Motivation ABC

“I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”
Oprah Winfrey

Ambitions rule our heart- always! But there are times we feel we are bowed down with pressure and expectations, not only our own but also of loved ones. To excel under pressure is the quality of a true striker! Excellence is rather a journey than a destination as we all know or at least should know. All processes of excellence begin with what you do, what you say and how you think! If you start thinking negative, you have gone back two steps from each step that could have been a step forward to your success! Desire more from your self and give it your best shot. Do away with the weeds of the mind!

Today’s industry is indeed very competitive and you need to follow the example of the spider that fails a number of times to climb the wall but never gives up! The industry is definitely unforgiving with loads of expectations and commitments boggling you down each day. These are miniature trials and tests to what you are worth- so keep your cool, smile and keep working with a whistle. A smile wins everything without costing you anything! Try smiling forcibly even in the most tense situations and get back to me if you do not feel better.

Here we can talk of the woodcutter. He cut wood and that too, very fast. In the first week, he cut 15 trees and his boss was in awe and started praising him. He was inspired and started working with more zeal the next week but could cut only ten trees. The count was still above average and the boss praised him again. This time he was determined to cut more trees but made only five trees. Frustrated, he complained that he must have grown weaker. The boss simply asked, “When was the last time you sharpened your axe?”

We all are woodcutters with different sets of trees and different axes. The axes in business are our strategies, our core values and organization. Same strategies do not work for months and years. Like an axe has to be sharpened, strategies have to be modified and sharpened to fit in well. The same applies to the organizational powers of our brains as well. If you do not keep working at it, you are sure to lose your positive edge over the others.

To excel, you have to be enterprising- you have to keep your eyes and mind open and active all day long! You have to be confident, disciplined and creative enough to not give up! Remember, “Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently.” Buck up and let your creative juices flow… success is imminent.

When it comes to succeeding in business, you have to have a positive outlook on where you want to be. Many of us are living a dull, unfulfilling life just because we do not believe in ourselves and our ability to be successful. It is the fear of success that stops us from achieving anything and so if you really want to succeed then you need to let go of that fear.

Napoleon Hill once said:

“Create a Definite Plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

This quote is an extremely true one. If you want to achieve anything in life then you have to start planning ahead and getting into the right positive mindset.

Knowing what you want and determining How to get it

If you are constantly thinking about getting further in life but you have no idea where to start, the best thing to do is to write down what it is that you want. You will need to be more specific than “I want to become more successful” or “I want to earn more money”. Most people dream of earning more money and of being successful, but to each person success means something different.

What is your passion? If for example you love writing, your ideal dream job would obviously be a writer. Or if you have a passion for figures you could make an excellent accountant. Whatever you enjoy doing, you should have some idea of what job would best suit you. Once you have figured out exactly what it is that you would like to do you then have to figure out how to do it.

These days there is a lot of information to be found online and you can easily go into higher education if you wanted to. So if your current problem is that you simply do not have the right skills to do what you want to do, you can easily join a course and learn the appropriate skills that are needed. It will take you a couple of years at the most, but joining a course that will get you the skills that you need is the first step to changing your life.

The main thing that you have to remember is that time is not an issue. You can do something right now to change your life, even if it will take you years to complete what you need to get your ideal job. For example, inquiring about the skills that you will need is making a start. Joining a course would then be the next step and continuing on and completing that course would be the next step after that. If your dream job does not require any extra skills then applying for jobs that you like the sound of is your next step.

You just need a plan to help you to figure out what the next logical steps are that you need to take. If childcare is a problem for you then ask friends and relatives if they can help you out. No matter what your dilemma, you can succeed and you can get to where you want to be; you just have to fight the fear that is currently holding you back.