Motivation to Success :: Reach Your Potential Maximum

by : Jim Rohn

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn’t let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

“No” puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me?  What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

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“If you see your path laid out in front of you — Step one, Step two, Step three — you only know one thing… it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else’s path. That is why you see it so clearly.”
– Joseph Campbell

What? No one to follow? Now that’s a scary thought!

And yet, that’s what life asks each of us to do – to chart our own path. We are each unique. We’re told our uniqueness is our gift to the world. And so why would we even want to follow in someone else’s footsteps?

Can we trust ourselves to carve our own trail?

“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.”
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”
– Dan Millman

How do we conquer fear? With action. Millman says that action is the ONLY way to move through fear.

Fear aims to stop us in our tracks. When we step forward anyway, our anxiety eases. We begin to pay attention to what’s actually going on instead of being trapped in fearful speculation. When we’ve done it once, we can do it again. And again. And again.

“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”
– Brendan Francis

By Susan Velez

Motivation is the drive to want to succeed in everything you do. Without it you will never succeed in life; you will surely fail in every venture you set out in. It is not something we are born with you can learn how to develop motivation so that you can succeed in life.

Motivation is the key to success; after all it is the characteristic that drives you into action. Without action you will never accomplish anything. Action is required to make things happen. If you expect something to happen without action and motivation; then you are just dreaming and nothing is ever going to change in your life.

One of the best ways to develop your motivation level is to utilize positive affirmations and begin telling yourself that you have the the desire and drive to work towards your goals everyday. Utilize the affirmations on a daily basis; as you do this you will begin to influence your subconscious to make it a reality. You will be surprised at how your subconscious will become brainwashed and your belief about your being able to be do have anything will grow. You will notice yourself building a burning desire to make your goals a reality. Without this desire you will stop working towards your goals at the first sign of adversity.

Have you ever worked towards your goals and noticed yourself becoming discouraged before you reach them. If you have set goals for yourself and have them written out yet have not taken any action to make them a reality; today is the day to begin working towards them. Remember you create your life the way you want it to be. If things are not going exactly the way you would like it to; you have the power to begin changing it. However without the motivation to begin taking steps towards improving any area of your life; things will remain the same.

If your goal is to make more money you have to have the motivation of why you want to make more money. Ask yourself “why do you want to make more money?” Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Maybe you are tired of working long hours and not being able to purchase the things you would like to have. Whatever the reason you have, are the reasons you will need to build the motivation to keep working towards your goals. You must have a reason of why you want to improve something in your life. If you are content with the way things are; then you will never be able to overcome any adversities that come your way.

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‘Doc…I got this cough.’
‘Is it a light cough?’
‘No Doc it is a deep hacking cough like this….KUUH…KUUH’

‘Okay, anything else?’
‘Yeah, I got the shivers and this red bumpy rash.’
‘Oh, well you have got the jungle hemoglobin neuro-cardio virus. Take these pills for two weeks and you will be as good as new.’

Isn’t it amazing how a doctor can listen to the symptoms and then accurately diagnose what is ailing you? Well, if you are in sales you should be able to do the same. Listen to what your customers are telling you and it will tell you where you are going wrong in your presentation.

I recently heard a speaker say, ‘Yeah, I didn’t sell but one package of CDs – the owner stood up and said he was going to buy one package of CDs for the office library and everyone could share.’ The speaker then shook his head as if there was nothing he could have done to sell the group. I never heard that speaker’s sales pitch; however, I know exactly what he did wrong by listening to the symptoms. In his sales pitch, he sold the value of his products, which he should have done – however, he did not pitch the value of building your own personal development library. If he would have closed this way, the owner would have never of stood up and said he would buy one for the group to share because he would have been contradicting the value of your own personal library that was just discussed.
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“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.”

– Mary Manin Morrissey

Journaling is a great way to release and let go. To get things off your chest. Our minds are our own worst enemies. The same thoughts go round and round in the same old ways and keep us stuck.

If something bothers you, write about it. Get it out so you can see it from a different perspective. Let it out. Let it go.

Owning and healing your pressure cooker is an important step in claiming your power, building your esteem and making your stand.

“In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.”

– Swami Brahmanada

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

– Sigmund Freud

Why is this so?

Young children possess what Zen calls ‘beginner’s mind.’ They are awed and fascinated with the wonder of the world, open to discovering and experiencing new things. Anything is possible. Life is a great adventure.

For almost all of us, the systems that ‘educate’ us to be adults stifle our natural joy and curiosity. We lose touch with our innate appreciation of life. We forget how to dream.

The blessing is that with attention, patience and love, we can reawaken our sense of wonder. We can again dance with life.

“The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.”

– Grace Llewellyn