Motivation is an emotion that allows you to have the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of whether you feel like it or not. One of the main reasons people fail to achieve their goals is because of inaction. It's easy to say or think about what you are going to do but actually doing what you say takes commitment. It's not that people have a hard time taking action once. Anyone can motivate themselves to get to the gym to workout one time. It's being able to consistently take action that is the challenge for most people.
In order to have the motivation and inspiration to continually do what needs to be done in order to produce the results that you want in your life, you need the right tools. The tools on this site will help you take that initial step as well as help you keep going when you feel discouraged. Once those actions become a habit, taking action becomes easy.
Here are some of my favorites - Sebastian
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“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make.
Forget your past. Who are you now??.... Who have you decided you really are now? .....Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now?..... Who have you decided to become?...... Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”
-Tony Robins
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« I’d rather attempt to do something great...... and fail, than to attempt to do nothing......... and succeed. » Robert Schuller
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Here are some of my favorites - Sebastian
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Forget your past. Who are you now??.... Who have you decided you really are now? .....Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now?..... Who have you decided to become?...... Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”
-Tony Robins
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated!
Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome."
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Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. ~Robert Brault,_________________________________________________
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— Malcolm X
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Don’t bring your need to the event,.. Bring your skill!
Jim Rohn
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“you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
― Les Brown
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― Les Brown
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THINK ABOUT PURPLE SNOWFLAKES!!
I'll bet you read that sentence twice. Of course, that's the whole
idea to get your attention.
I've found that many people are a little timid, even frightened, to stand out, to do things a little differently.
They worry about what people are going to think, or what they are going to say, or that their efforts will be perceived as foolish, or that they won't reall
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work. In marketing, however, the whole idea is to get someone, or a group of people, to take a look at what you're selling, asking for, or offering.
The notion of purple snowflakes is a metaphor for standing out in the crowd. In our world of incredible competition and sheer volume, it's more important than ever to stand apart. You certainly don't want to fade into the background. As long as the product or service you are marketing is at least as good as everyone else's, standing out -- offering purple snowflakes -- will often make the difference. Author Seth Godin calls it "Purple Cows"
When I really want someone to open the mail I'm sending them, for example, I send it via Federal Express or some other overnight delivery service. Obviously, this is a much more expensive route, but think about the tradeoff for a moment. Suppose you're sending a request to a famous and/or super-busy person who receives dozens of requests each day. If you, like virtually everyone else, simply send your request in a regular business envelope, the chances are excellent that it will be days, perhaps even weeks, before the person even opens your letter. Yet very few people, irrespective of how famous or busy they are, can resist opening an overnight delivery package. Now that they have opened your mail, there's a chance they will respond favorably. In this case, your "purple snowflake" was the Federal Express package itself. I can assure you that if your request is granted, you'll be sold on the idea of purple snowflakes.
A friend of mine, in my eyes a marketing genius, wanted to get an exprofessional football player to invest in his business. The business was solid and an excellent opportunity. The problem was that this particular exathlete, known in part for the wealth he had been able to amass, was approached by all sorts of credible entrepreneurs on a daily basis. It was fairly common knowledge that he had essentially stopped reading the request letters.
My friend, adept at creating purple snowflakes, wanted to overcome this obstacle because he knew that if he could just get the athlete to read his reports, that he would seriously consider the investment opportunity. So here's what he did: He taped his request to an actual NFL football and sent it to the man. Needless to say, the former football star recognized the shape of the package, was curious, and opened it immediately. Within a few days my friend received a personal call -- not from a secretary, from the athlete himself -- congratulating him on his incredible creativity. The athlete asked my friend to dinner, telling him that, as long as the numbers checked out, and everything was ethical, as it seemed to be, he would be honored to do business with someone who was so clever.
Obviously, not every purple snowflake is going to be so well received. But instead of giving up, and without becoming obnoxious about it, see if you can create another purple snowflake. Drop your fears about how your snowflakes will be received. As they say in Hollywood, any attention is better than no attention.
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Faced With Distractions, We Need Willpower
Mustering willpower is a struggle for almost everyone - and it's getting harder. We, as individuals and as a society, lack self-control at precisely the time we need it most.
Willpower is about more than resisting our bad habits. It's the mental discipline that allows us to cultivate good habits, make better decisions, and control our own behaviors -
everything from dieting effectively to powering through difficult problems at work.
It's a quality that can separate the most productive businesspeople from the least productive. And it's a trait that many of us lack. Surveys of more than 1 million people show that self-control is the character trait modern men and women recognize least in themselves.
Our environment only exacerbates the problem. The jungle of stimuli that engulfs us each day make it difficult to exercise restraint or focus on the important habits we need to build or tasks we need to accomplish. Nicholas Carr has argued in his book, The Shallows, that the internet is destroying our ability to concentrate and read or think deeply; and as John Tierney and Roy Baumeister point out in their book, Willpower, a typical computer user checks out more than three dozen websites per day.
Focusing on an important memo is hampered by the distraction of Facebook and the incessant new email notifications blinking on our smartphones. Our ability to read a book is handicapped by the impatience of our 140-character habits. Even as I write this article, I'm tempted to snack, surf Wikipedia, check Twitter, or switch to another task.
But willpower is an essential quality you'll need for personal effectiveness at work, forcing yourself to prioritize the most important items on your to-do list, powering through an endless day of difficult decisions, or simply resisting the urge to eat that extra bag of chips in the office snack room. Want to grow your business or get that promotion at work? Cultivating willpower may be your quickest route to success.
written by George Fraser.
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work. In marketing, however, the whole idea is to get someone, or a group of people, to take a look at what you're selling, asking for, or offering.
The notion of purple snowflakes is a metaphor for standing out in the crowd. In our world of incredible competition and sheer volume, it's more important than ever to stand apart. You certainly don't want to fade into the background. As long as the product or service you are marketing is at least as good as everyone else's, standing out -- offering purple snowflakes -- will often make the difference. Author Seth Godin calls it "Purple Cows"
When I really want someone to open the mail I'm sending them, for example, I send it via Federal Express or some other overnight delivery service. Obviously, this is a much more expensive route, but think about the tradeoff for a moment. Suppose you're sending a request to a famous and/or super-busy person who receives dozens of requests each day. If you, like virtually everyone else, simply send your request in a regular business envelope, the chances are excellent that it will be days, perhaps even weeks, before the person even opens your letter. Yet very few people, irrespective of how famous or busy they are, can resist opening an overnight delivery package. Now that they have opened your mail, there's a chance they will respond favorably. In this case, your "purple snowflake" was the Federal Express package itself. I can assure you that if your request is granted, you'll be sold on the idea of purple snowflakes.
A friend of mine, in my eyes a marketing genius, wanted to get an exprofessional football player to invest in his business. The business was solid and an excellent opportunity. The problem was that this particular exathlete, known in part for the wealth he had been able to amass, was approached by all sorts of credible entrepreneurs on a daily basis. It was fairly common knowledge that he had essentially stopped reading the request letters.
My friend, adept at creating purple snowflakes, wanted to overcome this obstacle because he knew that if he could just get the athlete to read his reports, that he would seriously consider the investment opportunity. So here's what he did: He taped his request to an actual NFL football and sent it to the man. Needless to say, the former football star recognized the shape of the package, was curious, and opened it immediately. Within a few days my friend received a personal call -- not from a secretary, from the athlete himself -- congratulating him on his incredible creativity. The athlete asked my friend to dinner, telling him that, as long as the numbers checked out, and everything was ethical, as it seemed to be, he would be honored to do business with someone who was so clever.
Obviously, not every purple snowflake is going to be so well received. But instead of giving up, and without becoming obnoxious about it, see if you can create another purple snowflake. Drop your fears about how your snowflakes will be received. As they say in Hollywood, any attention is better than no attention.
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Mustering willpower is a struggle for almost everyone - and it's getting harder. We, as individuals and as a society, lack self-control at precisely the time we need it most.
Willpower is about more than resisting our bad habits. It's the mental discipline that allows us to cultivate good habits, make better decisions, and control our own behaviors -
everything from dieting effectively to powering through difficult problems at work.
It's a quality that can separate the most productive businesspeople from the least productive. And it's a trait that many of us lack. Surveys of more than 1 million people show that self-control is the character trait modern men and women recognize least in themselves.
Our environment only exacerbates the problem. The jungle of stimuli that engulfs us each day make it difficult to exercise restraint or focus on the important habits we need to build or tasks we need to accomplish. Nicholas Carr has argued in his book, The Shallows, that the internet is destroying our ability to concentrate and read or think deeply; and as John Tierney and Roy Baumeister point out in their book, Willpower, a typical computer user checks out more than three dozen websites per day.
Focusing on an important memo is hampered by the distraction of Facebook and the incessant new email notifications blinking on our smartphones. Our ability to read a book is handicapped by the impatience of our 140-character habits. Even as I write this article, I'm tempted to snack, surf Wikipedia, check Twitter, or switch to another task.
But willpower is an essential quality you'll need for personal effectiveness at work, forcing yourself to prioritize the most important items on your to-do list, powering through an endless day of difficult decisions, or simply resisting the urge to eat that extra bag of chips in the office snack room. Want to grow your business or get that promotion at work? Cultivating willpower may be your quickest route to success.
written by George Fraser.
It's a quality that can separate the most productive businesspeople from the least productive. And it's a trait that many of us lack. Surveys of more than 1 million people show that self-control is the character trait modern men and women recognize least in themselves.
Our environment only exacerbates the problem. The jungle of stimuli that engulfs us each day make it difficult to exercise restraint or focus on the important habits we need to build or tasks we need to accomplish. Nicholas Carr has argued in his book, The Shallows, that the internet is destroying our ability to concentrate and read or think deeply; and as John Tierney and Roy Baumeister point out in their book, Willpower, a typical computer user checks out more than three dozen websites per day.
Focusing on an important memo is hampered by the distraction of Facebook and the incessant new email notifications blinking on our smartphones. Our ability to read a book is handicapped by the impatience of our 140-character habits. Even as I write this article, I'm tempted to snack, surf Wikipedia, check Twitter, or switch to another task.
But willpower is an essential quality you'll need for personal effectiveness at work, forcing yourself to prioritize the most important items on your to-do list, powering through an endless day of difficult decisions, or simply resisting the urge to eat that extra bag of chips in the office snack room. Want to grow your business or get that promotion at work? Cultivating willpower may be your quickest route to success.
written by George Fraser.
