There is no problem with you saying ‘I need motivation’ as that is just natural to do. Problems only come when all you could do is mere wish without proportionate action to back up your wish. One fact is that we all need motivation and another fact is that it is not all of us that know how to find motivation. Finding motivation is an art that every individual must learn in order to be successful in life. Subsequent paragraphs of this article will be giving additional tips on how to find motivation.

HOW TO FIND MOTIVATION

• Reading quality books: reading can be a source of motivation when directed well. Yes, when directed well. You don’t read negative books and expect to find motivation from them. Inspiring and spirit lifting books are what you should read in order to get motivated into action. I remember what happened to me after reading a page from ZIG ZIGLAR’S bestselling book: OVER THE TOP on the day I lost one of most treasured belongings. I felt as though the world has ended but was quickly revived after reading that page of OVER THE TOP.

• Seeing the end from the beginning: I am not by any means saying that you should turn into a witch or wizard so that you can see the end from the beginning. All I am saying is that the mere act of anticipating the end from the beginning of a venture can help spur you into action. This technique works well when they are based on you anticipating positive outcomes. You sure don’t need a prophet to tell you that you will further lose motivation if you imagine evil and negative things. 
• Finding your purpose: finding the reason behind what we do and what we stand for is a powerful way of motivating ourselves into doing things that are beyond our widest imagination.
• Seeking help and counseling:  we all need help in times of trouble and tribulation. No man is an island on its’ own. Do not hesitate to seek help when the need arise, care should be taken so as not to get advice from quark source.
• Working on the basis of love: imagine seeing your loved one asking you to help save his or her life. Will you tell him or her that you are weak and tired of helping when you know that not rendering a helping hand will result into untimely death of the individual in question.
• Helping others: you will be surprised at the amount of energy that will come into you if you genuinely desire to help people. The joy that comes from being called a helper will ignite your moving force that will in turn, power on the light of motivation that has probably been lying idle in you for some time. Think of it this way; what is it that motivates you to help an opposite sex in need? Don’t tell me the answer is not; so that she/ he can see me as a nice person that is ever ready to help. Apart from the joy that comes from helping others, the material rewards that sometimes accrue to helpers also acts as motivating factor.

Notice however that motivation is not a precision and definite science that is exact in nature. It takes a little tweaking of circumstances to truly find answer to your quest for motivation. And avoid these five reasons for losing motivation.

A lot of efforts have been misdirected in the wrong direction all in the name of finding lost motivation. Motivation would be like a mirage when one is not equipped with the right skill of finding it. The good news is that steps needed to be taken to find lost motivation is not a rocket science. And even if it is, it is still human beings that learn rocket science.

In this article are some simple non-technical steps that can be taken to find our lost motivation. Enjoy!

EASING OUT TENSION

Though, some people will argue that fear is a motivating factor; I have no problem with that as some fear can actually act as a motivating factor. What I have problem with is when your allow tension to creep in and chase out the inherent motivation in we all. Easing out tension and comporting yourself is one easy way of finding your lost motivation.

TELLING YOURSELF THE TRUTH

There is no greater harm you can do to your self as an individual as not telling yourself the truth. You can never know your true worth if you don’t tell yourself the truth and this will lead you into believing you can do things you actually can not do; and failure will be the result and this will make you lose motivation. So another good way of finding motivation is to keep ‘positive thinking’ within check. Positive thinking should be aligned with reality. You will end up getting yourself hurt and de-motivated if you venture into fields that you are not ready for.

FINDING OUT THE ‘WHY’ HIDDEN WITHIN THE ‘HOW’

You will find your lost motivation if can simply try to find out the reason behind what you are doing. Passionately asking yourself: why am I doing this? will help ignite your will-power to face the challenges of life squarely. As soon as answer to the why is provided, the motivation for the ‘how’ will be recovered.

THANKSGIVING AND POSITIVE STOCK TAKING

Developing a thankful heart will help release the dormant energy within you. A thankful heart will give you motivation to take stock of the numerous good things that life has treated you with in the past.

VISUALIZING THINGS WITH YOUR MIND’S EYE

The power behind vision cannot be undermined. You may or may not believe things that you hear, but, you must believe things that you see. So, visualizing the benefits of achieving your task will burst you into motivation that may have been lost.

Finding your lost motivation is not something that you can do once and expect to get a lifetime result, you need to be actively involved in this process of finding your lost motivation. You can also find your lost motivation by knowing the causes of loss of motivation.

A lot of people want to be the second ‘him’ or ‘her’ thereby putting unnecessary pressure on themselves to leave up to the standard they ignorantly set for themselves. Yes, conflict can erupt within you when you try to copy or imitate another in their way of living. Why imitating another person when you have been made in a unique way. Do you know that simple realization of yourself can be enough motivating factor to everything that you do? Motivation cannot live in the same house with conflict. It is as impossible as having light and darkness coexist as it is to have motivation and conflict with ones real self to coexist. One must give way for the other to prevail, start being you real you today and say goodbye to loss of motivation.

SETTING TOO HIGH OR TOO LITTLE A STANDARD FOR YOUR SELF

Standard is like flower; water it too much, it will die, water it too little and still watch it die. A balance must be sought between both ends of spectrum as far as standard setting is concerned. Too much or too little standard will surely make one to loss motivation. What will you be excited over when you didn’t put in much effort to hit your standard in a given endeavour? Or what will motivate you if you know from the word go that you cannot achieve the target you set for yourself? Try setting attainable standards and see your motivation and vibration level soar to the sky.

COMPARING YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE AROUND YOU

Comparing your self with people around you will do you more harm than good as far as motivation is concerned. Talents bestowed on me are not the same as that that is bestowed on you. Hence, you will find it difficult or impossible to get the exact result that I get from things that I do. And when you try to do things that you have no business in, failure will surely strike and when this happens, losses of motivation have no choice than to set in. a lot people condemn themselves because they cannot attain the same of success as their friends. No, you don’t have to condemn yourself! And besides, what your friends call success might not be what you call success as success is a relative term.

NOT BEING GRATEFUL

Being gratitude has a way of increasing our energy level and makes us perform above default standard. Show me an ingrate and I will show you someone who has lost all form of motivation. Nature has a way of rewarding those that appreciates her gifts. Avoid being negative if you really want to live a life that is full of motivation.

LACKING SENSE OF HUMOUR

Without humour, life sucks. We need to sometimes laugh over certain things in life if we want to be motivated almost all the time of our life. Lack of humour will make one not to see any motivating factor in any given situation. There is an element of humour in what ever situation we find ourselves. Laugh at your mistakes sometimes and turn them into a source of motivation to even power more.

Have it at the back of your mind that; loss of motivation can be caused by so many factors and that the five reasons for loss of motivation discussed in this article are not all encompassing in their own right. But, they sure are useful in finding your lost motivation

Say no to loss of motivation!!

 I remember the ugly expression on my friends’ face one afternoon when I told him I cannot motivate him (Am sure that is the kind of expression on your face when you first saw the title of this post). He told me a story of his problem with procrastination and demanded that I motivate him. I know someone will be saying at this point “but we all need someone to lean on”. Yes, I agree with you but, wait a minute before you go on.

Have you heard of the saying that you can only force the horse to the stream but cannot force the horse to drink? The horse only drinks when he feels like drinking (i.e. when thirsty). So it is with human persons and motivation. I can tell you all the inspiring and motivating stories in this world but will end up wasting your time and mine if you are not yet hungry for motivation.

 You know how you actively search for food when you are hungry and the speed at which you descend on the food when you eventually find it. Now tell me will you be satisfied if you get to where the food is and still did not action on the food? You know the obvious answer, you have to take action (eat the food) before you get satisfaction. Being hungry for motivation is one thing and doing the things that will get you motivated is another thing altogether.

 You can read the whole books on personal development and listen to the best motivating audio books and still remain where you are if that inertia in you is not killed. Yes, kill that inertia by putting into practice all what you know. Can you now see reason with me why I said I cannot motivate you? You are the only person that can motivate yourself into action. All every other person, including me can do is to help you find reason(s) to be happy and motivated. The rest lies in your hands. Just like the philosophers will say- your destiny lies in your own hands. It becomes whatever you choose to let it be. Get motivated, stay motivated and always take action that will make you explode with motivation. To your motivated life!

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Due to the importance of these three terms, a lot of mistakes, misconception and misunderstandings have prevailed to the extent that many lives that would have otherwise be productive have been condemned to mediocrity.

This article is not a typical ‘how-to’ stuff but, is written with the intention to point out some common mistakes that people make about productivity, efficiency and effectiveness so that you and your loved ones will not go on making same mistakes over and over again.

Below are the ten common deadly mistakes that you need to avoid so as to remain; productive, efficient and effective.

• Using the wrong tools at the write time and vice-versa. You surely cannot expect miracle to happen when you make use of the wrong tools. Or can you browse the internet without the use of some right kind of device?

• Going for cheap and inferior goods (products and services). Anybody who has knowledge of accounting will tell you that quality saves money and time. By simply investing in the right kind of product may be all that you need to achieve your target as far as productivity, efficiency and effectiveness are concerned.

• Worrying too much. Valuable times are always wasted through worry. Stop worrying unnecessary today and see yourself living a fulfilled and enhanced life.

• Too much or too little planning. As important as planning is, its extremes has to be avoided.

• Falling victim to analysis paralysis. Analysis and planning have things in common. Do not waste too much time analyzing and yet invest enough time into your analysis. This is one area where people that are too educated get it all wrong.

• Not giving before expecting. This is a natural law that cannot be avoided. For you to be; productive, efficient and effective, you need to give out some resources in place of them. It could be your money, time, etc.

• Losing concentration. Avoid loosing concentration. A student who lost concentration in the examination hall cannot expect to come out in flying colours no matter how intellectually sound he or she may be. Same goes to all that we do in life.

• Living in the false region of life. Avoid copying other people. Be the best at whom you are and at what you do. There is no way you can avoid living in the false region of life if all you do is copy other peoples’ way of life.

• Dwelling in the wrong association. Evil association they say corrupt good manners. The simple act of mingling with un-productive people will have an adverse effect on you and your quest to be who you want to be.

• Not reading good and quality books. Often time, you are what you read. Read good books that will help enhance your value. You can asses some quality books by visiting this link.

Is as simple as this, avoiding these ten pit fall will definitely make you a better you.

To your new found productive, efficient and effective life!

If you are among those that want to see everything in place before you take action; then listen to this bad news I have for you- that time will never come- what this means is that you are destined to live an unfulfilled life. Did I hear you say God forbid? Then why are you waiting for the perfect time?

You don’t have to sit down at home wishing and hoping that the traffic goes away before you set out for your journey, or do you?

I remember what a respectable member of my extended family said to my father when he was about sending me to the University. He said to my father “why don’t you wait until you save up enough money before sending your Son to school or do you want him to die of starvation?” It is obvious he said it with good intentions but, is that the right thing to do? Am sure NO is also your answer. But the fact is that many people dwell in zone, too bad.

Than God my father did not listen to him, for if he had done; only God knows what would have happened. May be I could still be successful but definitely not in the path am following now.

A lot of talents that would have helped this wonderful world of ours have been given to the already enriched graveyard and commentary for free because, many people wait for the perfect time that will never come. My dear highly valued friend, the only gift I can give to you in this New Year is to encourage you to start something. It doesn’t matter how small it is. It must not be perfect, just start it where you are.

There is this MTN Nigeria’s run-off line in one of there adverts that I enjoy so much- “go start something”. In that advert, two little girls started ‘play clapping’ and were joined by a large network of people within a twinkle of an eye. They didn’t wait to be in a perfect place where the whole world will see them before they started that play that eventually became a large network.

Do you intend to start up a business of your own, a new dieting program or whatever it is? Just start it and see yourself grow with it.

Get motivated and stay motivated so that you can start something where you are today. To your Success!

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Self-Centered Self-centered is defined as being egotistically concerned with self. So a self-centered person is one that is not concerned with another person’s feelings, ideas, points of view, etc, (even though narcissism is closely related to self centeredness, we won’t go so far as to put our characters in that category). I guess you can say a self-centered person has “I” problems. Let’s put this statement under a microscope in the next few situations

You don’t have to worry yourself over that rather, you should be happy and thankful to God for making you what you are that makes people to get attracted at your success.

My father always tell me that “a barren tree does not attract stones”. What this means is that SUCCESSFUL people are bound to have enemies. If you are not been envied by some people, it then means you are WORTHLESS and should do something about it fast.

Tell me, have you ever seen any reasonable person envying a mad man? The simple answer is no.

Rather than spend your valuable time worrying over the series of attacks you get, spend that time solidifying your defense. One simple and sure way of solidifying your defense is to always look up to God.

Trust in Him with all your heart and always give Him thanks and praise. The singular act of giving God thanks and praise is enough reason for Him to bless you beyond your imagination.

Very many people have not yet discovered the secret behind thanksgiving – to these set of people, I say; try it and see for yourself what you have been missing.

Next time that the feeling of worrisome tries coming in, just remind yourself that your big worth is the cause of the seeming challenging attacks that come your wayand give thanks to God for His abundant blessings.

Get motivated, stay motivated and find cause to glorify the name of The Lord and watch Him embarrass you the more. To your worthy life!

I call it ‘SAY’ method. All you need to do is say NO to series of things and say YES to series of things. Finish!

Are you ready? Ok, here we go:

SAY NO TO…….

FAILURE, HATRED, PROCRASTINATION, STRESS, ADDICTION, MISERY, WICKEDNESS, WAR, UNFAITHFULNESS, INGRATITUDE, ABUSES, KILLING, INDECISION, LAZINESS, ANGER, ALCOHOLISM, UN-FORGIVENESS, BACKWARDNESS, CONFUSION, NEGATIVE JEALOUSLY, LACK, ETC

You can add the ones you want to add. And

SAY YES TO…….

VICTORY, FREEDOM, ABUNDANCE, GOOD HEALTH, GOOD RELATIONSHIP, SUCCESS, PEACE, FAITHFULNESS, THANKSGIVING, LOVE, HOLINESS, ARMS GIVING, LEARNING, COURAGE, MOTIVATION, INSPIRATION, HAPPINESS, FORGIVENESS, HUMILITY, INNOVATION, CLARITY OF PURPOSE, APPRECIATION, UNDERSTANDING, WISDOM, WEALTH, ETC

You can also add the ones you want to add at this point.

If you can recite all the above words – especially the positive ones on a daily basis or regular interval fine, but, if you cannot, just select the ones that apply more to your situation and do it at least once a week and see your situation change for good.

What this will do for you is to awaken the ‘inner monitor’ in you that will always remind you not to do those things you said No to and to always do those things you said YES to.

Do this faithfully and come back here to testify before this year runs out.

To the success of your New Year pledge! HAPPY NEW YEAR!