Motivation – From Building A Dream To Celebrating Success

Get Motivated to Achieve!

Motivation is intriguing. Sometimes, you need something big like a life events to turn you around – and sometimes, you only need a tiny motivator – a cute saying on a poster – to make you feel like you have to power to call your own shots.

Build a dream and fan the flames.

Big or small, it really doesn’t matter.  Al long as you have a dream, a goal, an objective, something you can hold on to, something to work for…that’s good enough to get you started.  Once you have identified that something you want to achieve,  visualize how you will feel when you achieve it.

Motivation: Getting Yourself Back on Track

Sometimes, all we need is something that can keep us motivated and get us back on track.  Maybe right now you are feeling like my story about “wet noodles” and need a little push.

Here are a few tips that I hope help you get back on track.

Appreciate failure - Many people find failure a bit too daunting. For them, failing – whether it’s a simple goal or a grand task – is enough to keep them from moving another finger. For successful people, failure is a teacher. It was difficult and demoralizing while they were at it.  But in retrospect, there is always something that can be gained from failing.

Communication and Correction in Business

As a leader in your team be careful what you send out.  Negatives can bring the whole team down, squish energy and slow down any momentum. Sending global angry emails to your group is never ever productive. Pick up the phone in those circumstances.  Email can build hard feelings and mistrust if you use it poorly.

Group correctional emails are also not usually productive. You need to use them sparingly (like almost never). Have a meeting with a few of your people that are messing up whatever it is, but don’t penalize the whole group for a few people. If you need to send a directional email that is fine, like a reminder that everyone needs to be on time or park in designated parking or whatever. Make it positive and even toned.

Practical Tips to Get Yourself Motivated

Wet Noodles…….  Wet noodles can have problems with starting a task or finishing…….  BUT….  The same goes with the rest of us.

It’s funny, I was always highly motivated to get things done, overachieve…….  Ahhhh…….  But wait……..  Always? Really? “Always” and “Motivation” almost never go hand in hand, anyone that says they are “always motivated” are either a machine or lying.

It’s funny, I remember in school being lazy……  My first job I was always on time and liked the people, I wasn’t lazy.  But then in my early 20′s I had a few bouts with laziness.  I finally found my internal motivation….  Winning…….  Yep, gold ole plain butt kicking other people……  Especially in sales and motivating others to over achieve for me……

Motivation is a Daily Battle in Your Mind

Motivation is a funny, complex thing.  You heard me talk about “pushing a wet noodle” in the last blog post, and how I have pushed “wet noodles” more than once.

The thing that motivates one person is always different from that of another even though they might be working for the same thing.  And while people can motivate other people, they can only do so to a certain degree.  This is very true!  While some of us are powerful motivators and appeal to 70-80% of people, we can’t motivate everyone, and there are some people out there who can’t even motivate a slug to move to a greener leaf!!