How to Be Your Own Best Motivator

By Donna Deeprose

Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones and your boss provides you with plenty of motivation and encouragement. But, in truth, motivation is internal. Others can change your external situation, but only you can draw out the motivation from within yourself and put it to work to energize yourself on the job.

Here are simple ways you can motivate yourself:

• Reward yourself when you’ve done what you know is a good job, perhaps by going out to a special dinner. Even better, take along a friend who can reinforce your sense of accomplishment.
• When you need a reminder of how important your work is, sit down and make a list of all the people who depend upon you and all the worthwhile outcomes to which you have contributed.
• When you feel your job is going nowhere, volunteer for a project that takes you out of the routine. Or take a course in something entirely new.
• If the organization you work for seems to be adrift, craft your own vision and seek out tasks that are relevant to it.
• If you find yourself in a negative environment, seek out the company of noncynics. Every organization has some, and you'll be amazed at how much better you will feel in their presence.

How to motivate yourself when faced with a boring project:

• Enlist a colleague to help, not because misery loves company, but because you can bounce ideas off each other and make the work more enjoyable.
• Concentrate on being creative. You don't have to do things in the same old dull manner. Brainstorm some more interesting approaches.
  

How to motivate yourself when faced with an "impossible" project:

• Enlist the help of an expert. Somebody, somewhere has probably done it before and is willing to share their expertise.
• Confer with people who tackled similar tasks without success. They can be helpful by telling you the traps to avoid.
• Ask yourself: "What can I learn by attempting this, even if the outcome isn't a huge success?"
• Talk to the people who came up with the assignment. Why do they think this will work? What’s their bottom line? If they were to do it themselves, where would they start?
  

How to motivate yourself when faced with a thankless project:

• Put in writing all that goes into this project or task. If you haven't started it yet, draw up a plan of action with anticipated due dates.
• Keep a log and present it to your boss or the project manager to keep him or her informed.
• Negotiate. Ask for what you want in return: compensation time perhaps, if the project eats into your personal time or the time you need for your other work. At the very least, ask for recognition for your efforts—a letter to your boss’s boss perhaps, copied to you of course, or acknowledgement in front of your peers.
• Reward yourself. Establish regular achievement milestones throughout the project and reward yourself when you reach each one. Do it publicly, if appropriate. Bring in a cake and share it, for example.
• Post a big calendar on your wall and mark off your progress in big symbols that no one who walks by can miss. When people ask you what it’s about, tell them. If they don't ask, find a way to tell them anyway.

Finally, and most important, if you’re working on a project with others, make sure they don't work thanklessly. Give them plenty of recognition. Have celebrations. Give fun prizes. Recognize and reward them until they are really charged up and you catch some of their fever.

From Smart Things to Know about Motivation, by Donna Deeprose (Capstone Publishing, 2003).

Turning dreams into reality

By Remez Sasson

Achieving your dreams and goals depends on several factors:

1. You should have a specific goal.
2. You have to be sure that you really want to achieve your goal.
3. You need to have a clear mental image of your goal.
4. You need a strong desire.
5. You need to disregard and reject doubts and thoughts about failure.
6. Show confidence and faith and persevere until you gain success

How many people fulfill all the above-mentioned requirements? Just a few! Most people do not know that there are some laws governing success, which should be followed.
It is so easy and simple to daydream and then say, "Well it is just a daydream. It will never come true". It is so easy to give up due to lack of faith.

Achieving your goals shouldn't be a tough ordeal. In fact, it can be fun and pleasure, if you go in the right way. It is not hard physical work that brings success. Great success does not require hard physical labour. In fact, you need to do mental work.

Visualization and repeating affirmations make up this mental work, and are important stepping stones to achieving success. When you visualize and affirm you focus and channel your energies toward your goal. Your mind is geared toward finding solutions to bring your goal into manifestation.

By thinking in a positive manner on your goal, and do not letting any doubts enter your mind, your intuition starts working, you see opportunities, and you have energy at your disposal to follow your goals and dreams.

Some people listen to subliminal messages, for programming their minds for success. There are many CD's available today, which implant subliminal messages into the mind, so as to activate its power. Some people prefer to use them, because this does not require any effort on their part. It is said that these subliminal messages, which go straight to the subconscious mind, bring faster results. Maybe they do, but then you have no control on what goes into your mind.

When you visualize and affirm your goals or write down, you gain much more then just programming your mind passively with subliminal messages. The attention, intention and energy you channel toward visualizing and affirming, develop in you inner strength, concentration, willpower and self-discipline. You actively develop your inner powers.

One of the advantages of visualization and affirmations is that you can use them wherever you are, at any time, without the necessity of any external instruments. All you need is your mind.

Success appears in various ways, sometimes in a miraculous way, sometimes in an ordinary way, and sometimes through an opportunity that appears. A door opens, but you have to get in and take advantage of the opportunity.

Correctly following these methods will bring you more ambition, inspiration and motivation, which would enhance your chances of success.

Remember, there are big goals and there are many small daily goals, which visualization and affirmations can make them easier and faster to achieve.
People often erroneously think that goals mean only big goals, such as: becoming wealthy, getting an expensive car, possessing a big house with a swimming pool,
building a very successful business.

The truth is that the following are no less important goals:

getting to work on time,
spending more time with the family,
reading a book,
going to see a movie,
eating less.

How do you visualize and affirm?
Are there any special rules and instructions?
Yes, there are!

Like any other subject, if you want to do it right you need to study it right. It is simple and easy to learn to achieve success through visualization and affirmations. Anyone can learn to use them right. Browse the website, and you will find a lot of practical and useful information.
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The books "Visualize and Achieve" and "Affirmations - Words of Power" will teach everything you need to know, in order to use the powers of visualization and affirmations.

These books are much more than just books. They are textbooks that teach in a very clear and easy to understand language all about visualization and affirmations.
You will find them very useful, if you desire to improve your life and program your mind for success.

Inspiring Quotes - Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Welcome to the motivational and inspirational Quotes!

Inspiring quotes motivate and inspire, and help you to look at life from a different, and often broader perspective and angle, and show you that things can be done in a different way. It is great if you read inspiring quotes everyday, especially in the morning, before you begin your day.

Inspiring quotes enlighten the mind and awaken it to truth and wisdom. They bring happiness and awaken hope and faith in the soul. They help in times of difficulties and in time of happiness and success.

Quotes on Motivation and Getting Motivated


-Motivation brings excitement, happiness, positive expectations and energy.


-Motivation overcomes laziness, procrastination, fear and indecisiveness.


-Motivation is the electrical power that activates the engine of success.


-Getting motivated is like switching the engine of a car and starting to move.


-Getting motivated is one of the most important steps toward getting what you want.


-A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation.


-Success requires that you have a motivating inner power to push you forward.


-Motivation, backed by good planning and correct action leads to success.


-It is important that you motivate yourself only towards worthy and positive goals that will benefit you and others.


-Emotions, feelings and desires are the powers that push people to take action.


-Both positive and negative emotions lead to action and fulfillment. Choose positive emotions and be wary of the negative ones.


-The power of motivation is the power behind every achievement, big and small.


-Laziness, indifference and lack of ambition are the results of lack of motivation.


-Focusing your whole attention on your goal, moves you steadily toward achieving it.


-Your inner focus, intent and faith lead you to the accomplishment your desire.


-Reading inspiring and motivating stories awaken the desire to take action and do things.


-Stories about people who have achieved their goals, material or spiritual, evoke the desire to do the same.


-The moods and mental states of energetic, highly motivated people, are contagious. They can awaken in you the desire to be like them.


-Association with energetic, highly motivated people, awaken dormant energies and powers in the people who associate with them.


-Visualizing your desire as already accomplished and enjoying the feelings of accomplishment, awaken in you energies that drive you to do whatever it takes to make your desire come true.


-Affirmations awaken the power of your subconscious mind into action.


-First motivate yourself, and then it will be easier to motivate others.


-Motivation gives the first push, but you need persistence and self discipline to get to the finish line.

Courage

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
-John F. Kennedy

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

A man full of courage is also full of faith.
--Cicero

Courage is grace under pressure.
-Ernest Hemingway

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

-Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

-Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.
-Roosevelt, Eleanor

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
-Robert Cushing

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali

You can't test courage cautiously.
-Anne Dillard

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-Aesop

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
-Lyndon Baines Johnson