Are You Holding On To Your Motivation? |
Posted: February 27, 2012 |
While becoming motivated may be one the simplest things in the world, staying motivated is sometimes a difficult task. Many times people get excited and motivated only to run out of steam later when it really counts. If you are trying to create an income from home, motivation will be needed for the long haul.
Motivation is something that causes a person to take specific actions towards a goal. Other words synonomous with motivation are incentive, drive, inspiration and enthusiasm. Do any of these words describe you and the way you set about to run your business? If not, you may be lacking motivation. Motivation will take you far. When times get rough and tough, motivation will hold you up as you keep taking actions towards your goal. Some people are naturally more motivated than others. Every morning it seems as if these highly motivated people, jump out of bed and hit the ground running like they’ve just had four shots of an energy boosting drink. They just keep going and going like they are super human while others views of them range from admiration to skepticism. A highly motivated person just seems to accomplish so much while their less motivated counterparts are dragging, procrastinating and whining and almost always fall way short of reaching any of their goals. Their blogs are up to date, their lists are consistently being built and communicated to and they are always striving to take it to the next level. That is my goal for 2012, to take it to the next level. The more I do the closer I get to reaching my goals. For every one of us those goals may be different. For me some of my goals may be adding more PLR content to my site, building additional sites and increasing my list size and for you it may be making twice as many phone calls, blogging regularly, increasing your affiliate marketing profits and building an online presence. Your goals belong to you and you alone. You don’t have to compete with others, do the best that you can do and we all know when we are doing our best or not. Our best helps us to achieve results and basically if we aren’t doing our best with that goal in mind we’re just doing busy work. In order to reach your goals you must be motivated and believe your goal is attainable. You could be just as successful as the next person if you are motivated, believe and put to action the things that you learn. Motivation isn’t a one sized fits all and can come in many forms. Once you find your motivation you need to hold on tight to it. I sometimes find my motivation in the ebooks I read, in an email from someone I’m subscribed to, a motivating blog post I read or even from things I might hear in a webinar or audio. I find motivation in many places. As a busy stay at home, home schooling mom, I simply don’t have time to waste, playing around on the internet. I’m in it to win it. May sound cliche, but it’s the truth. Success is the only option for me or I need to pack it up and call it quits if I feel otherwise. Where do you find motivation? Do you hold onto it? Imagine yourself falling from a boat into a river and a few feet away there was a lifeboat. Wouldn’t you do anything in your power to reach that lifeboat and hold on for dear life. Your motivation is your lifeboat when you are running a business or for life in general really. It will help you through the depressing times when you feel like giving up. It will help you find new ways to reach your goals. It’s not good enough to have small bouts of motivation followed by long bouts of lack. This happens to many people in and out of the home based business world. The more motivated you are the more likely it is that you will seek out more and reach higher for success. You’ll make those calls you need to make, build those websites that need building or market what needs advertising. Motivation will propel you to bigger and better things as you build on what you are already doing over time. You will find that you are able to keep going consistently and that you are able to finish tasks and move on to the next. Success isn’t a destination. There is always a higher level. You need to maintain and expand your success. Make 2012 your best year yet. Your motivation can take you there.
To Your Success! Alice Coaxum
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