Motivation 101 - The Last Article You Will Ever Need About Motivation

Everyone who is unsuccessful looks for motivation outside of themselves. They believe motivation has to come from someone else or some other thing. This article will dispel all the wrong belief about motivation and why you must develop the only true type of motivation: Self-Motivation!

Have you ever said, "I'm just not motivated..." Guess what you are not alone. I've been there. Being not motivated is the issue that everyone has. I believe there are only two groups of people when it comes to motivation: Those who are and those who are not!

I see this every single year at my gym. During January and part of February the gym is so busy I can hardly take. Every class I sign up for is booked solid. Every free weight bench is taken. Honestly, I can hardly function in this situation, but some how I get by! :

The reality is that soon enough all of these people will fall off. They will quit showing up because deep down they are not truly motivated in make a difference in their fitness lives! The same is true for anything in our lives.

Something that I am not motivated to do is clean my house. I could care less if my house is clean or dirty. I would say that I have no motivation in this area of my life.

I believe it is acceptable because I can pay someone else to do it. While taking control of your finances, health, happiness, and relationships are not areas that can be outsourced.

The best example I know of in self motivation is in my business. I work with different people every day. I am a poor judge at how self motivated someone is to reaching their dreams. It is usually the last person I think that is truly hungry for results. All of a sudden I see this person selling a ton of products out of no where. So I am always impressed.

Here is the point: True motivation comes from within. In my experience of working with thousand of people over the years in sales is self motivation is the only motivation that matters. Self motivated people don't need to be reminded of what they have to do in their lives. They don't have to be asked what are they doing today to improve their lives. They simply do.

Ask yourself, Are you self motivated? This is the only difference I have found between successful people and unsuccessful people. Self motivated people stick to their goals and figure out the solution to getting the results they want no matter what it takes!



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Nature or Nurture

I am inquisitive by nature. I am of the mindset that everything happens for a reason. What is the reason? I want to know the 'why' behind everything. I spend too much time trying to figure it all out. This slows me down. I find myself trapped in memories; the pieces that make up the puzzle. There are always moments you cannot erase, those 'wish I would've...', 'I could kick myself for....' saying/not saying/going/not going (you get the point) times in life. I need to live and learn.



My belief has always been that the person we become as we grow is a result of neither nature nor nurture, but a combination of both of these things. Your values and personal beliefs are a result of your upbringing and your experiences throughout life. In the moments that we think about, and play over again in our heads, our actions at the time were reflections of who we are. If we become wise enough to open-mindedly decipher if an action taken was right or wrong, we allow ourselves to learn. We allow ourselves to learn more about the world we live in and we allow ourselves to learn more about ourselves. That is when we stop letting ourselves be spoon-fed information and begin to process it on our own. Find your passion and allow yourself to see things another way. Live and learn.



Different actions make for different endings. By dwelling on it, you get stuck in some ephemeral compilation of fleeting moments in life. I wonder, is hindsight REALLY 20/20? It is true that things could turn out a different way if a different course of action is taken most times. But if it was, the shape of our lives could be altered. Accept things as they are. Mistakes made were just that. That realization in and of itself makes the future different. Each moment is lived only once. The secret, I believe is not to make the SAME mistake again. Live....and learn.


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