A strong sense of personal motivation is required for success in
life. It’s especially important when it comes to building a successful
business. It doesn’t matter if you’re building a real estate business, a
dry cleaning business, an Internet business, or a network marketing
business.
Challenges will come up in your business…challenges that must be met
and overcome. Whether or not you’re a positive and motivated individual
will go a long way in determining whether you’re successful with
overcoming all obstacles you face.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is to create a
business plan, open their business, get the day-to-day activities going,
but to never develop an overall life game plan. They have business
goals without personal life goals.
If you really want to have a strong sense of personal motivation,
you’ll need to have a life plan mapped out. First of all, how can you
possibly think you’ll achieve prosperity in any part of your life if you
don’t have a solid focus on where you’re going?
Secondly, without a written plan, how do you expect to stay motivated
long enough to keep working toward your goals when challenges meet you
and your business? A written reminder is much stronger than thoughts
that are wandering around in your mind, right?
Half the battle in personal and business motivation is always reminding yourself what you’re fighting for.
There are two factors most responsible for a lack of personal
motivation that affect people in all businesses. You’ve got to be honest
with yourself and consider whether you need help in these areas of your
life.
What is it that you want out of life overall? What goal in life burns
deep within you and keeps you going no matter the personal or business
challenge you’re currently working through? If you don’t know, then this
is the first thing you are encouraged to figure out.
Until you know the answer to what you want in life, you’ll struggle
with personal and business motivation. When challenges get to be too
much, you’ll end up quitting your business pursuits without a deep,
burning desire to achieve something far greater than making some money
in business.
The second factor responsible for a lack of personal motivation is a
lack of thoughtful planning and visualization. You can’t just determine
what you want out of life without developing a solid written plan of
action.
When your dreams and goals are set down on paper, they become more
real to you. The more you see your goal on physical paper, the more your
subconscious mind begins to “see” it as already accomplished.
What happens next is that your mind forces you to act in such a
manner as to make happen what it already believes to be true. As you
visualize in this manner, you will attract all the situations,
circumstances and people into your life that help you attain your goals.
Developing an indestructible sense of personal motivation comes from
knowing intensely your dreams, committing them to paper, and visualizing
them so strongly that you send out the life energy that attracts your
dreams to you.
Pay attention to the above tips and make them a part of your life as
you see your inner strength improve, along with your business pursuits.
By: Matt Zavadil
