How can i motivate myself?

Question

I have a thriving business that could earn twice as much making me very wealthy if just pulled my finger out and did some more work!
I have two wonderful kids, unfortunately i cant say the same about the missus but she's ok.
So how do you draw inspiration to become exceptional in everything you do?
I Always seem to do just the bare minimum or less. This often creates unessecary headaches etc. and yet i dont learn from my mistakes much?

So what can I do to get myself Motivated, organised and productive. After all i dont think i will win the lottery.

Answer 1

Motivation is to provide a person with a motive to action with positive energy and determination.

The time motivation will only ever be RIGHT NOW.

When we learn to take responsibility for every aspect of our lives, motivated success can only but follow, it is inevitable, like the force of the tides and as sure as the sun. Self motivation need merely have its humble beginnings right here, for when we truly accept that we create our realities, then we are firmly in control.

And the best part about being motivated, in control and taking responsibility for our ‘doings’ and more importantly, our ‘thinkings’, is then being able to renounce control and swim with the fishes and dream with the wind. It is often in our letting go that we truly wake up.

MOTIVATION NOW!

Putting off achieving your goals merely creates a void in your life, a sense of waiting for something to happen. This waiting can actually become the most tangible part of the dream and in this state we often never get motivated or courageous enough to dive in head-first. Start small, big things will follow:

To be self-motivated - BE FIRST!

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Be the first to smile.
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Be the first to forgive.
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Be the first to congratulate.
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Be the first to take action.
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…be the last to complain, the last to frown and the last to give up.

To be self-motivated - BE CONFIDENT!

* Take your confidence from the beauty of nature.
* Take your confidence from compassion; become skilled at listening and learn much before you teach.

To be self-Motivated – LIVE LIFE 100%

* Make mistakes and make them boldly; you get no do-overs in each life here. Mistakes can be our greatest teachers.
* Get out of your comfort-zone often. This gets empty and un-challenging. Make new discoveries, new friends, new ideas often and without fear.
* Remember that doubt and fear are only thoughts, and we have control over them at every second of every day.
* Pain, disappointment, hurt, love-lost are divine catapults into a greater awareness of who we are where we are going. From great suffering comes great accomplishment.

Answer 2

Hi a very good question and a very common side effect of people with their own business. I would say you are procrastinating, which simply the means you are doing all the wrong things well and you keep putting the right things off. I would suggest to you, and as I said this is only a suggestion, that you go deep inside yourself and find what is called the root cause, that makes you de - motivated.

The great thing is that you are realising that running the pattern you are stuck in, is not doing any favours.

Good luck

Answer 3

Ok this may not make sense but it works for me... (and before I say this, sorry if this seems like rambling. I have a tendency to do that)

The first thing you need to do is to set yourself smaller targets to begin with, because seeing just the result, which is much bigger, scares you and puts a lot of pressure on you. Also, while you are aiming for the smaller picture, subconsciously, you are already achieving more, as you get so into it once you've met your first target, you end up developing from that and doing more than what you initially wanted to aim. I used this method for my revision for GCSE's (I think to myself "only got to do this revision solidly for 2 weeks more in March (even though they wouldn't be over until June - but I applied this to me anyway, to push me on) and then did the rest of the revision without a problem and without realising I'd done more than what I'd aimed in the first place)

Sounds a bit of a strange method and it may not make sense as I'm bad at explaining things, but at least give it a go!

Good luck however you decide to do it and let me know how things get!

Answer 4

Sounds to me, the first thing you need to start improveing is your relationship with the misses. If my husband said that my children were wonderful and I was just OK, I probably wouldn't want to stay with him. Im sure that if you only think that shes OK, that you are only treating her OK. and that in return she only treats you OK, and thats not OK. Your Spouse should be at the top of your wonderful list. Maybe if you could improve that relationship alot of other things would improve in your life. Valentines day is coming up, and a Good Place to start.
Being a successful husband and father is much more rewarding than winning the lottery. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Right...let's get this straight from the start. I'm not on a woe is me trip here. Firstly, my close friend has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and secondly I lost my husbad very suddenly last year....and even I can motivate myself to get out of bed and make the most of what i have.

SO YOU, who has SO much must learn to appreciate your set up. Maybe check out your physical well being, what you're eating, exercise etc.

Your life sounds pretty cool to me... Go for it.

Answer 6

read good books like THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnage (Sp)...then read the greatest inspirational book of all..the BIBLE that says in plain English...as you believe so shall you receive.
I too started out at the bottom and worked my way up by self improvement and also I married a women with money and her family gave me a job to support their daughter in the manner she was accustomed. Nepotism..but if you can't do that study hard and work harder...surround yourself with successful people

Answer 7

you are doing o.k,you dont have to be the best at everything,its o.k to be average,dont feel guilty about not doing as well as you could,you can say no,you can stay in bed,you can get shut of your mrs and find true love never mind the kids,do what you want before old age takes over,you only have one life,

Answer 8

Set your self Goals , not on Field with your mates!

I feel in life we need to set out goals, by doing this we motivate ourselves in to action.

1. a short term goal- i.e wake up

2. Medium term goal -don't fall back to sleep

3. long term goal - actually try getting out of the bed!

Answer 9

Hypnotherapy! It worked for me, however, it motivated me with issues of less concern...apparently my brain was instructing me to address them first (?) make of it what you will!

Answer 10

If you continuously remember your failures and ur part in those failures you will get motivated by yourself...