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The 3 Easy And Simple Tips To Motivate Yourself

December 16th, 2011

A lot of times, it is not that you do not know what you want to accomplish in your life, it is that you do not have the energy and the motivation to do what is necessary to accomplish what you want. You know that you have to read more books and do more research; you know that you need to study the market, you know that you have to make more cold calls, but you just did not do it.

i don't stop when i'm tired. i stop when i'm doneAnd the reason is that you do not have the drive to do it. When talking about drive and motivation, everyone will have the same problem. We are all human beings and we will feel tired and down from time to time. The key is to learn how to manage it and get through it.

Every one of us will feel like no lethargic and no energy to do what we supposed to do. First, we are not committed enough to our dreams and our goals. If we are 100% committed, we will do whatever it takes as if our lives are dependent on our success. Just like if I point a gun on your head, you will do whatever as I ask you to. When you have this kind of commitment, you will do whatever it takes regardless of whether you have the drive and motivation.

Besides that, we are human and we will feel down some times. Come on, even computers will have down time. We will fall sick and have no energy to move on. This is a very normal issue that every one of us will face in the future.

Other than that, it is because we are not passionate enough with what we supposed to do. When you are truly passionate with what you want to do, you will do it even if you feel tired. Just like playing golf. If you are passionate with it, you will wake up at 6am in the morning and get to the golf course even if it is cold out there.

These are the 3 main factors that will either provide us with the motivation and drive, or will keep us from taking action to achieve our goals. So how are we going to deal with the lack of motivation?

The 3 Easy And Simple Tips To Keep You Motivated

1. Read motivational and self-help books, or listen to the audio or watch the movie clips. This is very easy to do and easy to accomplish. It is self-explanatory and I do not have to discuss much about it here. Whenever you read a story about how a normal person who has gone through all the difficult times, but still able to make it through and create success in his life, you will feel motivated because you imagine that you are doing the same and achieving the same results.

This is why reading books, listening to audio or watching motivational clips can drive us. Those inspiring stories and words are actually describing us and make us feel like we are in their position.

So make sure you spend some time into reading these great materials everyday. You can spend 30 minutes or more to read books if you want to. After a few years, you will see the changes that this habit can bring you.

2. Take your time and talk to someone who shares the same dreams like yours and someone who is more successful than you. It is not to say that you cannot talk to those who are not as successful as you, but you have to understand that most extraordinary people who have done it, they will radiate positive energy and they are able to guide you with their own experience most of the time.

You just have to make sure you talk about things that are related to your dreams that you want to achieve. If you are going to meet up to talk about gossip, your time can be better spend somewhere else. You can try this out as simple as inviting these people to have a drink. Take a tea break and share with them your dreams and ask them to share their success stories with you.

Some people do not like to read, and if you are this type of people, this second tip will work great for you. It is about finding what works for you and make good use of it. It can be as easy as discussing or talking about how you can improve your sales with your colleagues or your sales team. You can also share your dreams with your close friends that you think will support and give you energy. However, make sure you do not share with those who will look down on your dreams and pull you down. You can choose to talk other topics with them, but not your dreams.

This second tip is very easy to implement. Most people are using it everyday, whether they are using it to inspire and motivate themselves to achieve what they want is another story. This technique is a double edged sword. So use it wisely and you will get energy from someone who is on the same boat.

3. Just do it. Yes, just do it mechanically without putting in any thought into your mind. Do not think about it and just do it like a robot. Once you get it started, you will feel the momentum coming and you will have the drive to continue to do it.

This is a very effective strategy and is guarantee working as long as you work on it. It is difficult to make cold calls, but if you can do it mechanically without thinking about it, after a few calls, you will feel that the energy comes to you and you will have the motivation to keep on calling. The same goes for every other action. You just have to initiate it and you will see the momentum bring out the energy.

These are the 3 simple tactics that you can try out anytime and at anywhere you want. You just have to try them and you will see how powerful they are.

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What Really Matter And Motivate You

October 12th, 2011

Everyone knows that motivation is very important if they want to be successful in life. When you see how great people are able to accomplish outstanding results in their lives, most likely an image of someone who has a strong drive and are always ‘on the run’ will come into picture in your mind.

Find out what motivates youWe all know that you need to have a lot of drive and consistent energy in order to take action and move toward the direction that you want in life. Thus, finding out what actually motivates you will become a crucial task.

When you know what are the things that are motivating and driving you, you can then put them into your vision board, set them as goals and make use of them to energize you to take massive action.

So what really matter and motivate you?

Well, there are many things that can motivate and drive you. It can be money, fame and power, materials such as cars and big houses, pride, the feeling of hate to lose, your passion, the feeling of satisfaction, charity and helping others, and many more.

I do not know what drive you. You need to ask yourself and find it within you. We all have different things that will motivate us. For some people, it is for the money. They work hard and they go into business because they want to make a lot of money.

However, money usually is not the end, it is a mean to an end. For example, what you really want is not money. What you are looking for could be the feeling of satisfaction or the feeling of proving to your parents that you can do it.

Just like Donald Trump, for him, money is just the score of the game. What really motivates him is his passion in making big real estate deals and the feeling of winning in closing those deals.

Some people think that what they are looking for is money. But after they make all the money, they still feel lack in them. It is not the money that is motivating them. You need to find out what really drive you so that you can make use of this energy to keep you going in your life.

You have to understand that out of so many people who want to be successful in their lives, only a small portion of them actually achieve what they set to achieve. Why is this so?

The answer is that most people lack the drive to take action. Almost everyone wants to be financially independent, but majority of them fail to accomplish this aim because they do not have the motivation to earn the money, save and invest.

This is why knowing what really motivates you is a very important task here. If you know that you are working so hard to achieve what you want because you want to prove it to your dad that you can do it, I suggest that you put a picture of you and your dad in your vision board and let this picture be the fuel and drive you in your journey.

Knowing what drives you can also help you in clearing all the clouds in you and gives you a sense of peacefulness and passion. This is what is happening to most people out there. They are working on a daily basis, and if they do not like what they are doing, they will feel hatred with their work. As a result, they feel stress and always complain about their work.

Do not let this happen to you. When you are clear with what you want to do and what you love to do, you will never complain about your work. This is exactly the same as finding out what motivates you. When you know what are the hot buttons that can turn you on, you will be in control and are able to turn on the button at any moment you wish!

This is how powerful it can be when you know what really drive you. You will feel the energy flow in you and the fire within you. You will want to take action and desire for success. By then, you will have no problem taking action and nothing can actually stop you.

So take your time to discover what you really want and make is really motivating you toward the goals that you set. Why do you set those goals? What will you get from achieving them? Why do you want to achieve those goals in the first place?

If you can answer those questions, you will have a clue about what you really want and you will know what your ‘hot button’ is.

Look at all those great people who accomplished amazing results in their lives. They always have the drive and are always ‘hot’. They seem to have all the energy to wake up early in the morning and take action until later of the day. They can even sacrifice holidays to work on their dreams and their goals. Can you do this?

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How To Pump Up Yourself In An Instant

June 23rd, 2011

Ever feel down and moody and you just do not want to do anything? You know you have dreams to pursue and you have goals to accomplish, however, you just feel like no energy and you do not want to take action. Do you ever feel this way before? Do you want to know how you can get yourself pump up in an instant?

Well, if you answer yes, continue to read on because I’m going to share with you one of the most powerful ways how you can do so. In fact, it is the easiest and fastest way to make you motivated and up again.

This technique is simple and you probably have used it before, just that you did not realize about it. So what is this powerful and effective technique?

It is this – using pump up music or songs!

I believe that you have the experience when you listen to a pump up song, you feel pump up right away and you feel motivated. Do you have this experience before?

Or have you ever felt sudden sadness because you hear a sad song that triggers your emotion at that time?

I bet you have these experiences before. This simply proves that songs or music can actually help you determine your state by focusing your thoughts in your mind. When you watch a movie and scene is very touching, in the same time, a music played during the scene, you will link that music with a very touching state.

After some time even if you are not watching that movie anymore, but when that music plays and you hear it, you will instantly connect to that touching state again. This is all because your subconscious has linked the music with the touching emotion. And guess what you can do with this? You can actually link motivation with pump up music and songs.

Let me prove to you how you can get pumped up within seconds. Go through the video below and tell me how you feel after you listen to it…

So how do you feel? Do you feel pump up? Do you follow the beat and move your body posture as well? The majority of people will feel pump up after going through the video and listen to that song above. The reason is because they have linked this song with very strong motivation emotion. And in the same time, the beat and the sound of the instruments help too.

When you listen to fast pace songs, you will actually get more energy. And when you listen to slow pace songs, you will feel less energetic, but with more emotion.

It actually depends on what kind of music and songs you are listening to. The main key here is not about what songs or music; it is about how you can use songs and music to pump up.

For example, try to listen to the first 2 minutes of this music below…

How do you feel? If you have never watched the movie, Pearl Harbor before, the music can mean nothing to you. Highly likely, your mind will search for similar music and try to relate this music to any state you are in. However, if you have watched the movie before, I believe that you will feel pump up when you hear the music.

Try to go through to the YouTube page and look at the comments there. The guy who gets the top comment says that listening to the music would make the trip to grocery store feel like a mission.

This is what I mean by pumping yourself up using music and songs. What songs or music you use is not really that important as long as it can motivate and turn you on.

There are a lot of great pump up songs and music out there. And I know that you already have your own in your mind, so why don’t you just give them a try and see what will happen?

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The Power Of Persistence

March 28th, 2010

Do you know that persistence is one of the most important keys that you will need if you want to be successful?

No matter what you want to accomplish in your life, you must be persistence in it.

Lately I came across an article from the book, Chicken Soup For The Soul. I’m so motivated by the story and I really wish to share it with you here…

It was a bleak, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she had insisted that I come see something at the top of the mountain.

So here I was, reluctantly making the two-hour journey through fog that hung like veils. By the time I saw how thick it was near the summit, I’d gone too far to turn back. Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I inched along the perilous highway.

“I’ll stay for lunch, but I’m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts,” I announced when I arrived.

“But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car,” Carolyn said. “Could we at least do that?”

“How far is it?” I asked.

“About three minutes,” she said. “I’ll drive – I’m used to it.”

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her anxiously, “I thought you said three minutes.”

She grinned. “This is a detour.”

Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out. We walked along the path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens towered over us. Gradually the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind.

Then we turned a corner – and I stopped and gasped in amazement. From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were rivers of daffodils in radiant bloom. A profusion of colour – from the palest ivory to the deepest lemon to the most vivid salmon – blazed like a carpet before us. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and spilled gold down the mountainside.

At the centre cascaded a waterfall of purple hyacinths. Here and there were coral-coloured tulips. And as if this bonanza was not enough, western bluebirds frolicked over the heads of the daffodils, their magenta breasts and sapphire wings like a flitter of jewels.

A riot of questions filled my mind, Who created such beauty? Why? How?

As we approached the home that stood in the centre of the property, we saw a sign, “Answers to the questions I know you are asking.”

The first answer was: “One woman – two hands, two feet and very little brain.”

The second was: “One at a time.”

The third: “Started in 1958.”

As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen I could scarcely speak. “She changed the world,” I finally said, “one bulb at a time. She started almost forty years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she kept at it.”

The wonder of it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a vision and worked at it, just a little bit everyday, what might I have accomplished?”

Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “Better yet, start today.”

This story has the title “One At A Time” and it is written by Jaroldeen Edwards.

How do you feel? Inspired and motivated?

I don’t know about you, but after I read this story above from the book, I’m feeling so motivated. And the principle taught in this story is so true.

No matter who you are, you can be successful and achieve all your dreams if you persist long enough.

The journey to success starts with one simple step. And it is the step that you take each and everyday that will responsible for the results you will be getting.

The sad news is, most people are lazy and they will never think about their future. Only if you are willing to do the work just for a little each day, over time, all the small actions that you took will accumulate and change your life.

Success is not about getting big results or big achievement, it is about the process of taking one small step at a time. And eventually you will reach your goals and achieve your dreams.

I hope you understand the simple principle in this article today. Let me know what you think about the story above, leave your comments.

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Instant Motivation Technique That Never Fail

November 26th, 2008

Instant Motivation TechniqueAs you might already know, if you fail to achieve something that you want in your life, it is because that you’re not taking the right action that brings you toward your goals.

It is either you take the wrong action and lead to the wrong results, or it is because you’re not doing anything at all. If you take action but fail to achieve your goals, it is because you’re using the wrong strategies, change your strategies and keep on trying until you achieve your goals.

While if you’re not doing anything and you’re just sitting right there waiting for money to fall from the sky, there is one thing that you can do to drive yourself up and get in excited state again.

And that is what I’m going to share with you today. I’m going to share with you the instant motivation technique that you can use the moment you’re down. After you use this instant motivation technique, you’ll get excited, back to your peak state and ready to take massive action.

#1 Common Reason People Fail To Achieve What They Want In Their Life

One of the reasons most people fail to achieve what they want in their life is this, the lack of action. Most people just dream about what they want and wish that their dreams will come true someday. But you know it very well that if you’re not doing anything, nothing will ever come true.

And the reason people are not taking action is because that they are not in the motivated state. Did you notice that sometimes when you’re motivated, you get more things done? This is why you need motivation and drive to propel you into taking massive of action.

And this is also the reason I come up with this post, to share with you this instant motivation technique. If you use this technique correctly, I believe that you’ll be able to drive yourself into your peak performance state again and so you’ll be able to get more things done.

The main key here is to get you motivated so that you will take massive of action. Remember what I always say? “Success is about getting things done“.

Let’s discover this technique now…

Instant Motivation Technique

Actually, this technique is a common technique. I believe that you’ve used it in your life before, just that you did not realize that you’re actually using this technique.

Well, let me ask you this question, why do you feel motivated some of the time? For example, if one of your dream is to buy a luxury bungalow by the sea, and when you hear that one of your friends have just bought this kind of house, will you feel motivated? Most probably. Maybe you’ll tell yourself, “I’m going to buy it too”. So you end up feeling a little bit excited but it is not enough to get you 100% motivated.

But what if that friend of yours suddenly calls and invite you over to his new bungalow and he would like to share with you how he ended up buying that house? What do you feel? You’ll feel even more excited and you’ll boost up the level of motivation.

Let me show you another example. If one of your dreams is to own a BMW, then one day, when you’re walking in a shopping mall, suddenly you see that there is an automobile show event and there is a BMW that you always wanted there. So you walk there and have a look at that car. The salesman then tells you to have a seat and feel the feeling of actually driving it. Do you think that this will motivates you to get a BMW? Of course it will.

The question now I would like to ask is, what triggers that motivation force?

It is the things in your goals or in your dreams that you can see, smell, feel, touch, hear or taste that motivates you. Therefore, you can simply use this as an instant motivation technique.

What You Can Do With This?

What you can do to motivate you with this is that, for instance, you can write down on a piece of paper of what you want to achieve or own or buy in your life. And then keep this paper close with you every single day. When you’re down, this paper will be the savior.

Take out this piece of paper and read aloud when you’re down, and see what happens.

Of course, this is just an example of how you can make use of this technique. There are still many ways you can trigger your peak state. Such as, if there is a key chain that has a picture of your dream car on it, and the moment you look at it you’ll feel motivated, it can be used when you’re down as well.

The key to make this technique a success is to make it as tangible as possible. It is even better if you can include your 5 senses into it at the same time. The level of motivation is higher when you see and hear something that motivates in the same time than when you are just seeing or just hearing something that motivates you.

One of the most powerful techniques that I shared in my previous post is this, The Power of Anchoring. It uses the same technique, just that you in anchoring, you create your own ‘pattern’ or ‘style’ to motivate you.

I urge you to read it if you are looking for instant motivation technique. It works and it works wonder. So head over and read the post now.

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