Motivation to Success :: Reach Your Potential Maximum

By Susan Velez

Motivation is the drive to want to succeed in everything you do. Without it you will never succeed in life; you will surely fail in every venture you set out in. It is not something we are born with you can learn how to develop motivation so that you can succeed in life.

Motivation is the key to success; after all it is the characteristic that drives you into action. Without action you will never accomplish anything. Action is required to make things happen. If you expect something to happen without action and motivation; then you are just dreaming and nothing is ever going to change in your life.

One of the best ways to develop your motivation level is to utilize positive affirmations and begin telling yourself that you have the the desire and drive to work towards your goals everyday. Utilize the affirmations on a daily basis; as you do this you will begin to influence your subconscious to make it a reality. You will be surprised at how your subconscious will become brainwashed and your belief about your being able to be do have anything will grow. You will notice yourself building a burning desire to make your goals a reality. Without this desire you will stop working towards your goals at the first sign of adversity.

Have you ever worked towards your goals and noticed yourself becoming discouraged before you reach them. If you have set goals for yourself and have them written out yet have not taken any action to make them a reality; today is the day to begin working towards them. Remember you create your life the way you want it to be. If things are not going exactly the way you would like it to; you have the power to begin changing it. However without the motivation to begin taking steps towards improving any area of your life; things will remain the same.

If your goal is to make more money you have to have the motivation of why you want to make more money. Ask yourself “why do you want to make more money?” Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Maybe you are tired of working long hours and not being able to purchase the things you would like to have. Whatever the reason you have, are the reasons you will need to build the motivation to keep working towards your goals. You must have a reason of why you want to improve something in your life. If you are content with the way things are; then you will never be able to overcome any adversities that come your way.

Read more…

‘Doc…I got this cough.’
‘Is it a light cough?’
‘No Doc it is a deep hacking cough like this….KUUH…KUUH’

‘Okay, anything else?’
‘Yeah, I got the shivers and this red bumpy rash.’
‘Oh, well you have got the jungle hemoglobin neuro-cardio virus. Take these pills for two weeks and you will be as good as new.’

Isn’t it amazing how a doctor can listen to the symptoms and then accurately diagnose what is ailing you? Well, if you are in sales you should be able to do the same. Listen to what your customers are telling you and it will tell you where you are going wrong in your presentation.

I recently heard a speaker say, ‘Yeah, I didn’t sell but one package of CDs – the owner stood up and said he was going to buy one package of CDs for the office library and everyone could share.’ The speaker then shook his head as if there was nothing he could have done to sell the group. I never heard that speaker’s sales pitch; however, I know exactly what he did wrong by listening to the symptoms. In his sales pitch, he sold the value of his products, which he should have done – however, he did not pitch the value of building your own personal development library. If he would have closed this way, the owner would have never of stood up and said he would buy one for the group to share because he would have been contradicting the value of your own personal library that was just discussed.
Read more…

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.”

– Mary Manin Morrissey

Journaling is a great way to release and let go. To get things off your chest. Our minds are our own worst enemies. The same thoughts go round and round in the same old ways and keep us stuck.

If something bothers you, write about it. Get it out so you can see it from a different perspective. Let it out. Let it go.

Owning and healing your pressure cooker is an important step in claiming your power, building your esteem and making your stand.

“In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.”

– Swami Brahmanada

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

– Sigmund Freud

Why is this so?

Young children possess what Zen calls ‘beginner’s mind.’ They are awed and fascinated with the wonder of the world, open to discovering and experiencing new things. Anything is possible. Life is a great adventure.

For almost all of us, the systems that ‘educate’ us to be adults stifle our natural joy and curiosity. We lose touch with our innate appreciation of life. We forget how to dream.

The blessing is that with attention, patience and love, we can reawaken our sense of wonder. We can again dance with life.

“The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.”

– Grace Llewellyn

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”  
- Seneca: Philosopher, statesman, dramatist

It’s been said that being poor is not a reflection of your bank account, but rather a state of mind. There are those who are practically penniless, yet because of their determination and aspirations to achieve success, they are not poor. It’s perfectly natural to want to be rich. We all want that. But it’s also important to appreciate what you do have; relish your life, your family, and your friends.

“Our strength grows out of our weakness” said Ralpoh Waldo Emerson. Not until we are pricked and stung and sorely shot at, awakens the indignation which arms itself with secret forces. Srife ans struggle can inspire you to overcome adversity and to propoel yourself to real achievement. View every struggle as an opportunity for personal growth. It is the struggle itself, not the result , that builds character. If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know wuestions your judgement. When you prevail, and you eventually will if you stick to the job - they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

By Napoloen Hill 

The only way you will ever truly succeed in this new knowledge-based economy is to become a star at work, that is, an individual who stands far above the crowd and one who is totally unique in a world where most people are trying to be more alike. The moment you make a deep commitment to becoming a star at work and burning all your bridges to the person that you once were, your life will change in an unmistakable way. The day you decide to start acting like the person you were destined to become is the day that you begin to tap into the wellspring of human talents that will lead you to your own form of personal greatness.

These are not the simple musings of yet another professional thinker spouting hackneyed euphemisms in the hope that one day someone will take note. These are the hard, cold facts of life - and they have been so for hundreds of years. And to deny them and continue living a life of complacency is to abandon your duty to do something special with your life.

As Ashley Montagu observed: “The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”

To become a star at work and to start seizing some of the matchless opportunities that are out there in what I believe to be the most exciting time in the history of humanity, you first need to make the decision to raise the standards that you will work and live by commit to living by a benchmark far higher than anyone would have the right to expect from you. Take a good hard look at the way you spend your days and ask yourself whether your agenda reflects your priorities. If there is an incongruity between the activities you invest your energies in and the values you hope to live by, you have a problem and need to make some immediate course corrections. For example, if your goal is to have a meaningful and rewarding work experience but you devote your days spinning your wheels on mundane tasks that never advance your professional goals, you need to do refocus yourself on the things that truly count. If a rich and happy family experience is high on your list of life priorities but you have not been to your son’s soccer game in a year and you cannot remember the last time you sat down to do homework with your daughter, you need to sharpen your pencil and rework your schedule. The facts never lie and the activities of your schedule will ultimately reflect the quality of your life.

Read more…

“To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.”
– Author Unknown

The best thing about growing older for me has been discovering and becoming who I’ve been all along. Once that truth is uncovered and we recognize the beautiful souls that have been with us since the beginning of time, we’ll never go back.

There is such clarity in this awareness… to accept… love… respect and admire our unique qualities. It would be crazy now to hide this truth.

I can now speak from this truth with confidence. Yes, the words at first sounded foreign and sometimes stumbled out because I didn’t recognize where they were coming from. Yet, my intuition felt right and inspired me to keep going until eventually my words were defining and strong. And with each word my confidence grows and looks more beautiful.

“If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.”
– Louise L. Hay