Be more effective at what you do by pushing your limits

Set high goals
If you set higher goals with high hope, you’ll find a way to work hard and attain them.

Keep hope alive
Hope is more powerful than you think. Hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be. People with high levels of hope share certain traits, among them being able to motivate themselves, feeling resourceful enough to find ways to accomplish their objectives, reassuring themselves when in a tight spot that things will get better, being flexible enough to find different ways to get to their goals or to switch goals if one becomes impossible, and having the sense to break down a formidable task into smaller, manageable pieces.

Stay optimistic
Optimism along with hope make you more likely to make the best use of whatever skills you may have—or to do what it takes to develop them. So take setbacks or failures as teachings. Do not think that you are not enough for this. Think about how to keep going. Or change your path if needed.

Focus sharp attention on the task at hand
A highly concentrated state is the essence of flow. Having deep concentration can require considerable effort to get calm and focused enough to begin the task—this first step takes some discipline. But once focus starts to lock in, it takes on a force of its own, both offering relief from emotional turbulence and making the task effortless.

Push your limit just a bit
Finding the spot between a “too easy” and “incredibly hard” state of doing something—sport, art, music, task, work—can lead you to a flow state quickly.