From: Azidah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:09 AM
To: 'Microlink Staff'
Subject: A to Z of tips for motivation
A to Z of tips for motivation
A - Achieving your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places
because they will only drag you down. 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. Believe in your
possibilities and your dreams. Every advancement of humankind has
taken place because someone believed in themselves.
C - Consider all of the angles and aspects of everything you
encounter, whether it is people or situations. Motivation comes from
strength of purpose. Being able to see both points of view will give
you more chance of being successful and keeping those around you
motivated too.
D - Don't give up and don't give in. Every successful person from J
K Rowling to Walt Disney to Sylvester Stallone to Thomas Edison had
multiple failures before being successful. Sometimes their failures
or rejections ran into the hundreds before they achieved success.
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. Use your family and friends to help you stay
motivated. The big football teams have cheerleaders and fans to
encourage them. Your family and friends can be your cheerleaders and
fans. Use them to keep you going when you feel your motivation
drifting.
G - Give that little bit extra. Self improvement happens everywhere
all the time, whether you are at home, at work or at school. Anthony
Robbins tells us that the difference in effort between excellent and
outstanding is miniscule, yet the difference in rewards is massive.
Giving that little bit extra can put you into the outstanding.
H - Hang on to your dreams. There may be times when it looks bleak,
but hang on to your dreams. The night is darkest just before the
dawn. It is at this moment that you are closest to success and 95%
of people will give up. Push through this moment and you'll achieve
your dreams.
I - Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don't get involved in their
dramas or toxicity - just walk away. Surround yourself with people
who will encourage and support you. Remove those who want to pull
you down and watch you fail from your life. You'll find it much
easier to stay motivated.
J - Joy and gratitude. Perhaps two of the fundamentals for
motivation and success is to be joyful in what you do and grateful
for what you have.
K - Keep pushing forwards no matter how hard life may seem. In the
toughest moments you can choose to move forwards or to run away.
It's your decision - one path brings you closer to the success, the
other takes you away from it. Which do you want to follow?
L - Learn to love your self. This isn't as easy as it sounds for
most people, but by loving yourself you will be happier and more
motivated because you will believe you deserve what you achieve.
M - Make things happen. Motivation and success doesn't come from
sitting in front of the television drinking coke and eating pizza.
Take action and you'll achieve your dreams.
N - Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game. At the end
of the day, if you live a dishonest life, it will come back to you.
Living an honest, fair life allows you to be proud of what you do.
O - Open your eyes. Everyone has a set of blinkers that they wear
and see everything through them, i.e. how they would like things to
be. Look at life with open eyes and see things how they are, and see
them how you want them to be. Then take action to make it happen.
P - Practice makes perfect. The more you practice, the better you
become. A top sportsman doesn't reach their status through a single
practice or game. They practice harder and longer than anyone else,
and as such, are rewarded more than anyone else.
Q - Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, which do you
want to be?
R - Ready yourself. Always be ready to take advantage of the
opportunities and situations presented to you. Prepare in advance,
and ignore the voice telling you to put it off until tomorrow.
Remember, it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!
S - Stop procrastinating. You can put it all off until tomorrow, but
one day there will be no more tomorrows. Start procrastinating about
procrastinating and do tomorrows jobs today.
T - Take control of your life. Discipline and self control are
synonymous with motivation. So many people believe their lives are
out of their control. Look at your life in detail and you'll
discover you have more areas under your control than you think.
U - Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should
also learn how to listen. You have two ears and one mouth for a
reason. Understand others and strive to be understood.
V - Visualise it. Your sub-conscious knows no difference between
your imagination and reality, so if you rehearse your success in
your mind, then your sub-conscious will believe in it and make it
happen.
W - Want it more than anything. Every successful person has had a
burning desire to achieve their goals. The Wright brothers didn't
invent the aeroplane because there was nothing on the television.
They had a burning desire to succeed and kept going, even in the
face of setbacks.
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.
This X-Factor sets you aside from the crowd and marks you out for
success.
Y - You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, thinks or
talks like you. Value your unique gifts, whatever they are and use
them for your success.
Z - Zero in on your dreams and make it happen!!!
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