MOTIVATION, THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT

Have you ever thought about why people change or what the underlying factor is in looking towards self-improvement.

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting bad grades makes us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us of our inability to find a good source of income. Being humiliated gives us the ‘push’ to speak up and fight for ourselves, to save 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 us get up and find just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves.

The key factor in self improvement is motivation, without which there is no driving force to change and so nothing would be achieved.

With the countless negativities in the world around us, how do we keep motivated? It is very hard but I found some interesting tips from A-Z that might inspire you and so I want to share them with you...

A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

B - Believe in yourself, and in what you can do.

C – Consider things from every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D – Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than three times before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation your steering wheel.

E – Enjoy work as if you don’t need money, dance as if nobody’s watching, love as if you’ve never cried, learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F – Family and Friends – are life’s greatest treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.

G – Give more than enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work, at home, at school? Wherever you exert extra effort in doing things.

H – Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I – Ignore those who try to destroy you or put you down. Don’t let other people get the best of you. Stay away from people who hate to hear about your success they are not true friends.

J – Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone by being what they want you to be.

K – Keep trying, no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, they strive joyfully to their goals and follow their dreams.

L – Learn to love yourself. Now isn’t that easy?

M – Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O – Open your eyes to all that you experience in life and if it is not what you want then change it. Change is under your control.

P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways in which can we recover from our mistakes.

Q – Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate – are you going to be a quitter or a winner?

R – Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.

S – Stop procrastinating.

T – Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U – Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and then to be understood.

V – Visualize your dreams. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W – Want it more than anything. Feel it, experience the emotion of what you want and the way it makes you feel having it. Dreaming means believing and to believe is something that extends out from the core understanding of motivation and self improvement.

X – X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to achieve more “extras” in your life, like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.

Y – You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.

Z – Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!

Hope you can work with some of these to improve your life. Until tomorrow, love and light.