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Personal Motivation

List Your Goals By Importance

Motivational Tip #5: List your goals in a hierarchy, from most important to least important. At the end of your motivational goal-structuring session, list your goals in a hierarchy. What I mean by that is, list them in terms of which goals are most important to you and which goals are least important to you. [...]

Think About Your True Aspirations

Motivational Tip #4: Allow yourself to think about your true aspirations. Sometimes, particularly curing challenging economic circumstances, we can get lost in thinking only about what we “should” do or what we “need” to do. I’ve been stuck in that kind of thinking pattern in my life more than once. Two nights ago on a [...]

Describe Your Desired End Result

Motivational Tip #3: Describe your “desired end result,” rather than a “process” or “action” for creating that result. This is an important point of motivational wisdom that many people misunderstand. It’s a natural impulse to jump right into an action for creating a result before we’re even clear on what that result is. In doing [...]

Clarify Your Goal

Motivational Tip #2……in determining the result you want to create, clarify your goal. Define your goal to yourself as something specific you truly desire to create or experience. Clarity is very powerful and very motivating. A good rule of thumb is to make your desired result clear enough and specific enough so you can easily [...]

Shift to Creative Orientation

Motivational Tip #1: Shift to a “Creative Orientation” in Defining Your Goals. It’s so important to know how to define our goals for ourselves in a way that naturally motivates us. When we understand how to most effectively define our goals, we start a chain reaction within ourselves that generates the energy and the follow-through [...]