How To Motivate Yourself – Self Motivation

Staying motivated is a struggle — our drive is constantly assaulted by negative thoughts and anxiety about the future. Everyone faces doubt and depression. What separates the highly successful is the ability to keep moving forward.
There is no simple solution for a lack of motivation. Even after beating it, the problem reappears at the first sign of failure. The key is understanding your thoughts and how they drive your emotions. By learning how to nurture motivating thoughts, neutralize negative ones, and focus on the task at hand, you can pull yourself out of a slump before it gains momentum.

Reasons We Lose Motivation

There are 3 primary reasons we lose motivation.

1. Lack of confidence – If you don’t believe you can succeed, what’s the point in trying?

2. Lack of focus – If you don’t know what you want, do you really want anything?

3. Lack of direction – If you don’t know what to do, how can you be motivated to do it?

How to Boost Confidence

The first motivation killer is a lack of confidence. When this happens to me, it’s usually because I’m focusing entirely on what I want and neglecting what I already have. When you only think about what you want, your mind creates explanations for why you aren’t getting it. This creates negative thoughts. Past failures, bad breaks, and personal weaknesses dominate your mind. You become jealous of your competitors and start making excuses for why you can’t succeed. In this state, you tend to make a bad impression, assume the worst about others, and lose self confidence.
The way to get out of this thought pattern is to focus on gratitude. Set aside time to focus on everything positive in your life. Make a mental list of your strengths, past successes, and current advantages. We tend to take our strengths for granted and dwell on our failures. By making an effort to feel grateful, you’ll realize how competent and successful you already are. This will rejuvenate your confidence and get you motivated to build on your current success.
It might sound strange that repeating things you already know can improve your mindset, but it’s amazingly effective. The mind distorts reality to confirm what it wants to believe. The more negatively you think, the more examples your mind will discover to confirm that belief. When you truly believe that you deserve success, your mind will generate ways to achieve it. The best way to bring success to yourself is to genuinely desire to create value for the rest of the world.

Developing Tangible Focus

The second motivation killer is a lack of focus. How often do you focus on what you don’t want, rather than on a concrete goal? We normally think in terms of fear. I’m afraid of being poor. I’m afraid no one will respect me. I’m afraid of being alone. The problem with this type of thinking is that fear alone isn’t actionable. Instead of doing something about our fear, it feeds on itself and drains our motivation.
If you’re caught up in fear based thinking, the first step is focusing that energy on a well defined goal. By defining a goal, you automatically define a set of actions. If you have a fear of poverty, create a plan to increase your income. It could be going back to school, obtaining a higher paying job, or developing a profitable website. The key is moving from an intangible desire to concrete, measurable steps.
By focusing your mind on a positive goal instead of an ambiguous fear, you put your brain to work. It instantly begins devising a plan for success. Instead of worrying about the future you start to do something about it. This is the first step in motivating yourself to take action. When know what you want, you become motivated to take action.

Developing Direction

The final piece in the motivational puzzle is direction. If focus means having an ultimate goal, direction is having a day-to-day strategy to achieve it. A lack of direction kills motivation because without an obvious next action we succumb to procrastination. An example of this is a person who wants to have a popular blog, but who spends more time reading posts about blogging than actually writing articles.
The key to finding direction is identifying the activities that lead to success. For every goal, there are activities that pay off and those that don’t. Make a list of all your activities and arrange them based on results. Then make a make an action plan that focuses on the activities that lead to big returns. To continue the example from above, a blogger’s list would look something like this:

1. Write content

2. Research relevant topics

3. Network with other bloggers

4. Optimize design and ad placements

5. Answer comments and email

6. Read other blogs

Keeping track of your most important tasks will direct your energy towards success. Without a constant reminder, it’s easy to waste entire days on filler activities like reading RSS feeds, email, and random web surfing.
When my motivation starts to wane, I regain direction by creating a plan that contains two positive actions. The first one should be a small task you’ve been meaning to do, while the second should be a long-term goal. I immediately do the smaller task. This creates positive momentum. After that I take the first step towards achieving the long-term goal. Doing this periodically is great for getting out of a slump, creating positive reinforcement, and getting long-term plans moving.

It’s inevitable that you’ll encounter periods of low energy, bad luck, and even the occasional failure. If you don’t discipline your mind, these minor speed bumps can turn into mental monsters. By being on guard against the top 3 motivation killers you can preserve your motivation and propel yourself to success.
Confidence is KEY to keeping motivated. If you’ve ever wondered exactly how self confident you actually are.

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Well, there is never really a bad time to start a home based business, but sometimes you just have to go for it!

However, the current economic climate can make it a great time to start a home based business.

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Recession breeds necessity. With the global credit crisis, the softening of the housing market and the subsequent foreclosures, more people are looking for different options to make money. The days of a lifelong career in the one industry have passed – most of us will have two or three different careers in our lifetime. The ability to adapt to the market will be one that we will all need to develop. We are now no longer “stuck” in our given profession – we have choices!

History shows that it is often small business that drives the recovery from recession. 16 out of 30 corporations in the current Dow Jones Industrial Average started during a recession. Some great examples of “recession busters”: Walt Disney began in the recession of 1923-24, Hewlett Packard Corporation in the recession of 1938 and Microsoft Corporation in the recession of 1975.

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Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Internet Business

1. Why do I want my own Internet Marketing Business? Before deciding to start a business, think about the qualities you possess, what makes you tick, and how that might help you be a more successful business owner.

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Do You Want Success Badly Enough To Have It?

You undoubtedly started your network marketing or home based business for one reason. Freedom. It may be financial freedom, time freedom, or freedom of choice — and in all likelihood it was for all three. You success in your network marketing business and the degree of freedom you achieve is going to be strongly determined by your answer to one simple question: How badly do you want it?

When it comes to building your business, there are typically three types of people. There are those who will make it happen, those who let it happen and those who missed what just happened. The latter two categories are occupied by the victims of the world. The first category is reserved for the 3% of people who are the leaders of the world — and make no mistake, if you are one of the 3% who make it happen; it is because you want it really, really badly.

You may claim you want your freedom, but when push comes to shove, are you prepared to fight for it? Are you willing to pay the price? Or are simply looking for something to be handed to you for free?

Throughout history, determined leaders have fought for their freedom and their liberty. There is always a price to pay, and they pay it gladly. Why? Because that’s how badly they wanted it.

Your home or network marketing business is about your personal fight for your personal freedom. But you will only win that fight if you decide it’s worth fighting for.

The global economy is unstable. Are you willing to allow your personal economy to be unstable? Are you willing to allow your financial condition to be swept away with the tide or are you going to stand up for your right to earn what you are really worth and do the things required to build your business and claim your freedom? Read the rest of this entry

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome. Your beliefs are such powerful little creatures and they have everything to do with your level of success in your network marketing business. Without you even necessarily being conscious of them, they tend to govern what you do, what you aim for, and how you feel about yourself and your possibilities. Your belief in yourself and what is possible in your business determines your mindset — and your mindset is where your success, or your failure, begins.

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.” (Denis Waitley)

As a home business entrepreneur, you no doubt have had ample opportunity to learn first hand how tremendously empowering — or limiting — your beliefs can be and the impact they have in allowing you to attract the abundance and prosperity you desire from your business.

It’s been said that what ever you believe, you are right. So in that case, doesn’t it stand to reason that you ought to take tremendous care in choosing what your beliefs are? If your beliefs are in fact that powerful — that they will literally dictate your reality — then it is worth the time to reconcile the reality you desire with the beliefs you hold and then foster the development of your belief in the reality you want.

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” (Anthony Robbins)

“In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome.” (William James)

“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” (Oscar Wilde)

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