Tips to Keep You Motivated
Helpful tips that will keep you focused and on track enabling you to achieve all your dreams and goals.
For anyone working toward making their dreams and goals come true, it is crucially important to find, create and utilize self-motivating tools that will ensure your success. Without them, the arduous journey can oftentimes become more difficult than necessary or even feel close to impossible to achieve. Some helpful tips follow:
Write Your Goals Down
According to some of the most successful people in this world, writing down one’s goals and dreams increases the likelihood of success sometimes tenfold. Fact: Before Jim Carrey became famous, he wrote a check out to himself for $1,000,000. Now he can cash that check multiple times. Are you writing your check right now?
Create a Structured Plan
Giving yourself a schedule and a deadline date also increases your success rate infinitely. Sticking to this plan is crucial. Just because you know that you are intelligent, does not mean that you will be successful. Being successful still takes perseverance, hard work, and conviction among many other things. Even the most talented basketball player must still hit the courts and practice daily. He’s competing against the best. So are you. Keep your skills sharpened.
Take Care of Your Health
Without your health, you cannot function at your best. And, when you are trying to achieve the best, you need to feel your best. Make sure to exercise, eat healthy and get check ups regularly. It makes no sense to create a successful business that you will not be around for. Your health, like any successful business takes care and well thought out strategy. Take the time, take the care. You are worth the effort.
Read Inspirational Stories and Quotes
This is a great way to keep motivated! They don’t call these books “Chicken Soup for the Soul” for no reason! Inspiring stories about overcoming tough challenging moments, winning in the end, people who are successful and people who want to give great advice through quotes; these are all great motivators and will help you continue steadily forward on your path to achieving your dreams.
Believe in Yourself
You need to be your number one support system. Yes, it is important to surround yourself with people who support you, a healthy lifestyle, etc. But, in the end, you are with you the rest of your life. You need to be able to trust your intuition and believe in all the decisions you make. Success is not always measured in a dollar amount, a car, or a title. Success is what brings you true happiness, peace, serenity and love. Keep this in mind and always remain true to yourself. When you do this, you are already a success.
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louie jerome
On June 13, 2008 at 5:41 am
Interesting and useful article.
Anthony M. McDonald
On June 13, 2008 at 7:20 am
I think I speak on behalf of all of us Triond writers when I say that we are most grateful for your motivational and informative articles.. Keep up the good work!!!
IcyCucky
On June 13, 2008 at 7:58 am
Very inspiring, Liane, and great advices as always..
salvatore
On June 13, 2008 at 8:24 am
very interesting, inspiring and useful tips.
Well done
Liane
keep it up
nobert soloria bermosa
On June 13, 2008 at 8:57 am
all equally important tips,nice article Liane,thanks
Rookie Expert
On June 13, 2008 at 9:06 am
Very motivating article. Chicken soup for the soul is one book i think everyone should read.
TP Sage
On June 13, 2008 at 10:27 am
Excellent as usual. Writers are basically out on an island with no convenient and readily available sources for maintaining motivation, confidence and desire. Your tips should be a “basic” function of the writer’s routine. Since most of my friends are writers….(heck….most of my READERS are writers….)I’m going to pass your article along to as many of them as I can.
Thanks Liane
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Anne Lyken-Garner
On June 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Good tips here Liane, it is also important that we take action on the things we read about motivation. I know quite a few people who surround themselves with books about motivation, but haven’t followed up with the knowledge they acquire.
It doesn’t help if we just sit on the advise.
mohd14987
On June 13, 2008 at 11:06 pm
very nice tips
william rodriguez II
On June 14, 2008 at 1:54 am
Inspiring article.
diane mccloskey
On June 14, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Absolutely right! Writing may be our passion, but it is also “hard work” sometimes and we, as any artists, need some helpful hints. Thanks!
Lucy Lockett
On June 15, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Tips that you cannot get by without! I like to come by your articles especially when I’m losing my get up and go! Its like a top up, thanks Liane!
MindIt
On June 16, 2008 at 4:16 am
Great tips! I would like to add two things. One, it’s important to take some time off everyday to mediate or calm your mind. Lot of doing and little reflection will make it hard to remain motivated. Two, you must enjoy the journey. Don’t plan your goals alone. Also plan how you will enjoy yourself after reaching each milestone. Create a very positive image of the aftermath in your mind.
MindIt
On June 16, 2008 at 4:16 am
Great tips! I would like to add two things. One, it’s important to take some time off everyday to meditate or calm your mind. Lot of doing and little reflection will make it hard to remain motivated. Two, you must enjoy the journey. Don’t plan your goals alone. Also plan how you will enjoy yourself after reaching each milestone. Create a very positive image of the aftermath in your mind.
Catherine South
On July 3, 2008 at 10:41 am
Hmmm… Does the taking care of my health part mean I shouldn’t be aeting crisps while I work? Valuable carbohydrates those…
donnaalene3
On August 15, 2008 at 1:39 pm
very interesting and informative thankyou
Will Gray
On September 2, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Great tips. I am motivated by just about everthing I hear, read or by people I talk to. Thanks for helping me learn a few things I did not know.
ebazaar
On September 10, 2008 at 10:22 am
I couldn’t thank you more for sharing this since it gives me a second thoughts on how I really should do things in my life. sometimes it’s hard to stay focus, not because i got strayed but because all the things i got to do in a day really tires me easily. But keeping a due date and be positive are really important i guess. I should just keep all the sighs at bay and starts moving these two hands.
Chris Stonecipher
On October 8, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Liane,
I read this at a perfect time. Too much to do and little time. I need to set deadlines and priorities. My son and I recently started going to the gym together. Thank you for all the tips.
Chris
nutuba
On December 23, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Liane, these are great reminders. I appreciate the leadership role you have on Triond … you are leading by example. Thanks!
Joni Keith
On January 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm
You make such excellent points. You are truly one of the masters and I value your insight.
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