10 Motivational Tips To Inspire You To Become Successful (Part 5)

1.     Be hungry for it—Wanting something isn’t enough.  To be truly motivated, you need to have hunger and not just desire. Having mere desire won’t take you through hard times since you don’t want things badly enough. In many cases, hunger makes the difference between the best performers and the mediocre ones.

 

2.     Do it your way—Don’t try to do it better than someone else.  Comparing yourself with others is an effective way to destroy your motivation. Even if you start with enthusiasm, you will soon lose your energy when you compare yourself with others. The only competitor you have is yourself. The only one you need to beat is you.

 

3.     Take one more step—Every journey begins with the first step.  When you meet obstacles along the way, there could be the tendency to quit. You may think that it’s too difficult to move on. You may think that your dream is impossible to achieve.  What makes a winner instead of a loser is the courage to continue.  In difficult situations, focus on taking one more step forward. Don’t think about how to complete the race. Don’t think about how many more obstacles are waiting for you. Just focus on taking one more step.

 

4.     Let go of the past—One of the most destructive things to motivation is your past.  Your past can drag you down before you realize it. Your past can give you a heavy burden on your shoulders. Take it off your shoulder and leave it. You might have made mistakes in the past. You might have disappointed others with what you did. The good news here is—It’s over. It’s already in the past and there’s nothing you can do about it.  Remember today is a new day and you have the chance to start again. No matter how bad your past might be, you still have a bright future ahead waiting for you.

 

5.    Try tackling the worst jobs first—By doing this, you get the worst job out of the way first and then the rest of the day is a piece of cake.  Once we’ve done those horrible, distasteful jobs, everything else on your list looks much more appealing.

 

6.     Face your fear—The truth is often much less dramatic than we make it out to be in our minds.  Don’t allow false expectations and fears keep you from doing things.  You’ll learn that if you do, your success never stood a chance against your fear.  Before you work yourself into hysteria try to face your fear instead.  What is the worst thing that could happen if you fail?  There may not truly be something absolutely awful that could occur.  You may just be setting up false expectations due to fear. 

 

7.     Reconsider Your Path—If you find that you’re frequently not motivated to do the things that need to be done, maybe you should be examine things, and then consider doing something else on a regular basis instead. If you have to talk yourself out of bed in the morning by saying you have no choice in the matter and must resign yourself to the task at hand, this could be a good choice for you. 

 

Life should offer some excitement and adventure along the way…at least enough that you don’t mind so much about all those little things that make up the mundane parts.   If you’re finding that the mundane drastically overwhelms the adventure, then no amount of motivation will make you see it differently.  Try to find something that doesn’t require so much motivation to get it done.  It should be something that lights that fire and gets you excited without any extra effort on your part.  If you do, you won’t need to worry about self-motivation.

 

8.     Hold yourself back—When you start a new project, you are probably full of excitement and enthusiasm.  You probably have no sense of self-limitation.  Moving full-steam ahead can be great, but it can also cause you to burn out fast.  If you force yourself to hold back in the beginning and plan out a course of action to gradually increase, you’ll prevent burnout and keep your motivation high.

 

9.    Join a group to keep you motivated and focused—It can be online or offline.  By being a member of this group or association, you will have regular conversations with people with common goals that are free to speak their mind about your ideas.  If it is an online group, you won’t know or probably ever meet the other, so you don’t have to worry about hurting each other’s feelings.  You can get really great ideas, share your ideas, improve your success and keep your motivation high.

 

10. Put up a picture of your goal in a visible place—putting up pictures of   things that motivate you are one thing.  Having a visual picture of your  goal is another.  Say you want to take your family to Hawaii with the bonus  from this project.  Your family would be your motivator, but pictures of Hawaii would be your goal.  Seeing it regularly can give you a visual sense and keep you focused on the goal without losing motivation.