Motivation is a guide that encourages an individual to take action to complete and achieve a specific goal in his life. Origination of this guide or drive occurs in us when we have a desire to get succeed. Motivation is a powerful force that can change your life. It has the ability to persuade, satisfy and push you to take action to achieve something valuable in your life.
We should have to realize that a life without an aim is completely a waste. The base foundation of a building that holds the entire building, if base foundation is not strong enough to hold the building, there is no doubt that the whole building will collapse. In the same way, motivation is a basic drive and desire for any person in the world to achieve a meaningful goal in life. Therefore, our motivation should be that much energetic. Patience, persistence and perspiration are the three essential key elements that can strengthen your motivation. You face a lot of obstacles when you take your eyes off your goal. The more you overcome your obstacles, more you become strong. Many of us underestimate the relevance of our own abilities and skills, is the greatest enemy of motivation. This leads to lack of effort and people don’t achieve meaningful in their life because they cannot identify what is required in their lives. When you have a strong motivation, you can see that your presumption towards life changes in a positive manner.
Here are some famous Inspirational people’s stories that can create a motivational environment for you.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln who failed in business at the age of 21, was defeated in a legislative race at age 22, failed again in business at age 24, had his sweetheart die when he was age 26, had a nervous breakdown at age 27, lost a congressional race at age 34, lost a senatorial race at age 45, failed in an effort to become vice president at age 47, lost a senatorial race at age 49, and was elected president of the United States at age 52.
Thomas Edison
School teacher considered him as a stupid to learn anything. But his mother, a former school teacher, didn’t give up her belief on her son, taught him at home. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling. In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start a new”. In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader in South Africa. He fought against apartheid, a system where non-white citizens were segregated from whites and did not have equal rights. He was arrested in 1982 and spends almost twenty years in prison for his protests but became a symbol for his people, he won a Noble Peace Prize in 1993. He became South Africa’s first black President in 1994.
How to Get Motivated?
1. Set a Goal
Setting and meetings goal in your life make your life more enjoy full, meaningful, and feeling of fulfillment. Goals can be divided into two, short-term goals and long-term goals. It doesn’t take much effort and time to achieve short-term goals. Long-term goals are like a long journey to a destination. You have to commit a lot of energy and time for an accomplishment. Achievement of long-term goals can make you realize that you are stronger and capable to accomplish any sort of goals efficiently. Setting a goal is like a preparation of a plan, in order to make that goal into reality you should have to take efforts and actions.
2. Avoid Procrastination
Procrastination is a common bad habit facing by many people all around the world. Surely, you get disturbed if you have to drag important works over and over again. When we procrastinate sometimes that won’t affect us adversely, but if we procrastinate chronically that will affect our potential performance in our career. Overcoming procrastination is not a difficult task, it is possible by following certain simple techniques such as avoiding multi-task, creating a list of work to do, Take a break and encourage yourself.
3. Enlarge Your Vision
We should push our limits in our life. Life is a long journey, we must enlarge our vision and take actions to make our dream come true. We cannot attain success only with large vision but also we should take actions to make that vision realistic. There are a lot of opportunities around us. By selecting the suitable opportunities at the correct time will help you to attain success easily.
4. Attract The Good Around You
When you change the way you look at the world, the world you look at change. When you accept only good things around you and rejecting negative things, you will find a world that wants you to be successful. This enables you to get the love of others easily. We all have the power of knowledge, using that knowledge to good use is one of the effective methods to attract abundance around you.
5. Avoid Being Perfectionist
Aim for accomplishments rather than perfection. It’s a good thing to have high standards and performance, when perfection becomes endless of making mistakes then it becomes a problem. It makes people unhappy since it’s impossible for them to achieve perfection. Moving towards the unattainable makes it difficult to get started. Perfectionism is able to keep us in a state of high anxiety. But you can identify your perfectionist tendencies and take realistic actions. Try to do your best when you striving towards a goal. Accept the mistakes and failure which are the part of achieving goals. Before start working for your goal, ask yourself whether your goal is reasonable. If not, divide your goal into a manageable one. Give yourself credit for what you have accomplished. Success is a journey, not a destination.
