Zig Ziglar is a motivational mastermind, and reminded us that motivation fades. This means that in order to stay motivated, we need a daily boost.

Whether it’s a project at work, starting a new business, or something personal like losing weight, we all need to get motivated in order to complete the task. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Try driving down the road and slamming on the breaks and see if you don’t keep going when the car stops. Better yet, don’t do that. It might be bad for your health.

Inertia can work for you, because once you get going, you’ll tend to keep going. The challenging part is to get things started (and re-started), and that’s where motivation comes in.

Below are 3 ways to get motivated, inspired, and unstuck from a rut.

Use a mantra — Choose a mantra and then use it daily to create a positive environment and get rid of the negative. In the traditional sense, a mantra is a sound or series of sounds that are repeated over and over again during meditation. But, they can be used for much more than that.

Guy Kawasaki tells us that we can replace long mission statements with mantras. Short and to the point, we can rely on mantras to calm us and give us strength.

If well chosen, mantras can also act as guiding principles for behavior. For example, Google’s “do no harm” philosophy is a mantra.

Mantras should be only a few words long at most. You can use them for meditation sessions as well as a sort of battle cry when you need strength. You can choose any mantra you like, and you can choose several of them for use in various situations.

Do something physical — Tony Robbins teaches us that when we feel a certain way, we reflect that in our bodies. Try being depressed for a moment. What happens? Your shoulders slump, your eyes immediately head toward the ground, and your head faces down. Can you feel that? As goes the mind, so goes the body.

Now, let’s try creating a different mental state using your body to your advantage. Stand up tall showing off your best posture. Put your arms straight out at your sides. Look up at the ceiling and smile. Hum out loud as you lift one foot off the floor.

Try to be depressed in that pose. If you can be depressed while smiling in that silly pose then you’re really good. Now, ask yourself what you can do physically every day to get motivated. Maybe it’s a silly pose, maybe it’s a 2 mile run, or maybe it’s yoga. Whatever it is, do something physical every day and get motivated.

Time travel — This exercise will get you motivated as fast as anything I know. We all know that hindsight is 20/20. In each and every moment, we have choices to make. I hear people say that they have no choice. This is not true. You can eat the fattening dessert or not. You can do right or you can do wrong. You always have a choice.

Sometimes we regret the choices we’ve made in the past. Often, we fool ourselves into thinking that we had no choice and won’t have a choice if similar circumstances arise again.

Try this out. Imagine your future. Think about what it’s like in your future a few years from now. Now, look back at the present moment that you’re in right now. Given the opportunity, what would you have done differently?

What can you do differently right now to make your ideal future a reality? Say it to yourself out loud. Write down your plan. Go do it now.

These are just a few of the exercises you can do on a regular basis to gain more control of your future and get yourself motivated. If you’ll just apply a few simple principles, there’s no limit to the ways you can come up with to achieve more.