Get Motivated Stay Motivated

I attended a commencement exercises for grade school yesterday.  The guest speaker has taken the pupils, and the audience as well, to a storyland and I took note of the interesting points that she said.

• Abraham Lincoln failed seven times.  Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America has failed to be elected in Congress and Senate several times.  He also even ran for vice-president and failed. But on his first attempt to ran for presidency, he succeeded.  His story was a very inspiring one.  Lincoln has been regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the United States and behind his success were failures.  He may have failed several times, but he stood up and made his way to success. His success was not only by becoming a president, but becoming a great person.
• Diligent can beat the intelligent.  If you are diligent, you are eager to get to the top.  Whereas if  you are intelligent but lack the confidence and courage, you are more likely to be defeated by the intelligent ones.
• Achievement is not measured by how many awards a person has but by how many times he stood up every time he falls.  W e are honed by our experiences to be a better person and thats the real achievement we have.

Perseverance is a very important characteristic one must possess to succeed in his goals or dreams in life. Here’s an inspiring story about Froy Candelario, an agent based in Southern California that I got from eBestAgent:

He sells way too many homes. Anywhere from 300 to 400 homes per year for the last 10 years. He doesn’t even list his listing on MLS. He sells 80% of his home by himself which means he represented both buyer and seller sides to keep all his commission. He works with only 4 staff members. He is one of the super agent in the whole country. He gets his listing with only cold calling and door knocking. Quite amazing stats. He’s net worth is estimated at upward of $100 million.

Froy’s true story is not in his real estate stats. Originally Froy is from Mexico. He and a friend decided to come to the United States, the land of opportunity to escape poverty from Mexico. They cross the border by hanging on to the underside of a train. They rode for hours, clinging to the train for their lives. They had no idea where they were and they could not let go for fear of being run over by the train. The miles clicked by and they were getting extremely tired. Finally, Froy’s friend could not hang on any longer. He let go and was crushed. Froy was devastated by the loss of his friend, but vowed to hang on. Less than five minutes later the train stopped. Froy had reached his destination. He had made it to the United States.

The lesson that Froy learned from his immigration experience is that one componen of success is being able to hang on a little bit longer than the next guy.

source: eBestAgent

I think Froy was highly motivated to succeed.  They have gone that far and it was not the time to give up.  There was no giving up, actually.  They have gone through a lot of sacrifice and it will be put to waste if they gave up.

With one’s high motivation to succeed, he can be able to hang on a little longer and persevere to go through the hardships that faces him in his struggle to achieve his goals.  It was just a matter of hanging on for a few more minutes in Froy’s case.  That few more minutes has changed Froy’s life and made him succeed.

Goal setting.  I have written about it here several times already.  Its importance, the process, and the likes.  This time, its about how it affects us.

Having dreams makes us feel inspired, that’s why we have that dreamy look sometimes in our face, right?  To dream is absolutely free.  The thing you want to have in life or something you want to happen, comes true in your dreams.  Realizing our dreams and making it into a goal makes us more hopeful although sometimes we lose hope.

When we set our goals, we have something to look forward to in life.  You wake up in the morning and start the day doing something for that goal.  The things we have set on how to achieve that goal gives more color and purpose to our life.  Life could be pretty boring without having something to look forward to – doing routine  tasks everyday.
If you haven’t started setting your goals yet, start now and do it the SMART way!

Having the internal courage, they say, will help you to become successful in life.  How?  Internal courage the ability to face yourself.  Do you hear that voice in your mind that tells you what to do?  Then, have you been into that situation that you don’t want to follow what it tells you to do?  You have to have internal courage to say “No” to that voice in your mind.  There are times when this voice tells us not to do certain things because of this and that might happen, or that it tells you you should not do it because you might fail.  Internal courage will make you face that voice and say “I will succeed”.

When we are on a dilemma, doubts, pessimistic idea towards a decision in life, that is the time we needed more of our internal courage.  The courage to tell ourself that we can do it, that we will succeed, and that it is worth trying.  Positive energy is what we need to be successful, so why should we listen to those negative things that the tiny voice in our mind tells us?  Or even with the negative things that other people tells us.  When we make decisions, we weigh the pros and cons.  But we should not get discouraged by the cons.  What we need to put in mind is that in every decisions we make, there are always pros and cons and that these things we decide on, comes only once that’s why its hard for us to decide.  But come to think of it, it only comes once, so why not do it?