Developing Good Habits
Key to Staying Motivated: Become an Inspiration to Others
When it comes to motivation, there is nothing more motivating then when someone says to you, “Because of what you said, wrote or did, I stepped out and took action and these are the positive results that I have accomplished.” Doesn’t that make you want to take a more proactive stance and do more things […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Why fear and HOPE may be holding you back…
Some of you may be saying, “Come on, John. How can hope possibly hold you back?” When you think of hope, what do you think of? Do you think about the things that you “hope” to do? or Do you think of the things that you “hope” to change outside of yourself? It all depends […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Working within YOUR Circle of Influence
One of the major keys to staying motivated is to make sure that you are constantly working on things that you have complete control over, and all these things fall under your circle of influence. Working within your circle of influence requires you to work on only two things: 1. What you think and 2. […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Results is the Name of the Game!
“Results is the Name of the Game.” – Jim Rohn When it comes to being motivated and staying focused on your goals, it is the results that you achieve that count not the intention of getting there. It is unclear of the origin of this quote but it goes like this, “The road to hell […]
Key to Staying Motivated: How are you doing so far in the 2nd Half of 2010?
We’re one month down in the 2nd half of 2010, have you made any headway into your 2nd half goals? Well if not… it is still not too late to get rolling but don’t put it off for another day. There is no better time to get going on the goals that are really important […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Get Rid of the HIDDEN Excuses…
As we progress through life, we pick a lot of assumptions and prejudices along the way. This is a natural thing that happens and some of these assumptions help us remain safe while others hold us back from the success we desire and deserve if we are willing to pay the price. Some of the […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Not Relying on Others to Change in Order to Make You Happy
People often come to me with this scenario… If only this person would (fill in the blank). or I only wish this person would (fill in the blank). This is a fundamental flaw in thinking that has left a lot of people very unhappy for the their entire lives. The only person who is responsible […]
Key to Staying Motivated: What to do when you are not seeing results…
So here is the scenario… You have been working on your goal and you have gotten some results but you seem to have stalled and you don’t know what you are doing wrong. This is a very frustrating situation and a situation that may cause you to give up if you don’t know what to […]
Key to Staying Motivated: Do Something Everyday that Moves you Forward towards your goal…
One of the major keys to living a successful life is having goals but it takes daily action to make those goals a reality. Here’s a quick question: What goals are you destined NOT to reach? The goals that you do not take daily action to achieve. It’s that simple. If you are not taking […]
Key to Staying Motivated: The two things that we have COMPLETE control over…
This should become a eye opener for some out there who may feel that everything is stacked up against them. There are a couple of things that we have COMPLETE control over…. Those things are: 1. Our Thoughts 2. Our Actions No matter what is happening in our lives good or bad, we have complete […]