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?

Often, we get influenced by other people easily.  We go with the flow, do what the society dictates or believe on what was already set on our minds.  It would be of great advantage if we are influenced positively.  But there are instances that we are influenced with the negative one.  Here’s an inspiring quote from Oprah:

“Surround yourself only with people who will lift you higher”

- Oprah Winfrey

If you are surrounded by people with negative outlook in life, you’ll be more likely to be influenced by them.  Surround yourself with positive people.  Those who believe in you, believe in themselves, motivated people, those who sees your strength instead of your weaknesses, and especially those with the positive aura.  If you are surrounded with these people, you will become more positive that will lead you to success.

The “what if” question is sometimes what makes us fail.  It hinders us from trying things out and develops fear in us.  We usually think of the negative result that might happen.  Here are some examples”

• What if I fail?
• What if I don’t do it right?
• What if I don’t finish on time?
• What if I can’t do it?

Those are just few of what we usually think if have to do something to achieve our dreams.  We always have fear.  But we should realize that if we don’t do anything, we will never know the answer to those “what if” questions.  Those questions will only discourage us from trying things out.  Remember that by not trying to do it, we already failed.  So why not think of the positive “what if?”  Let’s try these:

• What if I succeed? - this will help us envision success that will motivate us to do it.
• What if I can actually do it right?  - this way, we will believe on our own strength.
• What if I start it now? - this will give us the energy to start achieving our goals or dreams.
• What if I’ll try to do it? - this will help us get motivated to work on our goals.

Here are the top 7 motivation articles I found today on blogs around the internet. Check out these inspirational and educational blog posts.

1.  A great post on how to ensure you achieve your goals from Phil Newton.

http://www.philnewton.net/blog/2006/06/how-to-ensure-you-achieve-your-goals/

2. If you want to get motivated in losing weight, use your brain.  Here’s a great post about it from The Fitshack blog.

http://www.thefitshack.com/2007/04/03/how-to-use-your-brain-to-lose-weight/

3. Succeed.  From the title itself, you’d get more interested with this post from Dominica Weekly blog.

http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/succeed/

4.  Herman Najoli has this interesting post about Stimulating the Creativity Spark within you.

http://hermanjnajoli.com/2007/09/29/stimulating-the-creativity-spark-within-you/

5. The Secret that Motivates and Provokes Thought, a motivating post from Donna Brown.

http://blog.cedarcitychamber.com/?p=22

6.  Development, Transformation, and Evolution.  Good ideas from Jason McLain.

http://www.evolutionaryawareness.com/blog/2005/12/30/development-transformation-and-evolution/

7. Beth’s weekly simplicity tips are truly helpful.

http://www.mysimplerlife.com/blog/?p=1053

If you think that the law of attraction is not effective on you, think of the reason why.  The law of attraction, as what I have posted here before, is about being positive.  But sometimes, we may not realize that we also have to be more aggressive.  We must not just think that we can achieve our dreams or goals to be positive.  But we must also believe that we can achieve it.

Being positive is not only about thinking or believing.  You must also strive to achieve your dreams or goals.  When you say that you will be able to finish your task in time, it helps to believe in that.  But you also have to do continue doing it so that you can really finish it in time.  Thinking and believing that you can finish it in time is what helps you to stay motivated.

Some may think that you just have to think and believe of something for it to happen.  Yes it will but you must be doing the process.  The law of attraction only helps you to achieve your dreams or goals.  Its not the one who makes it possible, but you.  It gives you hope and motivation.  It also helps in making you more aggressive and confident in achieving your goals and dreams.

Here are the top 7 motivation articles I found today on blogs around the internet. Check out these inspirational and educational blog posts.

1. Lilburnplumbing Blog has got a number of good posts for overcoming procrastination.

http://www.lilburnplumbing.com/category/overcoming-procrastination-blog

2. Success and Motivation are well discussed in Blog Maverick.

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2004/05/25/success-and-motivation-p4/

3.  The Motivation Emergency blog has listed 5 thought-provoking blogs that are truly motivating.

http://motivacionplus.com.ar/blog2/?p=35

4. A Motivating Example from Ben Laurie is just so inspiring.

http://www.links.org/?p=246

5. Indeed an awesome Quote about Motivating People from Conversation at the Edge blog.

http://conversationattheedge.com/2007/10/30/quote-about-motivating-people/

6. Say No to Negativity!  A cool post from asdfing blog.

http://www.asdfing.com/say-no-to-negativity/

7. Learn the Power of Positive Thinking from Just Write blog.  Its truly amazing.

http://webaccessibility.biz/blog/?p=32

Being too serious can drive you crazy.  Its what I’ve read from tipsforsuccess.org on the article about seriousness.  Maybe we haven’t noticed it sometimes that we are too serious and preoccupied of our job or tasks that we have overlooked some areas in our life.  We may have even forgotten to smile at times.  I have seen in movies or even in tv programs.  There are situations mostly of parents and child that the parents are too busy earning for money that they have not much time for their children; or that they have been to serious over something that their loved ones are affected.  They become unapproachable, irritable, and the likes.

Being too serious can cause stress, anxiety, worries and failure.  Success comes with a lot of factors and being too serious over just one factor, you might overlook the others.  We need to smile at times, laugh a little, and have a break.  This will help us overcome stress from work so that we can handle our problems or pressures in a light manner.  It is easier to think when we are not under stressed and do our jobs well.

The whole point of this is not trying to say that we should not treat our work or other things seriously but we just need to lighten up ourselves.  We need to lighten up our mind so that we can function well.  There is nothing wrong if a top executive of a company joins his/her employees to a one night of fun.  If doing it is too much already, well, a simple smile under a load of pressure can lighten up not only their feelings but yours as well.

Here are the top 7 motivation articles I found today on blogs around the internet. Check out these inspirational and educational blog posts.

1. I have been to Ian’s Messy Desk blog and found 6 ways to build self-esteem that could your self-motivation everyday.

http://www.ismckenzie.com/12/17/6-ways-to-build-self-esteem/

2. Teaching myself to teach: an inspiring post that makes you realize the value of motivation in work.

http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=973

3. A great post that speaks about The Secret. It has a lot of motivating ideas that could help you become a more positive person and would lead you to success.

http://www.speakthesecret.com/?p=3

4. The Abundance Attraction Law blog is amazing. I like this certain post that provides you an A-Z guide in finding your motivation.

http://www.abundanceattractionlaw.com/2007/05/17/motivation/finding-motivation-a-to-z-guide/25

5. Have you heard of the 3D effect? I just learned about it from The Development Compass blog. It’s about stress and motivation where 3D means De-stress Delete and Develop.

http://www.thedevelopmentcompass.com/blog/2007/09/11/the-3d-effect/

6. Glenn Shepard talks about his personal stuff and how motivation works for him and even for others.

http://glennshepard.com/blog/?p=519

7. The Glory in Life blog has provided the critical success clues that could really help us in achieving our goals.

http://gloryinlife.com/success/10-critical-success-clues/