what goal or goals? Are you trying for a degree, and, if so, which, and what level? Assocs? Bach? Next, what are your hobbies? What interests you? What aside from your work genuinely motivates you? Do you want to go further in any clinical field? Would you prefer to change fields, perhaps? If so, to which, and for what motivating reason or reasons? Next, what physical activity or activities are you engaged in outside of normal PT? Do you do any martial arts, perhaps? Do any of them genuinely interest you? For example, I've been doing aikido off and on for about 20 yrs now, and also just started getting involved with iaido, as well. You might care to look at those, they're extremely complex, both of them, as well as exceptionally aerobically fatiguing. Next, biking, I've always loved it, I'd very strongly recommend it, to vary the theme, physically, as well. Look up, for aikido, the US aikido federation, the acronym is USAF, I'm obv not speaking of the air force, of course. There's a group on here for it, I've seen it, try looking at it. Go on YouTube and look up both aikido as well as iaido. The US aikido federation has dojos virtually all over the US, and around the world, there's also the Birankai aikido group as well. Iaido is different, it's a precision form of Japanese swordsmanship, that actually takes considerable patience to master, I only just started that, using the wooden swords for now. If aikido or iaido aren't to your taste, find one of the others, whichever one interests you, kendo, karate, tae kwan do, jujitsu, judo, whichever one you please, MMA, even, I've seen YouTube videos about the army combatives program, the USMC MCMAP, all of the various other athletic possibilities the svcs offer if you want to take advantage of them, as possible sources of motivation. I'm going to send this as the tablet I'm using tends to be rather temperamental and I don't want to lose what I've typed this far, I'll try to send more after this, as well, if you like. Digest this first, and tell me if you'd care to hear more. I obv don't want to overwhelm you, as I've been told I often tend to do on here, albeit unintentionally, of course. So, give me feedback, if I'm overwhelming you, tell me. If you'd prefer to meet hear anymore, tell me that as well. If you'd prefer I change focus somewhat, tell me in which direction, and I'll try to change as you'd prefer. If you'd want to give me more detail, I only ask that you just please try to be as highly detailed and specific as possible, I often see on here with others who ask such questions as yours, that, frequently, I'd be eager to know more, to be able to suggest p more, that's all I'm trying to say. So, the more info you think you can give, the more I and others on here might possibly be able to suggest, of course. I hope that helps at least somewhat, I'd be most eager to hear more, whenever might possibly be convenient, many thanks.