4 Ways to Staying Highly Motivated

4 Ways to Staying Highly Motivated

By Tracy Brinkmann

Where you are today is a direct result of the actions you have taken in your past. The degree of happiness and success you enjoy today is the fruits of your past labor. If you are not where you want to be today – then you need take action – daily and consistent action to be specific.

The level of success and happiness we all achieve is the direct result of our consistent actions. Not those actions we take every now and then. Like those actions we take towards our New Year’s resolution that usually dies out by this time of year. No our success is in fact the result of our habits (consistent actions). For those habits are the rudders that steer our course of success in live. Suffice to say we all need to develop good habits if we are looking to reach our goal of
success.

Unfortunately for most of us our habits are not a result of logical decision-making and conscious thought. Generally the habits we have are the reactions to our experiences (stimuli). If we have had a heavy dosage of negative experiences, then we will tend to produce negative reactions. What do you think you’ll get from those consistent negative reactions? That is right – bad habits.

A powerful tool at your disposal to help you take control of your habits is your level of motivation. If you are motivated and are driven – then your unstoppable desire for success will outstrip your fear of failure. A motivated person is far more willing to step outside their comfort zone and take that all- important life changing chance. They become more, they do more, and thus they have more.

If you are looking to build your level of motivation here are some steps that will serve you well.

1 – Set your Goals
Know what you want! Goals give your life purpose. Your desire to reach these goals will become a great motivator in your life.
Big goals, little goals, personal, professional, financial and spiritual goals – write them all down. Long term and short term – write them down in clear and specific terms. Then set to work on them.

2 – DAILY Action
Once you set your goals. Put in place a plan that requires you to execute at least on step each day. No matter how small or how big. A phone call, some reading, a contact, a letter, whatever just do something everyday. Each of these steps will bring you closer to your goal – and motivate you to higher achievements. Remember a habit is nothing more that a repeated behavior. Taking daily actions will form your successful habit so strongly that eventually you will be taking action without conscious thought. It will just be who you are – a successful and motivated person.

3 – Feel it!
We are not creatures of pure logic – we are emotional creatures.
While our minds will work out the most successful business plan ever conceived. It is our emotion, our desire, which moves us to execute the plan. Connect all the good feelings you have to your action. Every time you succeed, small or large, at one of your action steps, know and feel that you are now one step closer to your goal. These repeated connections shall reinforce your emotional drive to achieve your goals. Another good technique is to sit down and list all the reasons why you want to or must reach this goal – all positive reasons. Then do the flip side, list all the things you will miss out on, be forced into or dislike about your life, yourself etc. if you do not achieve your goal. Now your using both of the two primary emotions you have, desire & fear, to your advantage

4 – Take Responsibility!
Don’t give yourself an out. Stop blaming your parents, your childhood, your kids, your wife, the economy, your boss, your dog, your postman or any other thing/person in your life. It is in fact YOUR life. Don’t say if I could I would, say I can and I will. You may have many reasons why, but only you can change them, so take responsibility. Step up and remember the words of Oprah Winfrey “My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

Seven Qualities of Master Achievers

Seven Qualities of Master Achievers

by Brian Tracy (excerpted from The Success Mastery Academy)

If you think the way successful people think and adopt their success habits, you too can be successful.

Here are seven qualities of the top 1% of successful people.

1. They are Ambitious.
They see themselves capable of being the best. They see themselves with the capacity of being really good at what they do. This was a really big thought for me. It held me back for many years. When I saw people who were doing better than I was, I naturally assumed they were better than I was. And if they were better than I was, then I must be worse than them, so that would mean they were superior and I was inferior. That is a big problem in our society. We have feelings of inferiority, and these feelings of inferiority are often translated into feelings of undeservedness. We don't feel we deserve to be a big success. The word "deserve" comes from two Latin words meaning "from service." You deserve 100% of everything you make and enjoy as long as you get it from serving other people. Your rewards are in direct proportion to your service. If you serve better and serve more and serve at a higher level and serve more enthusiastically and serve a higher quality, then you'll have a wonderful income you'll deserve every penny of it. You must see yourself capable of being the best.

2. They are Courageous.
They work to confront the fears that hold most people back. The two biggest enemies to yours and my success is fear and doubt. Eliminating fear and doubt is the key. The key to eliminating fear: If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. When you do something repeatedly, you develop a habit. Make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. To overcome fear of rejection in prospecting, you must realize that rejection in selling is not personal. Top salespeople do not fear prospecting. Face your fear. Do the things you fear. The ability to confront your fear is the mark of the superior person. If you have high ambition and you decide to be in the top 10%, and you can confront your fears and do the things that are holding you back, those two things alone will make you a great success.

3. They are Committed.
The top people in every field, especially the top salespeople, are completely committed. They believe in themselves; they believe in their companies; they believe in their products and services; they believe in their customers; they have an intense belief. We know that there is a one-to-one relationship between the depth of your belief and what happens in your reality. And if you absolutely believe in the rightness and the goodness of what you're doing, you become like a catalyst. You create what is called a transfer, like an electrical transfer of enthusiasm. People like to buy from people who truly believe in what they are doing. People who are not committed to what they do lead very empty lives. The second part is that caring is the critical element in modern selling. Caring is a critical element in life, as well. All men and women who enjoy great lives care about what they do! They have passion about what they do. They love what they do.

4. They are Professional.
Top salespeople see themselves as consultants rather than as salespeople. When you think of the word "consultant," what words come to mind? When do you call a consultant? A consultant is a problem-solver. What word does not appear when you think of a consultant-- the word "salesperson". We don't think of consultants as salespeople. The most successful consultants in America are the very best salespeople of their services. When a person is positioned as a consultant in the mind and heart of the customer, he is not seen as a salesperson. Do people like to be sold? Do people like to be helped to improve their lives and work? So they look upon a salesperson as someone who sells them. Selling is something you do "to" someone, and people don't like to be done "to". So when you think of being a consultant, here is the key. How do you position yourself as a consultant with your customers? Of course, you act like a consultant, but even before you get the chance to act like a consultant , you build a rapport. And the most simple answer of all, and this is the most profound principle: People accept you at your own evaluation of yourself. Consultants come in and have a cup of coffee. Salespeople wait in the waiting room and have a glass of water. If you say you're a consultant, your customer will accept you as a consultant. >From now on, position yourself as a consultant. Think of yourself as a consultant. Remember, 80% of what you accomplish on the outside is determined by who you are on the inside. How you see yourself determines how the customer responds to you. The customer's perception of you determines how much they buy and how much they recommend you to other customers.

5. They are Prepared.
They review every detail in advance. To be in the top 10% requires additional efforts. It requires doing things that the average person is not willing to do. It requires making sacrifices the average person is not willing to make. It requires reviewing every detail of every call or situation before every business meeting. But the difference it makes is extraordinary. Before you go into a meeting, do your homework. Successful people are more concerned about pleasing results than they are about pleasing methods. When you sit down with a client, there is nothing more complimentary to a client than the feeling that you have prepared for the meeting.

6. They are Continuous Learners.
They recognize that if they're not continually getting better, they're getting worse. They read, they listen to CDs and they take additional training. The professional never stops learning. So read, listen to CDs, take continuous training.

7. They are Responsible.
They see themselves as President of their own personal services corporation. The top people in our society have an attitude of self-employed. 100% of us are self-employed. We are presidents of our own personal services corporation. You work for yourself. The biggest mistake we can ever make is to think we work for anyone else. We work for ourselves. The person who signs our paycheck may change; our jobs may change, but we are always the same. We are the one constant--we are always self-employed. The fact of the matter is -- this is not optional, it is mandatory -- you are the president of your own company, you're the president of your own career, your own life, your own finances, your own body, your own family, your own health. You are totally responsible. We are responsible. No one will ever do it for us. It's the most liberating and exhilarating thought of all, to think that you're the president of your own life.

If You Think You Can, You Can

(This excerpt was taken from Denis Waitley's Seeds of Greatness Treasury)

You can be a total winner, even if you're a beginnerIf you think you can you can, if you think you can you canYou can wear the gold medallion, you can ride your own black stallionIf you think you can you can, if you think you can you can

It's not your talent or the gifted birthIt's not your bank book that determines worthIt isn't in your gender or the color of your skinIt's your attitude that lets you win

You can live with "coulds" or "shoulds," or be like Tiger WoodsIf you think you can you can, if you think you can you canEven if you're hesitant, you can be a woman PresidentIf you think you can you can, if you think you can you can

It doesn't matter what you've done beforeIt makes no difference what the halftime scoreIt's never over 'til the final gunSo keep on trying and you'll find you've won

Just grab your dream and then believe itGo out and work, and you'll achieve itIf you think you can, you canIf you think you can, you can

TOTAL MOTIVATION

Kali ini saya akan membahas buku yang berjudul "Total Motivation" yang ditulis ule Satria Hadi lubis.Didalam bukunya, menurtu penulis manusia memiliki empat dimensi diri, yaitu mental,emotional,spiritual dan fisik. semua dimensi tersebut memiliki hubungan satu sama lain dan saling mempengaruhi satu sama lain.
Berbagai cara menumbuhkan motivasi diri sebenarnya bersumber dari empat dimensi manusia. dengan "menghidupkan" satu atau lebih dimensi manusia tersebut kita dapat termotivasi.
Setiap dimensi manusia tersebut memiliki sumber pemicu untuk menumbuhkan motivasi diri. sumber pemicu itu adalah:
a. Visualisasi untuk dimensi mental
b. Tanggung jawab untuk dimensi spiritual
c. Kenyamanan dan kesukaan untuk dimensi emosional
d. Gerakan untuk dimensi fisik
Manusia pada dasarnya memiliki kemampuan memotivasi diri yang tidak terbatas. semakin besar upaya kita untuk "menyalakan"sumber pemicumotivasi semakin besar motivasi yang dihasilkan.
Bisa juga dipahami bahwa empat dimensi manusia perlu "dihidupkan" agar kita terotivasi. cara "menghidupkannya terserah dari kita masing2 pribadi. bisa dimulai dari salah satu dimensi tersebut, bisa juga dengan langsung "menghidupkan" duat atau tiga dimensi tersebut. bahkan bisa juga keseluruhannya secara serempak.

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Dog Whisperer = Pengangkal Anjing (?)
Anjing kok ditangkal, ya memang begitulah..
jadi sekarang tidak hanya ada penangkal hujan,banjir aja, tapi udah ada penangkal anjing.

Enaknya jadi penangkal anjing kita jadi gak usah takut dikejar/digigit anjing.

S.M.I.L.E

SMILE....SENYUMLAH
dan dunia akan tersenyum

Senyum akan membuat kamu bahagia,senang dan rileks. senyum akan membahagiakan ati kamu dan orang2 disekitar kamu.
Senyumlah dan orang akan membalas dengan senyuman pula...

Sadness VS Happiness

Terkadang hati kita tak dapat diarahkan, kadang merasa sedih, secepat kilat menjadi bahagia.
Kita harus pandai mengatur emosi kita. Manusia mengendalikan emosi, bukan sebaliknya.
tanpa emosi manusia juga akan monoton.
Emosi memegang peranan penting dalam diri kita.

Millionare I AM

Millionare I Am ? Yes I am Millionare...

Setiap dari kita harus mempunyai cita2 tertinggi dari hidup kita.

dalam bidang ekonomi misalnya, kita harus bisa jadi jutawan. betul?

Jadi jutawan itu enak (harus percaya), kamu bisa melakukan apa aja dengan uang kamu itu..

Belanja, beramal, menabung dll....

Ayo semua cita-citakan di tahun 2008 menjadi Jutawan...

Sang Bidadari Surga

Apakah kelezatan dan angan-angan telah melalaikanmu
Dari bidadari cantik dan putih di dalam surga
Disana, kau hidup kekal, tak akan mati
Kau lupa disurga ada gadis-gadis cantik jelita
Bangunlah dari tidurmu karena ada yang lebih baik
Daripada tidur, yaitu tahajud sambil membaca Al-Quran

Syair Shalat Malam

Ketika malam tiba, mereka bersusah payah
Rasa takut membuat mereka tak tidur, bediri, ruku
Sementara mereka yang merasa aman didunia tertidur
Dalam kegelapan sambil bersujud
Mereka merintih hingga dada mengembang
Pada siang, mereka membisu karena sering terdiam
Dalam ketenangan mereka ada khusyuk