How To Motivate Yourself To Tackle Those Chores
In today’s busy world, there never seems that there is enough time to get everything done. The days are too short, the time just passes by too quickly and that “Honey Do” list seems to get longer by the minute. Why is that?
Perhaps it seems that there are never enough hours in the day to get to all the things you have to do because things on that “To Do” list aren’t tasks that you look forward to. You try not to think about it, you procrastinate, you don’t give it a proper place on your priority list, or you don’t place it there at all. You know those chores need to get done but you go about your day finding other things to do, or waste your energy coming up with excuses for not doing them.You may not realize that it is you that will ultimately suffer by your non-actions.
By putting things off, you are just adding to the problem. Take a minute and think of this example: one of those chores that you dread, could be dealing with those monthly bills and trying to balance your budget. It might be something that you are not really looking forward to, especially if finances are tight. By not tackling that chore and ignoring it or pushing it aside, it becomes an open wound that starts to fester. Your “balance owing” will start to increase in size with interest charges. Not only that, your credit rating will be affected which in turn will have a negative impact on any future plans. Your life is certain to be interrupted by nagging phones calls from collection agencies and your stress level will also increase that now impacts your health. All this could have been avoided, had you dealt with the issue at hand properly and in a timely manner.
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson
There is great wisdom in Thomas Jefferson’s words and they are definitely words to live by. Find motivation in those words to alter your thinking and take action. It’s all in how you approach things.
Change your way of thinking. Look for ways to pretty up that “To Do” list with check marks. With each check mark for a task completed, you will feel a weight lifted and experience a sense of accomplishment. Turn the “have to” chores into “want to” adventures. It will make you more effective and more satisfied at the same time.
Act in Faith
Quote of the Day – “Faith is thinking something is true to the extent we act upon it. ” W.T. Purkiser
Act in faith is a principle that must be learned by experience. Faith without works is dead. Most people, regardless of their faith, are familiar with that verse of scripture in the Bible from James. However, the idea of blind faith is ridiculous. However that is a far as many individuals ever get. They have no idea that James was talking about having faith in God. Faith in faith doesn’t work. Faith in the power of the living God does work.
You have to place your faith in something powerful enough to accomplish the goal you have in mind. You can place your faith in self but self is limited to your knowledge and experience.
Faith in God is unlimited and it makes more sense to trust in an unlimited power instead of the limited power of self.
Self might be able to accomplish a few task on this earth but still it is limited.
The key to accomplishing a major goal an impossible goal is to trust in the living God to help you accomplish the goal. You can’t accomplish anything without first having faith then act in faith.
You can’t jump off the highest building in the world and expect to live. However, if you get a glider, parachute, or a small plane to fly off the building with you will accomplish your goal. First you must have the power greater than self a glider, parachute or a small plane. Second, you have to trust the tool to get you to the bottom safely. You will never accomplish your goals with just faith or with just the act.
You want to get to the bottom of the building but you must first have faith in the power or tool then act on the faith.
I think I might be complicating this subject. Maybe not, act in faith. Have faith in a power greater than self because self is limited. Trust in self you will accomplish little chores. Trust in God and you will move a mountain.
Faith in action is critical to accomplish any goal in life. I want you to take a faith test. Pick someone you think you can trust. I dare you to try little faith test. Have someone stand behind you. You face away from the person and close your eyes. Ask the person to catch you as you fall backwards into their arms. Can you do it without flinching. I can’t do this very well because I have a trust issue with people.
To be honest, at times I have a trust issue with God. Yet, in order to move forward in my life I have to trust others and trust God to catch me when I fall.
Remember faith requires actions.
By: Dr Bob Wilkerson
How To Figure Out The Passion Within You
Ever wonder how to figure out your innermost passion, your purpose, your why? Are you asking yourself “Ay, caramba, what is he talking about?”
What is it that fuels you to be your best, to get up early, to stay up late, to keep on practicing day after day? Is it your family? Is it a desire for a better lifestyle? Could it be a simple and pure love of playing a particular sport? Do you feel an all-consuming craving from deep inside that you must prove to yourself or someone else you have what it takes to be successful?
What is success to you? What is it you want? Where do you want to be? Who do you want to be?
Is it something materialistic? Is it being the head of a successful business? Does it mean you are truly able to help people, either through inspiration or through financial funding?
If you don’t know what your passion is and you’re not sure about how to figure out what it is, my hope is that this overview will help you discover what is lying within you that will energize you from this point forward.
Step one, reflect on what it is you really want, who you want to be. Write it down in detail. If this seems challenging, think about what you don’t like in your life right now. Maybe the answer lies within the realm of negative motivation. If you are sick and tired of what you’ve been getting in life, daydream for a while about what you do want.
Think of things that excite you, that make you feel like your endorphins are morphing out and turning into an uncontrollable burning desire. If you can get to this feeling, more than likely you now have a much better understanding of your passion.
Step two is to contemplate on the context of who you want to be. This begins with reflecting on and understanding who you are and what you don’t like about it.
What do you want to change the most? This will help you find out what’s right, who you really want to be. Envision your ultimate personal character, write down all of the details.
Figure out your specific goals for the next three months, six months and one year. Yep, you guessed it, teacher says “Write them down and prioritize them.”
What’s the big chip, the one main obstacle you can’t seem to let go of that is keeping you mired in the comfort rut of life? Think about the past serious commitments you have made that you never followed through on. What’s the commonality, the brick wall you keep running into? Is it a fear? Could it be a lifetime bad habit?
Speak with your mentor about developing a plan of action. If you don’t have one, think about people you admire. You may not necessarily have to know them personally. Use your creativity and take the initiative for how to introduce yourself to a leader you admire. This could be an author of a self-improvement book that has had a solid impact on you. Send them a friend request on Facebook. Reach out to them.
Cruise through your cranium, see if you can figure the bigger reasons you might have to take action to achieve your goals.
Being completely honest with yourself, reflect on what level, what type of integrity you want to have with everyone. Who is the single most important person to be in absolute integrity with? Hello? It’s YOU! Integrity begins within each of us. If we’re out of integrity with ourself, then we’re most likely out of integrity with others.
Now you must make sure you focus on every action being geared toward results! This means your focused actions will get you closer to your goals each and every day. This is the basic premise of what is known as the compounding effect. Consistent energy and action gets you closer to your chosen destination.
Work at reaching the point where you can achieving excellence with your day-to-day process. Mindset, organization, self-management, knowledge, and results oriented behavior are all contributing components of your overall soon to be leadership skill-set.
The bottom line is that your results are the only indicator of how you are doing, how you are progressing.
There Is No Need to Try and Fit In
I noticed that many people are trying to fit in, and just to be one of the crowd. Maybe, they are trying to hide in the middle of the masses, to avoid self discovery and to avoid success. So many people do just enough to get by without being recognized and in the end sabotage their own success.
The world’s system is designed to influence us that we must always try to “fit in”. To stay in the box that they have designed for us and told us many reasons why we should not get out, to dare to be our unique selves. We are too much of a threat when we just keep it real and be ourselves. Each of us are specifically designed to perform a task and carry out an assignment dedicated to making the earth a better place. Yet, we’re deceived into thinking we should be a certain size, height and what clothing we must wear. The pressure is placed on us to change our unique, individual style and taste, just to follow the crowd.
Who decided what normal is anyway? When each of us have so much more to do and be. There are still many books to be written, many songs to write and to sing, many poems to be written. Yes, many designs to create and many more discoveries to be uncovered. I am not at my best and neither are you. We are ever evolving, stretching, growing and learning. Yet our whole goal is to become better and better, and find ways to help others to live their best lives.
Everything on the earth that we enjoy and use, and in some cases cannot do without, began with an idea. So, what would you do if you knew you could not fail? There are no shortages in the earth, only a shortage of dreamers, inventions and trail blazers. Everything has not been done, and everything has not been discovered. Revive your dream, and believe in yourself again. Who is perishing because you have not discovered your true identity? It is time to reach on the inside of you and pull on the strength to try one more time. Your authentic self requires expression, and there is no need to compete or try to measure up to someone else. Let go of fear of failing and looking back. To stand out in the crowd means that you may get more eggs in the face, and that you are a better target for the “haters” and those who are stuck in average- ville and are afraid to step out into greatness.
I know that it not you, your destiny is calling, and a life of significance is just up ahead. The journey from ordinary to extraordinary is just to do the little “extra”. “Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today” Thomas Jefferson. Be bold and of good courage. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather.
by: Donna Russell
Why Do I Need A Coach?
You don’t! You can keep going the way you are and doing the things you are doing and expecting things to be different? But guess what? They won’t be different.
How are you going to create real success in all you do?
Have you addressed these questions.
1. Is fear of failure holding you back from real success in all you do?
2. Are you holding back making decisions because you might be wrong?
3. Are you afraid of taking the risk because you might look bad? Or it might cost you a great deal.
Why not ask these questions in a much more positive manner – what if:
1. You took the risk and it worked out?
2. You failed and it gave you more confidence in trying again?
3. It didn’t work, but led you to something even greater
As you begin your journey into the new year, there are 3 questions on the table that you need to address and 13 keys to addressing them.
1. Where are you going?
2. How are you going to get there?
3. When are you going to get started?
First one – where are you going?
1. Do you have a vision – do you know where you are headed?
2. How innovative are you in what you are doing? Are you doing everything from inside a box which limits your potential? Are you in the box?
3. How is your attitude? Do others want to be like you? Do others want to follow you? Or, do others avoid you because your attitude stinks?
4. How much courage do you have? Remember the opposite of courage is conformity.
Second – how you going to get there?
5. Do you have a written plan that addresses and shows you how you are going to get to where you want to go. A written plan with written goals, measurements and someone to keep you accountable.
6. What have you learned from this year and the past? Positive and negative. Remember, if you don’t do a lessons learned, you will keep making the same mistakes.
7. Do you have a servant attitude? How can I help you today?
8. How is you time management – not paper forms or schedules that are so detailed no one could ever follow them. I am talking about priority, priority, priority. Simple put, are you working the highest payback items first.
So, once you know were you are going and how to get there, the third step is simple – get up and do it.
9. Action – no matter what – if you do something, then something will happen. If you do nothing, then nothing will happen.
10. Persistence – do you refuse to give up? Do you refuse to lose? Do you keep on rolling even when it gets tough? Do you keep on rolling even when you “don’t feel like it?”
11. Disciple – simply put – do you do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it. Or has all that gone out the window?
12. Practice – you know how I feel on this one. I don’t care how long you been doing it. I don’t care how good you think you are. I have been selling for 30 years. I still spend 30 minutes almost every work day reading and learning to get better. Practice does make perfect although I am not there yet!
13. If you got this far, you are in business. The final step, or the step that encompasses it all. Listening. How good are you at closing the mouth and opening both ears. The better you are at it, the greater next year will be.
Get some help, implement you dreams, your vision, your goals. Make it happen in the next year.
How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Start?
If you have been tossed around, getting knocks, things not working for you or just want to start something new… You are in the right place. Forget about yesterday, last month or last year with all the disappointments; that is the past, let’s together focus on the future.
Here you will discover what your teachers have not told you, you will discover the true meaning of education, if you are older you will wish you could have come across this site at the earlier age. If you are young…. this is one of the best discovery you will ever come across in your lifetime. Take it seriously please.
If you have been in education, you will agree with me that school has taught you many things but very few if any you had ever been exposed to the true meaning of education. Have you ever been taught to apply what you were learning in order to achieve a life filled with happiness, accomplishment, and success? Did anyone ever tell you about goal setting? What about Financial Intelligent? What about going through education so that you can have a business of your own rather than going through education with a mind of landing a job of your life (which quite often does not happen).
Why educational institutions do not teach to apply what you learn? Is it because Success is difficult? Do you ever wonder or think that may be these institutions are trying to help the weak ones who can not handle the burden of success? Think about it.
It does not matter where you come from, what you want to do, every one of us wants to achieve better in life. Some of us it is a distant dream, other it is possible routine, while others KNOW that they have achieved before they even achieve. So why causes some to be successful and others not to be successful when we are born the same. (born naked, we all learn to breathe, eat, crawl, take the first step, we learn to talk and continue to grow until we develop into different unique human beings). When do we change? When does our aspirations start to change or to fade?
The answer might be painful to some of us and hard to bear. The majority of us have absolutely no idea how to begin to make our dreams come true. The majority of u have skills, tools needed to make our dreams come true but it seems that we never reach or accomplish the dreams. Why is that? Like I mentioned above, being equiped with tools and skills is pointless if that equiped person has no knowledge of how to use the tools and skills possessed.
Not once – neither in primary school, secondary school, college, university were you ever instructed on the simple techniques of setting goals, of motivating yourself and others, of dealing with adversity, of eliminating self-defeating habits, of using time profitably, of practicing the power of choice, of developing self-confidence, of doing the things you are afraid to do, of generating enthusiasm at will, of organizing your life, of accumulating wealth, of getting people to give you what you want, of looking like a winner, of guiding your children, of handling stress, of counting your blessings… and so much more. Congratulation to you because you have managed to survive at all is a tribute to your courage and faith.
How Can One Begin the Journey of Entrepreneurship?
The beginning of entrepreneurship will be to define success. What is success? When do you feel you are successful? When do you feel you are not successful? The reason I am asking you these questions is because success can mean different things to different people.
When you are about to embark on the journey of entrepreneurship, you must make up your mind that you really know what success means to you before you take off. Probably you have heard of people who go after what they are seeking and only realize later on that they are missing certain aspect of their lives.
Personally I would like to define success in the categories. Your health and fitness, your wealth creation and your relationships with others. These are 3 main areas that you have concentrate on while pursuing your dreams. Most of the times people follow one out three and wonder why they are frustrated despite the success they have in that one part.
Entrepreneurs sometimes forget that health and relationship are important only to realize that when they have accumulated wealth but other part of their lives are not working. Therefore I will suggest that when you start to pursue your dream, you make sure that you have goals in all three aspect so that you don’t overlook any part of life.
Entrepreneurship requires a different spirit. Forget what you have been taught in class The great myth that if you grow up… go to school and get your degree… find a job where you work for an employer – many times unrecognized as an individual – but work hard none-the-less… climbing the ladder to the top and put in thirty-plus years of hard work you can one day…possibly… own a home?… have a mediocre savings?… and…. retire?
The truth is that many of the individuals who follow down this path to success find themselves forced to come out of retirement and rejoin the workforce a few years later… often in a minimum wage job and having less freedom.
Yeah, it may be true that right now you’re:
A student still wondering what you want to do with the rest of your life or what direction you will take
An employee that soars above the rest with grand ideas and visions that up to this point have put a lot of money in your employers pocket
A person that has a single idea… with a passion to bring a project to life… but you’re struggling with how to start your business
The rebel that desires freedom… and money… and could never see yourself being tied down to an office cubicle
Someone with grand dreams and visions of how you would like to live your life… but you’re held back by fear of failure
Quite often referred to as being “unemployable”
All the above people’s categories are frustrated and need to break free. It is very hard and nearly impossible to believe that you can break loose by following education system, you have to find people who have walked the path. You have to find mentors who can direct you and educate you on what you have to do in order to become a successful entrepreneur.
Once you find someone or a couple of individuals who have gone through what you want to do, ask them to nurture you, follow their inputs, join your local business chambers, mastermind groups and eventually you will start to develop an entrepreneurship mind.
Recently there was a movie that was produced for people who want to become entrepreneurs. The producers realized that there is a great number of people like I mentioned above, who wanted to break free but did not know what to do. Therefore they decided to interview at least 35 successful young entrepreneurs who started from zero how they managed their businesses and become millionaires. These entrepreneurs revealed a lot and I believe that as you are about or have already embarked on the entrepreneur journey, you might benefit from what they were talking and discussing during the interviews.
Some of the issues they revealed are that:
The greatest enemy of achievement and how many entrepreneurs fall into this trap
Why ignoring your passion can backfire because you’ll just get trapped in the JOB cycle
How to capitalize on existing ideas
The importance of perception and how to exploit it
How to jump from idea to market using a simple source of information
Why it is critical to exploit your mistakes
How the people you keep company with could be holding you back from success
Why if there’s no risk… there’s no return
How customers can finance your venture
Why you need to enter each venture with a heart of service
The key to dealing with people and why you should spend 90% of the time talking about them, not your pitch
What comes first…prospects…or capital?
How to start asking yourself the right questions to get the results you want
The truth about the law of attraction… and the missing step that you haven’t been told
How to monetize your idea
What real failure is…and it’s not a failed attempt
The reality of what you’re really risking as an entrepreneur… The image in your head is a lot scarier than the facts
How to avoid launching a product…just to find out that nobody wants it
If you can understand the points above, there is no good reason why you can become a successful entrepreneur but there is a trap!!! No one can do this for you, it must be you and you alone. You have to take action regularly otherwise nothing can work out for you at all.
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