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How To Stay Motivated Until You Succeed
by Peter Murphy

For a lot of us our work schedules at home and at our jobs have been a major source of complications in our lives. Our financial well being depends on our paycheck, and our mental and emotional well-being depends in part on having a well-organized life. But a few simple changes in your life can show you how to stay motivated until you succeed.

With so many demands being placed upon us, it becomes confusing as to where to place our priorities. Somewhere along the way, in the midst of all the uncertainties of our lives, we tend to lose our sense of motivation and instead choose the path of least resistance - procrastination. Here are a few tips to get your life organized so you can become motivated until you succeed.

1. For most of us, a job is our means of financial support and contributes to our physical, mental and emotional health as well, so quitting your job is not an option for most. The trick is to balance your job with your home life. This can be a challenging task but you can begin by cutting your workday to eight or nine hours a day to allow yourself more time at home. If making changes in the number of hours you work is not possible for you, try simplifying in other areas to give you more time, energy and money; that is, if you live simply, you’ll not need as much money.

2. Even taking the simplest steps can reward you with more time and less stress, such as changing your expectations of others (one less thing to worry about), dropping the call waiting feature on your telephone, and having simple holidays without much fuss or spending a lot of money.

3. Getting rid of the emotional garbage in your life such as anger, hatred, and forgiving those who need your forgiveness or mending broken relationships will help clear the way to show you how to stay motivated until you succeed by giving you back your time and energy. Decide how you want your life to be. What do you need most in your life at this moment - energy, peace, quiet, tranquility, wisdom, spiritual growth? Make a promise to yourself that you will achieve whatever you want, and then set about to make it happen.

4. Concentrate on what’s most important and prioritize your task list (this should be done both at your job and at home). A good method is to place each item on your “to do” list in its proper perspective by having three lists: “MUST Be Done,” “Should Be Done,” and “Nice Things To Do.” Once you place a value on each item you will quickly see that some things need not be done at all. In fact, the only time procrastination may pay off might be when everything on the “Nice Things To Do” list can all be marked off as unnecessary.

5. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. The sheer volume of tasks in our daily lives is enough to make us want it to “just go away.” As a result we procrastinate, thus losing our motivation. It is not a sign of incompetence or inefficiency to admit you need help. Let your co-workers or your supervisor at work know you need help. At home, even the smallest child in your family can do simple tasks.

Slow down, simplify, spend less, enjoy simple pleasures with your family that don’t cost a cent, and your life may become more beautiful, happier and fulfilling. Getting organized and ridding yourself of things that are unnecessary are the first steps of learning how to stay motivated until you succeed.

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Learn How To Overcome Procrastination At Home
by Peter Murphy

Now that you have conquered procrastination on the job because you were afraid you’d get fired, you can learn how to overcome procrastination at home. The methods are much the same, but the tasks, the environment and the people you work with are different, and these differences require a change in the way you approach the situation.

First of all, you’re not going to get fired from home, but you may suffer some consequences from disgruntled family members who have to carry your share of the workload. A worst-case scenario is that your procrastination and lack of motivation may carry over to other members of your family, resulting in absolutely nothing being done. All the disorganization and clutter in your home will most likely result in chaos and disarray to the point you have no clean clothes to wear and can’t find your books or briefcase. However, all is not lost because you can learn how to overcome procrastination at home by following a few simple suggestions.

1. Make a list of tasks that must be done daily, weekly, monthly and so on. Then think about how each task can be simplified. For example, the first thing you normally do when you get home is change into comfortable clothing. You can eliminate one task right here by hanging up your clothes when you take them off instead of waiting until bedtime, when you most likely will throw them over the back of a chair.

2. Once you have made your task list, prioritize each list. It could go something like this: (1) talk and listen to your children and/or spouse to learn about their day; (2) get dinner started (you already know what cook because previously you made menus and shopped for food; (3) make some time to talk to family members while dinner is cooking; (4) immediately after dinner clear the table and load the dishwasher instead of waiting; (5) do other necessary chores such as laundry while helping children with homework. This list is an example only; your list may be entirely different. The important thing is to get it done.

3. Prevention is the key to having less to do around the house. Put mats down around all entrances to prevent dirt from being tracked into the house, thus making vacuuming easier. Some other preventive measures you can take now to lighten your load and help you overcome procrastination at home are so simple you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of them sooner.

4. Ask family members to break all habits that result in messes, and minimize those that can’t be helped. Become aware of the messes around the house and analyze the reason for them. You can coat some surfaces with a sealant to keep them looking shiny and new and make cleaning easier. If you have surfaces that can’t be cleaned such as a wall with flat latex paint, you can repaint with a cleanable paint or cover it with a washable wallpaper. Seal off crevices and cracks that let dust and pests get into your home.

5. Other tips include avoiding high-low carpet patterns and embossed floor tile; it collects dirt and is hard to clean. Indoor-outdoor carpet also shows every piece of lint or dirt that gets on it (and it really doesn’t add much fashion to your floor anyway). Elaborately textured ceilings and walls collect dust and cobwebs and should be avoided. Other elements to avoid include unfinished wood that shows stains, dark colors on floors, furniture and countertops, and large collections that have to be moved around to clean.

With a little forethought and ingenuity, you can teach yourself and family members to simplify your lives and learn how to overcome procrastination at home.

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No matter how successful you become you still need to be able
to handle setbacks and short-term obstacles.

Otherwise your motivation will fade away to nothing.

In this article
we learn how to deal with temporary defeat…

Three Feet From Gold
by N.Hill

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of
quitting when one is overtaken by TEMPORARY DEFEAT. Every
person is guilty of this at one time or another.

An uncle of R.U.Darby was caught by the “gold fever” in the
gold-rush days, and went west to dig and grow rich. He had
never heard that ‘more gold has been mined from the
thoughts of men than has ever been taken from the earth’.
He staked his claim and went to work with pick and shovel.

After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of
the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to
the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his
footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his
relatives and a few neighbors of the ’strike’.

They got together the money for the needed machinery, and
had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to work the
mine.

The first car of ore was mined and shipped to a smelter.
The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in
Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the
debts. Then would come the big killing in profits.

Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle!
Then something happened. The vein of gold ore disappeared!
They had come to end of the rainbow and the pot of gold was
no longer there. They drilled on, desperately trying to
pick up the vein again - all to no avail.

Finally, they decided to QUIT.

They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred
dollars, and took the train back home. The junk man called
in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little
calculating. The engineer advised that the project had
failed because the owners were not familiar with “fault
lines”.

His calculations showed that the vein would be found just
three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That
is exactly where it was found!

The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine
because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving
up.

FAILURE is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and
cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when
success is almost within reach.

You are even closer to a personal breakthrough than you can
imagine. If you only knew the difference some powerful new
motivation strategies will make you would feel a chill
running up your back.

Enjoy!

Peter Murphy

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Remember. You are only three feet from gold.