Motivation to Success :: Reach Your Potential Maximum

To choose your area of primary focus, ask yourself this question:  If I were to focus on improving one area of my life this year (health, finances, relationships, etc.), what single area would have the greatest overall impact?

Most of the time, you’ll find one area of your life lagging behind the others.  From a purely objective sense, the area may not be horrible, but relative to the other parts of your life, it’s the weakest link.  What part of your life do you find most lacking?  What’s holding you back?  If you could snap your fingers and guarantee a major improvement in one area of your life, what would it be?  Would you improve your finances?  Fall in love?  Get in shape?  Overcome an addiction?  Transform a relationship?  Discover your life purpose?

Here’s a sample list of areas from which you might select your primary focus.  Consider this a guide, not a comprehensive list:

• Work/Career/Business
• Financial
• Relationship
• Home & Family
• Physical Health
• Mental/Educational
• Social/Friends
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Character
• Contribution
• Fun & Adventure

For example, if you’re 50 pounds overweight, that’s a serious problem that will negatively affect many parts of your life, including your health, your career, and your relationships.  (Don’t try the denial route with me.)  Go to the gym, pick up two 25-lb dumbbells, walk around with them, and ask yourself if you really want to carry that burdensome weight 24/7 for another year.  If you made physical fitness your #1 priority for the year — and I mean #1 by your actions, not the wishful thinking version – then even if you made little or no progress in every other area of your life, it would make a huge difference, wouldn’t it?  You may not lose all the weight, but if you commit to physical fitness as your top priority, you’re certainly going to make more progress than if you don’t.  You’ll probably end the year feeling you accomplished something amazing.

“The purpose of man is in action not thought.” - Thomas Carlyle

Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am, but in an equation I came up with a few years ago and remind myself of on almost a daily basis. And when I live this equation out, it produces big results. What people don’t seem to grasp is that this equation will work for anybody! Anyone can see results in their life if they will live it out!

This little equation, when it is understood, and acted upon, is perhaps the most powerful equation there is in regard to long-term achievement and accomplishment. Yet, this is not a complex equation. In fact, it is rather simple. So what is it?

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In any field there are people who just seem to stand out. They appear to be head and shoulders above the crowd. Others in the field want to be like them. This is certainly true in network marketing. I can think of several people who are superstars in the industry. Not only are they very successful, they are just great people. They are known for their truthfulness and fairness. They are always helping others. They are courageous. They have faced rejection and rejection and overcome it through their persistence and consistency.

Have you ever thought you would enjoy their success? Well, here is a secret – Your success is as much determined by who you are as what you do. That is why it is so important to follow the three P’s.

• Practice being who you want to be.
• Perform the work that will get you where you want to go.
• Possess the lifestyle of your dreams.

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By: Matthew Hick

It’s 6 o’clock in the morning. The alarm clock is buzzing, and you’re thinking to yourself, “What’s the point in getting up this early for work?” For some of us, the motivation is simply the desire to shut off the clock that is vibrating off the nightstand. But for others, it is truly self-motivation. It is an internal alarm clock that motivates a person to make the best of his or her day.

Certainly, everyone wants to succeed in the world. Everyone wants to have a purpose, to be at the top of the corporate ladder, or to be the best he or she can be in any given area. But why do some people succeed in doing these things, and others do not? The answer is: self-motivation.

There are several factors that contribute to self-motivation. They include:

• Self-esteem
• Desire to succeed
• Will power
• Mental stability
• Family
• Life goals
• Daily activities
• Daily pleasures

All of these factors will directly affect success in a career, in academics, in playing sports, and in marriage and parenting. Whether you desire the highest position possible at your job, or graduating with a 4.0 grade point average, you need self-motivation to do it. Self-motivation drives an athlete to score the winning soccer goal, just as it drives a parent to be a good role model for a child.

Along with the desire to succeed comes mental stability. Everyone has a bad day here and there; but what self-motivates a person to continue on with the bad day? The answer is mental stability. The mind is a great force. When you put your mind to accomplishing something, you will try your best to do it. As a result, your will power is tested. Being able to stay self-motivated and focused on what is important rather than “throwing in the towel” allows you to succeed in the end. Will power, mental stability, and the desire to succeed are all the result of self-motivation.

Another factor that drives self-motivation is the family unit. Family can self-motivate an individual to be successful. An individual – especially a working spouse – will crave the family’s pride and approval. The working spouse self-motivates himself or herself simply by worrying whether or not the family is taken care of financially. The working spouse will most likely want to earn a high paycheck, and in the end provide for the family. Children often idolize their parents and will mimic what they see their parents doing. In the end self-motivation is passed on from one generation to the next, as it is an important role in family affairs.

Lastly, self-motivation is driven by daily goals and basic daily routines such as losing weight or learning how to play a sport. The simple daily pleasure of waking up to see the sun shine, to hear the birds singing, or even listening to the rain are all pleasures which can self-motivate a person to get up in the morning.

Matthew Hick is the Owner of eWebCreator.com

by Keji Giwa

Life - Question It!

If people say you can’t do it? Why and why not?

If people don’t believe in you, as long as you don’t believe them but believe in yourself and your abilities as a person, they’ll soon come to believe you and believe in you.

Why?

Because no one can change the real you and if they watch carefully, over time, they will come to see how you increase in worth the more you believe in yourself.

Thomas Edison: Proven record of achievement in experiencing too many failed attempts. His success as an inventor was based on his ability to keep trying despite his many failed attempts. Today you have the light bulb and many other inventions because of his many failed attempts.

Abraham Lincoln: His autobiography is one that had failure written all over it. If failure was a degree, he would have graduated with a first class. Yet his many failed attempts led him to be the most successful and highly influential president America ever had.

The Wright Brothers: With no college degrees, these two brothers picked up the failed idea of a man who died as a result of implementing his idea and they ran with it. They had too many failed attempts as a result. It was like deliberately taking on the curse of another. Due to their tenacious and resilient attitude towards adversity and complicated issues, they finally succeeded. Today, their success enables you and I to fly all around the world in aeroplanes.

YOU:You have probably experienced a few or too many failed attempts. You are no different from the people mentioned above and the principle remains the same even with you. Success involves learning from our many failed attempts and using our experiences to keep us from making the same mistake twice. What keeps us going? HOPE. Hope is seeing what isn’t there as if it were there and working towards getting it there.

By Caroline Jalango

Do you believe in yourself?

Are you shaky about your capabilities?

Do you constantly rely on affirmation from others about what you can or can’t do?

Even though other people might support and believe in you as you pursue your goals; a time comes in the journey of life, when you have to rise to the occasion and face life’s challenges on your own.

It is therefore very important to believe in yourself and in your ability to perform and succeed in the things you are working on.

Here is why you need to believe in yourself:

1. No one else will.
If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect anyone else to believe you? How can you convince anyone if you can’t even convince yourself? Your self-confidence and self-esteem come from a strong belief in who you are and what you stand for. It is important to remember that you are your number one supporter and fan. Believe in yourself because if you don’t…no one else will.

2. You owe it to yourself.
One of the best things you can ever do for yourself and have no regrets about is to believe in yourself. Do yourself a favor and think good things about yourself. Affirm yourself. Self belief is a great “yes” thought which will accelerate progress and productivity in your life. You are your own best friend; expect good things for yourself.

3. Life is what you make it.
Believing that you can make it happen for yourself is an important step toward creating a life that you like. You must believe that you can do whatever you set your mind to and that you will succeed. Napoleon Hill rightly said that, it takes a person half their lives to discover that life is a do it yourself project. You are responsible for the decisions you make and the actions you take. So, arm yourself with self-belief, make the right choices and make your life happen.

4. You have dreams and aspirations.
Do you have dreams and aspirations? What will happen to them if you don’t believe in yourself and in your capacity to fulfill them? If you have a passion to fulfill your dreams and aspirations, don’t let them go to waste because you lack self-belief. You have the ability to turn situations around…if only you believe!

5. Others are watching and waiting to applaud you.
It’s amazing how you gain respect in the eyes of others when you achieve the things that you truly desire. You become an inspiration to those who have been watching you from the sidelines, as you believed in yourself and in your ability to make things happen. People are waiting to hear success stories of people like you who believed in themselves and accomplished great things as a result.

Caroline coaches women, provides strategies and solutions, motivates and helps women who desperately want to strike the match that sets them ablaze to live happier, meaningful, positive, productive, improved and purpose driven lives.

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By Jim Rohn

What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition and that is within you - in every thought, in every movement, in every motivation. Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression.

Self-expression…

Isn’t self-expression really self-direction? How you think,how you move, how you motivate yourself. Ambition is a result of self-direction and self-direction is one of the six key principles necessary for building ambition.

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