MOTIVATION, THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT
Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting
flunked grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts
remind us of our inability to look for a source of income. Being
humiliated gives us the 'push' to speak up and fight for
ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may
be a bitter experience, a friend's tragic story, a great movie,
or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the
right amount of motivation we need in order to improve
ourselves.
With the countless negativities the world brings about, how do
we keep motivated? Try on the tips I prepared from A to Z...
A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and
places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "the future belongs to
those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.
C - Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes
from determination. To be able to understand life, you should
feel the sun from both sides.
D - Don't give up and don't give in. Thomas Edison failed once,
twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and
perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your
steering wheel.
E - Enjoy. Work as if you don't need money. Dance as if nobody's
watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you'll live
forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.
F - Family and Friends - are life's greatest 'F' treasures.
Don't loose sight of the
G - Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and
self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When
you exert extra effort in doing things.
H - Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a
moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.
I - Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don't let other people
to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people - the kind of
friends who hates to hear about your success.
J - Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And
the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
K - keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person
is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing
out, paving the way to self improvement. L - Learn to love your
self. Now isn't that easy?
M - Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put
into work clothes.
N - Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.
O - Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and
horse sense. They see things in 2 ways - how they want things to
be, and how they should be.
P - Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It
lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our
mistakes.
Q - Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your
fate - are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?
R - Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We
must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started
before others will get on their feet and try to push us around.
Remember, it wasn't raining when Noah build the ark.
S - Stop procrastinating.
T - Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives
synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self
improvement.
U - Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you
should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and
to be understood the second.
V - Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a
dry land.
W - Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to
believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of
motivation and self improvement.
X - X Factor is what will make you different from the others.
When you are motivated, you tend to put on "extras" on your life
like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for
friends, and so on.
Y - You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks
like you. Value your life and existence, because you're just
going to spend it once.
Z - Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!