Get Motivated Stay Motivated

Achieving our goals is not always easy. Sometimes we hit obstacles along the way that, at first glance seem like failure. Or maybe we feel we are not achieving our goals fast enough. The reality is that, no matter what our life journey is, life does go on around us, and at times, makes progress seem a little slower. During those times the successful person maintains focus and perseveres in the direction of his goal. Here are some tips that the successful person uses to stay motivated and accomplish what he or she wants.

One way the successful person stays motivated by maintaining balance. The successful person maintains balance in their emotions at every life challenge. When we are in balance we are happy and well-rounded. We react sensibly to all that is going on around us. This balance brings us happiness and happiness motivates us to wake up the next day.

When things don’t seem to be going in the direction you want, re-assess the positives. This means, find those things you did during the day that were positive, no matter how insignificant you think those things might be, whether that is opening a door for someone else, paying that nagging bill, helping an old lady across the street, or mowing the grass. It doesn’t matter how small the positive thing is; what is important is the fact you did something that moved you forward in life and closer to your goals. Focus on the good parts of your day, especially when experiencing the feelings of failure. A large part of staying motivated is focusing on the accomplishments you had. If you focus on failure you will lose motivational energy.

We all fail at one thing or another. Not one of us is perfect, so inevitably we all do experience failure at some points in our lives. However, successful people don’t dwell on the failures they inevitably have; they don’t imagine themselves as failures. Maybe this or that venture they attempted did fail. But when you see yourself personally as a failure and you internalize this, you will most certainly lose motivation. If you want to stay motivated despite failure then do not take failure personally. Failure happens to us all!

Instead, imagine yourself as being successful. Visualize your goals; see them in your mind. Watch yourself accomplish those goals. Make a mental movie of it! Make it as detailed as you like. The more detail the better. By doing this you are reinforcing your mental processing which will certainly contribute to your motivation.

Oftentimes, after hitting those moments of failure, we tend to become absorbed in the “what ifs”. Reflection has lessons for us to learn, undoubtedly but to mull over failure for too long can become a mental cobweb. It can trap you and stop you moving forward.

A very important point is this - the feeling of failure is a choice against oneself and nothing more! Failure is a situational word, not a personal one, unless of course you make that choice. When you see yourself, personally, as a failure you are compromising your motivation. When your motivation is compromised, accomplishing your goals becomes even more difficult.

A key factor to staying motivated is to see failure as an opportunity. It could be an opportunity to learn a new skill or an opportunity to try something which you had not expected before. Most of the time when failure knocks on our door it is to teach us something about ourselves, the situation, and those around us. An apparent failure which forces us to take a path we did not intend can actually lead to great happiness. Failure is actually there to help us, if we use it right. By thinking of failure in this way, you will find motivation.

Staying focused is difficult for many of us. Some of us get side-tracked by the events of life going on around us. We allow ourselves to be pulled this way and that, sometimes not knowing where to go next. However, staying focused is primarily an issue of time allocation and programming that time. But it does take practice to make it a habit. Let’s look at some ways to stay focused until you succeed.

First and foremost, you need a set of well defined goals if you are to stay focused. It’s the key! And one way of doing that is to write down what you want to accomplish. As you’re sipping your coffee in the morning, jot down some things you want to accomplish that day.

A set of well defined goals is long-term as well as short-term. A very helpful tool to use to stay focused for the long-term is to plan ahead. This will require you to obtain and maintain some form of scheduling method. This can be done on something as simple as a paper calendar or an electronic one. The point is to start noting every appointment, every deadline, and every dinner engagement you commit yourself to.  By maintaining a means of scheduling you will firstly, become more organized, and secondly, because you are more organized, you will stay more focused. Just follow your schedule.

Sometime you may be involved in a project that appears to be overwhelming. What successful people do is break that project into smaller pieces. This strategy is well-known throughout the business world. As a matter of fact, it’s a business principle. Breaking a project down to more manageable pieces makes progress much smoother because there are fewer surprises.

Another strategy the business world utilizes is tracking. Every corporation throughout the world has some form of tracking its progress, whether that is sales, development, acquisitions, etc. Every corporation tracks its progress. You can apply this same strategy to your own success. This is another reason maintaining a written schedule is important. It can help you track progress.

As you see yourself progress keep it in mind, but don’t concentrate on it. Instead, direct your focus to the end result. Sometimes we can get caught up in the emotions of accomplishment and forget where we were going. It is a very good thing to experience the emotions of success. In fact, when we direct those emotions toward the end result they become a motivating source.

Going to bed at a decent hour and waking up early will also help you maintain focus. The body, including the mind, responds better when it receives the rest it needs. A rested body is more relaxed and a rested mind makes better decisions, and as a result, you will be able to maintain a better focus upon your goals.

Related to getting the right amount of rest is taking a moment or two in your day to enjoy some quiet time. Again, even the business world knows the importance of giving its employees a rest break. It’s more productive and production means more profit. That is why every corporation has established break times. It’s to give workers a quick rest. Utilize this same principle in the direction of your success and you will be more focused and motivated to achieve success each and every day.

And when you do accomplish major milestones toward your goal, don’t be afraid to reward yourself, whatever the reward might be. It could be as simple as cooking yourself a nice dinner as you reflect upon your success. Or it could be taking someone out to celebrate that success with you. Whatever the reward might be, enjoy it. You deserve it!

Staying enthusiastic while going for your dreams can be difficult at times. The events of life, at times, have a way of interfering with our goals and can discourage us. However, if you are to achieve your goals, remaining enthusiastic and motivated is vitally important, especially in moments of discouragement. If you lack enthusiasm, you will give up, and your dreams will come to nothing.

Enthusiasm originates from the Greek word ‘enthousiasmos’, which basically means to be inspired. Enthusiasm is inspiration and is a powerful way to create momentum and motivation. Enthusiasm can generate the energy and willpower to help us accomplish those things in life we have set out to do. Enthusiasm also can create within us a feeling of well-being and happiness.

Throughout our lives we are constantly bombarded with messages of fear, tragedy, and pessimism, especially from the media.  Newspapers and periodicals abound with bad news.
Moreover, the negative people around us discourage us even further. With so much of it around us we have a tendency to adapt that input into our own ways of thinking, allowing this negativity to taint our own thoughts and behaviors.

Enthusiasm is a skill that is learned like any other skill. Enthusiasm is seldom a natural development, but rather a result of conscious effort. Enthusiasm takes practice and with continual exercise you can stay excited and motivated to accomplish your goals, even when unfortunate circumstances do arise. But how do we create enthusiasm within ourselves?

First and foremost you must become passionate about your life and your goals. Most people can become temporarily excited about practically anything, but to maintain a sustained enthusiasm can only be achieved by becoming passionate about something. When we talk about passion we are taking about having a deep care for something. If you are not interested and don’t care about something you will not be able to create enthusiasm for it.

All successful people are passionate about something and they spend minimal amounts of time on things they have no passion for. Don’t waste your valuable time pursuing things you are not passionate about. You will feel little satisfaction from those endeavors and then you will wonder why your motivation is diminishing. It’s because your energy is being applied in the wrong direction. Passion is the fuel of enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm and energy are very closely related. If you come home tired from a hard day’s work you are likely not be too enthused or excited. Maintaining a high energy level will help you be more enthused. And the more enthusiasm you have the more energy you are likely to have. Both enthusiasm and energy work hand in hand. You can’t have one without having the other. Proper diet and the right amount of rest can help you maintain a higher energy level, which of course will increase your enthusiasm.

Maintaining enthusiasm also requires you to build motivation. Motivation is intrinsically related to energy. Energy is required to move and motivation generates movement. This means taking action, moving, and doing something toward accomplishing your goals, even when you might not be so enthused. By tapping into motivation you will become enthused. If you just sit around and wait for life to come to you, you will eventually lose energy and then motivation becomes nothing more than something you talk about. Moreover, when you lose motivation you also run the risk of losing passion.

You can create enthusiasm just by acting enthused. You don’t necessarily have to have an external stimulus to create enthusiasm within yourself. In fact, enthusiasm is something that comes from within and can be encouraged to develop just by the practice of acting enthused and doing something positive toward your goals.

Quitters never win and winners never quit.

Quit true.  There the way to success is not that easy but rather difficult.  Personally, I’d enjoy success more if I’ve experienced difficulties.  Even just with simple little goals in life.  There are sometimes hindrances to the things we want.  To pursue this goal, put in mind that it is not yet the right time for you.  With this, I even become more motivated with this goal because I didn’t acquire it that easily.  This is because I am afraid of things that I easily acquire and that it might also be gone easily.  The more I struggle to achieve that goal, the more I become motivated.

Quitting can be tempting sometimes.  But don’t fall into it.  Those are just trials in your way.  When you face these situations, just smile and think of these trials as your opponents wanting you to quit.  Then you’ll be more eager to move on and continue achieving your goals.
So if you want to achieve a certain goal or dream in life, be sure not to quit.  Once you quit, its the end of it.  You’ll never win if you quit.  Those failures are not failures itself.  Those are just test to your strength and perseverance over your goal.  Think of it as normal things in your way to success.   For me, it would be better to lose a game than quit on it.  Being named as a “Quitter” is something shameful.

Lack of motivation is a big hindrance in accomplishing our goals or in reaching our dreams.  It makes us feel hopeless and even weak, not knowing how to get going with things.  Worse is you quit with your goals.

Knowing how it feels like to lack motivation, be kind enough to help others get motivated.  Not that you’ll really dig in to their lives and help them with their goals.  Just have them influenced with your positive attitude or mood.  You can write about your success stories and share it with others.  One good way is through a blog where it is easily accessed by people around the world.  In talking with people or having quick discussion with a friend, be positive always.  Especially when giving advices, be in the positive tone so that they may be enlightened or hopeful with their goals or dreams.  Share your ideas that might keep them motivated.
You are blessed if you feel positive and motivated, so share it with others.  Helping others to have motivation will also keep you motivated.  Like with this blog,  I  get new ideas  about motivation.   Writing about motivation, goal setting, success, and  positive things in this blog keeps me a positive person as well.

Each one of us has our own perception of success.  We may see a Doctor as a successful one but maybe to that doctor he isn’t.  Success may mean getting rich to some while achievement without much wealth may mean success to others.  So how does this perception of success help us?
Knowing what you want in life gives you a sense of direction.  Envisioning yourself a successful person will give you focus.  It is important that you have a picture of success on your mind or someone else will give you a picture of success based on his own perception.  Then you will just later on realize that it is not what you really want.  Some people are influenced by their parents or the people around them with the way they see success.  If your parents, for example, are both Doctors and has proven themselves in their field, you will look up to them and make them as your inspiration and model.  Its helpful in a way because you get motivated by them.  But there are some who wants a different field but are pressured by the success that their parents or siblings has achieved so they force themselves to compete with them.

One should be brave enough to take the road to their success and not with the others.  If you get successful with your own dreams, the reward is fulfillment and real success.  You are more likely to get successful if you follow your own dreams and success.  Just remember that we all have our own meaning of success, so believe in yours.

Procrastination is such a difficult thing to avoid especially if we don’t like the task that we have to complete.  So we procrastinate and cram up when the deadline for the task is coming.  This is also true for simple tasks such as household chores.  We sweep the floor the following day instead of finishing it today.  What happens is, the floor gets dirtier and more uninviting to do the task.  The task also gets heavier.

Things have been written or advised here on how to avoid procrastination or how to overcome it.  I’ll add up another one which is to make your procrastinating hours useful for you.  When you procrastinate for a task, do something worthwhile.  We have that attitude of doing nothing when we procrastinate for a difficult task.  Instead of staying idle for hours, why not do lighter tasks to lighten your schedule.  By end of the day, you only have one task left for you to do.

Doing so will also keep you active physically or mentally.  That will help you get motivated and energized to do the task you’ve been avoiding to do.  Because sometimes laziness just gets in the way of starting your task and you just need a nudge to start doing it.  So doing a lighter task might get you energized or motivated to do a heavier one.

There are a lot of people who have a problem in waking up early.  Well, it feels good to sleep.  There are also people who are blessed enough to wake up early in the morning, some don’t even need an alarm clock.

The hardest part could be rising from your bed.  The clock has alarmed but yet, its hard to rise from bed.  Then there is the snooze as well.  Even if you have snoozed the alarm clock several times, you’re still in bed staying idly.  Maybe you need to place the clock far from your bed so that you won’t be able to put it off or snooze it easily.  But what do we benefit if we wake up so early?  A lot!

Waking up early can give you more time to do things you need to do and finish some tasks.  The early you wake up, the sooner you get things done for the day which means you will have more extra time for yourself.  Rising up few minutes after you’ve awaken will help you avoid procrastination.  You get more motivated if you wake up early.  The longer you stay in your bed awake will lose you some energy that may lead to procrastination.

All it takes is to make it a habit of yours to rise up early.  Once it has become a habit, it will be easier for you to do it.  Practice to do it everyday and you will eventually be an early riser.

Each person has his own taste or preference over things. Some persons may enjoy charitable works while others may not. But what if you are faced with something that you are not interested in and something that you think you’ll never enjoy? You may feel like a prisoner wanting to get freed of such task. Here are some pointers to help you:

• Think of the positive things about your task. For sure, you think of it in the negative aspect. Every fault that you can find about it are all in your mind already. Think of the benefits of the task and you will somehow realize that it isn’t bad after all.

• Be with people who enjoy the task. Surround yourself with people who are enthusiastic with the job. Do not spoil their enthusiasm by complaining and saying negative things about them or the job. Instead, get influenced by them.

• Enjoy being with others in the job. You may not necessarily do the job with them or talk about the job all the time. But you may enjoy their company. As you enjoy being with them, you may eventually enjoy doing the job as well.

Enjoying your job or even just the simplest task you have at home will help you get motivated and succeed with it. Instead of procrastinating over it, find ways on how to enjoy your job or task so that you will finish it on time.

I’ve been to Thrilling Heroics site and I found out the way you think about things has an impact on how you will get to succeed in life.  It listed the seventeen ways successful and wealthy people relate to money that unwealthy people don’t from T. Harv Eker’s book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth.  Here’s the list:

1. Rich people believe: “I create my life.” Poor people believe: “Life happens to me.”
2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.
6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
7. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.
11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
12. Rich people think “both.” Poor people think “either/or.”
13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income.
14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money.
16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

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If you come to think of it, all of it are true.  Unwealthy people think that because they are not rich, they don’t have the right to think big.  They separate themselves from rich people.  They may not afford some of the rich people’s activities, but surely they can think the way rich people think.  They don’t have to act rich, they just have to think rich.
Rich people have worked their way to success.  Some may have been born rich, but they were able to maintain their wealth because they work for it also.  The list above is a guide for us on how we should set our mind to success.