What motivates you? How do you stay motivated?
Positive motivation is when you have your eye on achieving something at the end of the day. A negative motivator drives you to get yourself out of an unpleasant situation, like current living circumstances.
The problem with positive motivators is that there is often no recompense for giving up. Your life doesn’t depend on succeeding so life goes on whether you succeed or not. People do amazing things when they’re motivated to win something or driven by the prospect of achievement. People give up on things they never really wanted in the first place. Comfortable or entitled people usually aren’t the most motivated by anything–after all–if you have it already, you don’t need it.
Decide what motivates you and use both the positive and negative motivators in your life you drive you to bettering you life. On a daily basis ask yourself:
1. What will happen if I don’t do this?
In the end will those critics and doubters get the chance to say, “haha I told you so, always knew you could never do it.” or “I knew you’d never get that deal” or “The closest you’ll ever get to owning that car is test driving it…”
2. How much closer will I be to my goal if I do?
Great achievement starts with great desire to get what you want. If we didn’t all work towards what we wanted we wouldn’t need to get out of bed in the morning.
90% is Your Response.
You can use fear to motivate you and increase your drive or you can allow it to destroy you. It was Zig Ziglar that said, “10% is what happens to you, 90% is your response.” You allow negativity, fear and inadequacy to keep you down. On the converse negativity, fear and inadequacy can become your motivators. Your naysayers also become your motivators. What happens isn’t as important as HOW you respond to what happens.
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That was quite an inspiring article. Short but still very contentful. Thanks for the good readings!