The A-Z Of Motivation

Pain may sometimes be the reason why
people change. Getting bad
grades make you realize that you need
to study. Debts remind you of
your inability to look for a source of
income. Being humiliated
gives you the `push’ to speak up and
fight for yourself to save your
face from the next embarrassment. It
may be a bitter experience, a
friend’s tragic story, a great movie,
or an inspiring book that will
help you to get up and get just the
right amount of motivation you
need in order to improve yourself.

With all the people trying to pull you
down and waiting for you to
fail, how can you stay motivated and
positive?

Try this A to Z of tips for motivation

A – Achieving your dreams. Avoid
negative people, things and places
because they will only drag you down.
Eleanor Roosevelt once
said, “The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of
their dreams.”

B – Believe in your self, and in what
you can do. Believe in your
possibilities and your dreams. Every
advancement of humankind has
taken place because someone believed
in themselves.

C – Consider all of the angles and
aspects of everything you
encounter, whether it is people or
situations. Motivation comes from
strength of purpose. Being able to see
both points of view will give
you more chance of being successful
and keeping those around you
motivated too.

D – Don’t give up and don’t give in.
Every successful person from J
K Rowling to Walt Disney to Sylvester
Stallone to Thomas Edison had
multiple failures before being
successful. Sometimes their failures
or rejections ran into the hundreds
before they achieved success.

E – Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need
money. Dance as if nobody’s
watching. Love as if you never cried.
Learn as if you’ll live
forever. Motivation takes place when
people are happy.

F – Family and Friends. Use your
family and friends to help you stay
motivated. The big football teams have
cheerleaders and fans to
encourage them. Your family and
friends can be your cheerleaders and
fans. Use them to keep you going when
you feel your motivation
drifting.

G – Give that little bit extra. Self
improvement happens everywhere
all the time, whether you are at home,
at work or at school. Anthony
Robbins tells us that the difference
in effort between excellent and
outstanding is miniscule, yet the
difference in rewards is massive.
Giving that little bit extra can put
you into the outstanding.

H – Hang on to your dreams. There may
be times when it looks bleak,
but hang on to your dreams. The night
is darkest just before the
dawn. It is at this moment that you
are closest to success and 95%
of people will give up. Push through
this moment and you’ll achieve
your dreams.

I – Ignore those who try to destroy
you. Don’t get involved in their
dramas or toxicity – just walk away.
Surround yourself with people
who will encourage and support you.
Remove those who want to pull
you down and watch you fail from your
life. You’ll find it much
easier to stay motivated.

J – Joy and gratitude. Perhaps two of
the fundamentals for
motivation and success is to be joyful
in what you do and grateful
for what you have.

K – Keep pushing forwards no matter
how hard life may seem. In the
toughest moments you can choose to
move forwards or to run away.
It’s your decision – one path brings
you closer to the success, the
other takes you away from it. Which do
you want to follow?

L – Learn to love your self. This
isn’t as easy as it sounds for
most people, but by loving yourself
you will be happier and more
motivated because you will believe you
deserve what you achieve.

M – Make things happen. Motivation and
success doesn’t come from
sitting in front of the television
drinking coke and eating pizza.
Take action and you’ll achieve your
dreams.

N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always
play a fair game. At the end
of the day, if you live a dishonest
life, it will come back to you.
Living an honest, fair life allows you
to be proud of what you do.

O – Open your eyes. Everyone has a set
of blinkers that they wear
and see everything through them, i.e.
how they would like things to
be. Look at life with open eyes and
see things how they are, and see
them how you want them to be. Then
take action to make it happen.

P – Practice makes perfect. The more
you practice, the better you
become. A top sportsman doesn’t reach
their status through a single
practice or game. They practice harder
and longer than anyone else,
and as such, are rewarded more than
anyone else.

Q – Quitters never win. And winners
never quit. So, which do you
want to be?

R – Ready yourself. Always be ready to
take advantage of the
opportunities and situations presented
to you. Prepare in advance,
and ignore the voice telling you to
put it off until tomorrow.
Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah
built the ark!

S – Stop procrastinating. You can put
it all off until tomorrow, but
one day there will be no more
tomorrows. Start procrastinating about
procrastinating and do tomorrows jobs
today.

T – Take control of your life.
Discipline and self control are
synonymous with motivation. So many
people believe their lives are
out of their control. Look at your
life in detail and you’ll
discover you have more areas under
your control than you think.

U – Understand others. If you know
very well how to talk, you should
also learn how to listen. You have two
ears and one mouth for a
reason. Understand others and strive
to be understood.

V – Visualise it. Your sub-conscious
knows no difference between
your imagination and reality, so if
you rehearse your success in
your mind, then your sub-conscious
will believe in it and make it
happen.

W – Want it more than anything. Every
successful person has had a
burning desire to achieve their goals.
The Wright brothers didn’t
invent the aeroplane because there was
nothing on the television.
They had a burning desire to succeed
and kept going, even in the
face of setbacks.

X – X Factor is what will make you
different from the others. When
you are motivated, you tend to put
on “extras” on your life like
extra time for family, extra help at
work, extra care for friends.
This X-Factor sets you aside from the
crowd and marks you out for
success.

Y – You are unique. No one in this
world looks, acts, thinks or
talks like you. Value your unique
gifts, whatever they are and use
them for your success.

Z – Zero in on your dreams and make it
happen!!!