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Motivation is like bathing – you need a little bit every day

Many people find that buying books, audio programs and tickets to motivational seminars are pointless. They argue that if you have to spend time every day getting motivated, then why spend any time on it at all. Well the famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar once compared it to bathing. You get dirty after you get a bath and you’ve got to take one every day, don’t you? Would you give up taking baths because you’ve got to do it over and over again?

The fact is, things will get in your way. You will focus your mind and efforts on a specific goal and eventually run into some sort of challenge that makes you want to pack it up and head home. But you need to stay motivated. You need to remind yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing. You’ve got to find motivational books, speeches and audio programs that will help remind you just how capable you really are.

Here are a few tips that will help you stay motivated and on course:

1. Make sure you know the true reasoning behind your goals. You don’t want to just make a lot of money. There is a reason you want to make a lot of money. Figure out what that reason is. If it’s something that is worth working for, it will be so much easier to stay on track when things get tough. But if you are only focused on making money, you might give up. Figuring out the reasoning behind your goal can also help you make sure you’re focusing on the right goals from the start.
2.  Write your goals down (and the underlying reasons for them) and review them every day. It helps to put notes in places you’ll be every day. The bathroom mirror is a popular suggestion, as is the dashboard. It doesn’t matter where you put your reminder, so long as you
   see it every day. The important thing is that you start your day with your goals fresh in your mind.
3. Think about your goals before you go to bed. Specifically concentrate on what you will have to do tomorrow to accomplish them. It’s important that you finish your day planting this seed in your unconscious mind.
4. Regularly purchase motivational materials, including books, audio programs, and tickets to motivational seminars. There are people who spend all of their time learning how to motivate people. Reading one of these authors or listening to one of these speakers can help give you that charge of energy you need to jump one more hurdle.

It’s so much easier to stay on track when you understand exactly why you’ve chosen your goals. It’s even easier to stay motivated when you know what you have to do to accomplish them. If you practice getting motivated every single day you will find that it is easier to accomplish your goals.

Rushing to work, chasing after the family and covering the bills each month is hardwork. Sometimes in our busy lives it can feel like we are riding an increasingly fast treadmill that just keeps on running and unfortunately not always in the direction we would like.

However, there is nothing like a new born child to make you appreciate just what a wonderful thing life is. Remember that last time you saw a relatives or your own new born child. What spectacular pure sense of joy it is to see new flesh and blood full of such potential and unhindered life bubbling away.

Aside from everything else seeing them always reminds me that we have all received an amazing gift… and that is our own life: including our body, thoughts and indeed the ability for us to create within our own lives the situations and circumstance we desire.

It suprises me a bit when people seem to be happy to let themselves be governed by the expectations of society rather than allowing themselves to do what they would actually prefer to do (if they have even given it a moments serious consideration).

I guess it all comes down to being intentional with your actions and knowing that the only person who really controls what is going on in your life is yourself. Maybe it is because it is quite easy to go with the flow and follow the socially accpeted ‘norms’, taking the safe options in life or being persuaded by the advice of others and subsequently not really following your preferred choices. Remember what is right for one person is not always right for another and constantly doing things to please others/fit in is only going to lead to endless frustration further down the line.

What I’m really saying and reminding myself of as well is that the only person who knows what is best for you… is you, and that it is not selfish to break from the norm and to actually take action to achieve your goals and desires and do what YOU want. Refuse to let life and circumstance push you around. Instead be positive, always start something with the end in mind and know that you can and will make a success of it because it is something that you have actually chosen to do and not slipped into doing or been firced to do. There is such a difference between the two. One leads to self fulfillment and happiness, the other leads to frsutration and perhaps even despair.

Just contemplate now what it is that you would be happy to strive for and make your mind up to achieve it. By not striving to achieve something are you making your life happier or unhappier…which life would you ultimately prefer?

So, what are YOU striving for now or are you still drifting being pushed around by circumstance. Make a firm choice now and it could transform your life. Afterall do you want to be sat in your rocking chair in your later years full of regrets or full of endless memories of joy from leading a fulfilling life – it’s your call!