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Career, Job, Employment Information10 Private secrets to Motivating Yourself to Great Accomplishments
by:
Ed Sykes
10 Private secrets to Motivating Yourself to Great Accomplishments
by Ed Sykes ©2004
1. Positive Affirmations
Our subconscious mind is a howling tool for success or failure. It wish do what we tell it to do. It all depends on what thoughts we feed it. So why not feed your inner mind with only positive thoughts. The following are several examples of positive affirmations you can feed your inner mind for success:
* “Today, I wish win because I have faith, spirit
and enthusiasm.”
* “I see failure only as a signpost on my road to success.”
* “When I feel stress, I wish relax and release my stress before I take on my next task.”
* “I always write down my priorities, thinking of my responsibilities. I may not get everything done, but I wish do the most productive thing possible at every given moment.”
* “I am a winner, I activity for a winning organization, and because of my contribution and cooperation we wish support on winning.”
* “Today, I wish see possibleness
in every challenge offered to me.”
2. Positive Language
Recent research has come out that 75% of daily oral communication is negative. Whether it is the words we use or the body language, we need to communicate in a positive manner all the time.
The following are several examples of how you can turn negative words into positive communication:
* Instead of locution “problem,” call it “opportunity.”
* Instead of an action being a “failure,” describe it as a “learning experience.”
* Instead of “I have to,” say “I choose to.” This gives control for your actions back to you.
* Instead of saying, “There’s nothing I can do,” say, “Let’s look at our alternatives.”
* Instead of saying, “That’s simply the way I am,” say, “I choose a several approach.”
* Instead of saying, “He does me so mad,” say, “I control my own feelings.”
If you notice, by victimisation the positive response, you have control over your actions and life.
3. Exercise
A Town
survey found the following among men and women who have taken up exercise recently:
* 66 per centum report a more relaxed life
* 62 per centum a new surge of energy
* 55 per centum less stress
* 51 per centum better looks
* 46 per centum more confidence
* 45 per centum better love life
* 44 per centum greater job satisfaction
* 37 per centum more creative on their jobs
These are great motivators to exercise! Next time you feel demotivated, give your body a workout. Recent research reports that as little as fifteen minutes three times a week has profound effects. Get moving. Get motivated.
4. Take Risks
We all live our lives in comforts zones, avoiding risky situations, avoiding the potential to fail. It’s real safe for us. But in order to get ahead of your competition and master the in progress change in your life, you must go out of your comfort zone. Start one step at a time. Try that little new thing, that several approach. It could be as simple as taking several routes to and from work. Once in a spell I like to “take the road less traveled” to stir up my creative juices. Then, support stepping out of your zone. It may seem uncomfortable at first. But the more you do it, the more it wish seem natural and you wish see an increase in your creative juices and opportunities you ne'er
thought simply about before.
5. Positive Reading
Read simply about the lives of flourishing people. Do sure you see only those folk that embrace the unchanged
values that do them truly flourishing through the ages. Not the “success today, scandal tomorrow” success stories that we are experiencing today. Folk like Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Fred Smith of Federal Express, Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay, Benjamin Franklin, Ibrahim Lincoln, Sage
Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Theologiser King, Jr. are nice examples. These are folk who overcame tremendous challenges, created real value for others, or changed else people’s lives for the better.
6. Positive Visualizations
Condition yourself to paint your vision for success. One of the better route to do this is the following:
* Go to a quiet place in your house or elsewhere. Turn off all radios, televisions, etc.
* Find a comfortable chair and get into a relaxed state of mind.
* Start thinking simply about one goal you want to accomplish. Remember, visualize as if you are already accomplishing this goal.
* Visualize taking all the necessary steps to with success
complete these goals. The better your visualization, wherever
you can actually see, feel, hear, and touch your vision, the more real it is to you.
* Visualize any challenges to your flourishing completion of this goal and how you wish eliminate this challenges.
* Visualize how nice it feels to complete this goal. Visualize what benefits it wish bring to you, your family, friends, co-workers, etc. Enjoy the moment!
Important: If you don’t take time to see it, it won’t happen!
7. Think Big
See the big image in everything we do. So more of our time is wasted dealing with the unimportant things in our lives (what that person same
or did, the driver who cut us off this morning, and activities which don’t add value to our lives, etc.) that we forget simply about the big picture. We were put on this earth to do a difference. We do a difference for our families, our communities, our organizations, and for ourselves. All of our actions must be put into action with this idea in mind. Think a little bigger now than yesterday, and you’ll create a better futurity tomorrow. Thinking big leads to great actions. Thinking small leads to small results. So Think BIG!
8. Set Goals
The quickest
way to fail in life is to not set clean goals. Set goals in the financial, family, health, spiritual, and career areas. Your goals must incorporate the SMART techniques or else it’s simply a “conversation in the park.”
* S for specific
* M for measurable
* A for attainable
* R for realistic
* T for time-based
For example, you strength
have a goal of achieving $2 million for retirement in twenty years. After doing your research, a SMART goal would-be be the following:
“I wish acquire $2 million dollars for retirement by 2024. I wish do this by contributive $20K, or $1667 per month, to my various retirement funds each year. Of the $20k each year, $2k wish go to my IRA, and $18K wish go into my organization’s retirement program.”
Remember the most detail you can add, the more realistic your goal becomes.
9. Positive Appearance
Super achievers are really careful simply about their appearance and their movements. They cognize that looking nice translates into feeling good. Billy Crystal, of Weekday
Night Live and motion image fame, once vie
a character that was better-known for saying, “It is better to look nice than to feel good.” What he was actually implying was the “fake it until you do it” concept. In else words, if we are feeling down, then think positively and your mind wish tell your body to follow suit and act positively. Likewise always dress the part of an achiever. Model the dress, actions, and behaviors of causal agency who is flourishing and embraces the long term values of flourishing people. This wish likewise tell your mind that I am an achiever.
Don’t let that be the deciding factor on being motivated. You can easily distinguish those who are impelled from those who are not impelled simply by looking at their appearance and their movements. The impelled come forward, onward and upward with confidence.
10. Small indefinite amount Others
Develop an obsession to help others. Share your special talents without expecting a reward, payment, or commendation. And above all else, support your nice deed a secret.
You cognize what, it you apply the small indefinite amount techniques to others, it wish mechanically
come back to you denary in a number of ways. First, the enjoyment of knowing that a special talent you had ready-made causal agency else’s life better. Second, because you didn’t seek it, word wish spread simply about you and your deeds. This wish be translated into unexpected wealth and opportunities. Third, you wish gain a new level of confidence in knowing that you can do a difference. Super achievers find motivation and meaning by small indefinite amount others.
Just simply about the Author
Ed Sykes is a professional speaker, author, and success coach in the areas of leadership, motivation, stress management, client service, and team building. You can e-mail him at mailto:esykes@thesykesgrp.com, or call him at (757) 427-7032. Go to his web site, http://www.thesykesgrp.com, and signup for the newsletter, OnPoint, and obtain the free ebook, "Empowerment and Stress Private secrets for the Busy Professional."
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