CHAPTER 1
The Importance of Staying Motivated!
Motivation! How and why it's important to stay motivated. When we look at the word motivated what comes to the mind of the person that's actually trying to get motivated or stay motivated? Let's be realistic, what are they thinking? What's going on in that person's mind who is sitting there contemplating over when he or she is going to get charged up enough to begin working on that dream or that goal that they have thought about for so long? Let me assist you in understanding this process. Number one you are going to have to see yourself engaging that goal or that dream. Motivation comes from the desire that you truly want something badly enough to actually put some blood sweat and tears into what you are trying to accomplish. Let's take for instance this book you're reading right now. A book that took me 20 years to finish, because if I really wanted the book to have a positive outcome on people lives, it would have to be based on solid empirical evidence which would take time to gather, as it is based on a retrospective, longitudinal research case studies.
This evidence would lead me into the journey of conducting a longitudinal study which took extreme motivation for it to become a reality. Many times, I didn't feel like sitting down to type with everything else that I had going on. However, I knew I had to get started. It was late, and I had just gotten off work from standing on my feet all day. Nevertheless, I was determined not to put it off any longer. It was late in the evening about 1:50am in the morning. And I had not been to sleep at all since I had gotten home. I was tired, and my eyes were burning, but the motivation was having an audience of people to have a book signing for, and the self-gratification of being a first-time author. However, years later I wrote a spy thriller titled: Agent 008 The Untold Story and someone told me that I should put out Trapped to Succeed second to show that I had something that I had succeeded in. It hurt to hear that, but that person was right.
I needed to wait to put this book out, so as to establish credibility as one who had been successful. Thus, I was thrust into a longitudinal study that I really didn't want to be in, but for the sake of those people (mankind) I wanted to help become trapped to succeed, it was a necessary evil that the longitudinal study on myself be conducted.
I never dreamed that I would ever have a chance to write my own book or books for that matter. However, again I was motivated by the thought that there was a publishing company out there that would give me my first break. This is how you must think. You must believe that where there is a will there is a way. You must remember that if you put your mind to it, it may take some time, but that you will get there! You will arrive at your destination victorious! You must believe that there is some form of possibility in the world that will at some point present itself and that you will never give up until it does. This is how great minds think!
Do you have a great mind? If you didn't, I can tell right now that there is a high probability that you would not be reading this book on how to become trapped to succeed. The mere fact that you are reading this book means you took the time to develop yourself by investing in reading where you would learn from someone who has carved the way before you. Good job! And kudos to you!
Be honest with yourself, if you say you really want something, do you sit there and wait for it to come to you? Or do you get go after it with everything in you the way a dog goes after that T-bone steak after a hard day's work in the field, or as a professional football player whose been playing in the sun all day, and observes the last fresh cold drink of ice water sitting on the table who knocks over all his teammates to get to it first. I mean come on, let's be serious, do you really want it? or are you just saying you want it? Because if you're just saying you want it, believe me you'll know because you'll never get it! If you are not motivated, it's not going to happen for you!
Whatever it is, you must understand that motivation not only comes from other people, it come from within, which is intrinsic motivation, which is in my opinion the best kind of motivation to have, because you don't have to worry about people trying to motivate you. Yes, I'm talking about you, wake up! The people who always have to have external motivation that stems from other people giving it to them have a more difficult time being, or staying motivated. Most people have a hard time staying motivated themselves let alone trying to motivate someone else unless you are going to go to motivational speaker seminars all the time. You are the architect of your dreams! You must understand that it is you who creates the blueprint for your success. Once you understand this factor you will be well on your way to becoming trapped to succeed. It's only fair that I tell you the truth. So, get over other people motivating you and learn how to be internally motivated, and I can promise you will see a strong, positive difference in your life as it relates to your accomplishments!
It is important that you understand that you are your worst enemy or your best friend, and sometimes you have to be there to say to yourself, yes! I can do this, and get up and attack your goal, your dream, with everything in you if you want to accomplish it. Instead of sitting there waiting on friends or family to tell you that you can do it, or that if they had your talent they would be rich by now, and that you should be somewhere making it rich by now, instead of working with me. The truth is we have all had that said to us one time or another in our lifespans of development. Then we begin to say to ourselves yeah-yeah, one day I'm going to do it, and then we never do. I'm telling you the facts about how things happen on the way to being successful, so that you can see the difference of how you don't want to be, as supposed to how you really want to be.
It is important to learn what motivates you, and once you know my friend, to never let that power go. As we explore our minds and get our neurotransmitters fired up to stay motivated which will help us unlock the secrets of what causes us to excel or what motivates us to want to succeed. One must remember that different things motivate different people. Some people are motivated by the love of family or friends. Some are motivated by music, another by the encouraging words of an inspirational speaker.
Regardless of what it is that motivates you, you must get it down to a science and begin the quest of seeking deep inside yourself to discover what truly causes motivation in you, so that you can use it every day as a springboard propelling you into greater levels of success toward your ultimate goal. You must understand that success comes in degrees before the goal can be fully realized. In order to accomplish anything, you must know yourself- your likes, your dislikes, your weaknesses and your strengths. It is critical to know yourself internally and externally. Motivation is an untapped power that many people already have stored inside them which stems from things that they love.
They only need to tap into that power. What motivation does is what can be described as how vitamins affect the human body. Motivation provides you with energy only without the pill, but you still get the energy and the self-drive to accomplish the task you have at hand. As a person with innate feelings and emotions you know and understand how you feel when you get that surge of energy that causes you to become instantaneously determined to achieve something where you automatically know in your heart and mind nothing is going to stop you. Ask yourself what it is that is in me that caused me to feel this way? What gave me the self-drive, the mental, physical, desire to want to go after that goal with everything in me? Whatever it was, once you find out the source of your motivation hold on to it, and do everything you can to preserve it within you, so that you can accomplish your goals consistently!
That special, miraculous feeling from within that tells you no matter what comes or what goes, you can and will overcome and be a success in everything that you put your mind to do, because you are motivated by the number one motivator who will always be there for you- yourself! And that's something no one can take from you. The God given ability to be self-motivated, and self-driven.
The importance of staying motivated is just as important as staying healthy. Your success depends on the depth of your motivation or self-determination, just as the outcome of your life is dependent on your state of health. If one element is off balance it can destroy your goals, and/or deter you from a positive outcome in life. Therefore, with this in mind, one should put forth a great effort to increase their levels of motivation from within.
Majority of us have heard the term at one point in time or another that what a person puts into life is what they will get out. That's a strong motivating factor right there. Personally, I can get a self-high and increase my neurological dopamine levels just thinking about all the possibilities that are out there for me to accomplish. Yes, it will take work and there will be obstacles, but doesn't success and positive growth feel good? Isn't it worth it!
I remember personally hearing the words "what you put in life! is what you'll get out". When I heard this, I became like a child in a candy store, imagining all the possibilities of becoming successful at anything, and everything. The WOW Factor began to hit me big time! I thought to myself, you mean to tell me that whatever I put into life is what I will get out?! My first thought was ok; I'll just put everything in that I can, so that I can complete every goal! Overcome every obstacle, climb every mountain! Swim every valley! Just do it all! I'll just do everything that I can and dream big. I believe you know and understand what I'm talking about.
That young ambition and zeal that motivated individual's get when they first get that idea to achieve something. The thing is to keep that motivation, and not let it run out, due to the pressures life, and the normal struggles that a day can bring. It's all stressful and tiring and then you, with your ambitious self, had to go and take on a new challenge. We'll let me inform you, it's normal; all successful people go through that phase. That's the phase of being tried and tested, where if the person passes they will begin to become molded and crystallized in what they are doing where they will become as pure gold.
It is also a difficult process to find gold in gold mines, and then to make the gold look remarkable. It's also a difficult process to take a field of grapes and turn them into fine wine. It doesn't happen overnight, but when it does happen, and the evolutionary process is complete, the taste is out of sight! That's why when you finish suffering, after all the pain and sacrifice, you get to eat the breakfast of champions. That's why people come to you and say "keep up the good work or how do you do it? What motivates you? What keeps you so driven to do what you do?" Those times will be undoubtedly some of the best times of your life! Seeing your hard work turn into self-satisfying accomplishments!
The feeling of self-gratification is a beautiful thing, not to mention the big bank accounts, the CEO license plates, and other perks that you personally earned, because you were willing to go through the storm, and the fire. Although, sometimes you were tired, you still maintained motivation from within, from GOD who is the source of it all!
You went through the rough times and now look where you are, all because you kept persisting, praying, staying motivated, believing in yourself and getting on your knees to say those prayers. Now you are at the top of the mountain, which at one point, was so afar off. You are the king of your hill, because you searched for and found that link, that element that started it all, and enabled you to finish it all! You explored yourself, and discovered the skill of how to become constantly motivated from within!
CHAPTER 2
The Methods of staying Motivated
So, when we weigh the pros and the con's, learning yourself- and understanding yourself as far as what turns you on? what turns you off? what makes you cold? what makes you hot? What puts you in the heat of the moment every time you get a fresh goal, and keeps you there! The question must be asked, how does one stay motivated every time an individual gets a desire to accomplish something and the individual knows it's going to be a tough situation at hand, and the person does not want to lose that desire that created that ambition later down the line. The pros far our weigh the cons when it comes to the investment of learning yourself which can be done by journaling your most negative and positive inner feelings about life and strategically working to improve yourself where you modify your behavioral patterns. In the field of psychology, we call this Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. My suggestion to you, is that you remember that positive feeling that you had when you first became inspired by that vision of success that caused you to get all heated up, and that made you feel all warm and fussy on the inside, just the way that 1st date you had with that beautiful woman or that handsome hunk! This is another tactic of staying motivated! Remembering what it was that started the romance in the first place. Let's think about it for a minute. Why do you continue a love affair with anything or anybody? What's in it for you? What are you getting out of it?
These are some of the things you need to tell yourself to keep yourself motivated. You should try picturing visually the outcome of whatever it is you have set out to accomplish, so that it teases you into working toward reaching and obtaining whatever it is you are hoping for. Fact! If you keep seeing it! You'll want it more and more, and you'll get the motivation from within to get it. This is what makes you resilient. Never stopping, although you may encounter difficulties that attempt to deter you from reaching your goals. If it takes you getting into or delving into a spiritual plain with the creator to keep yourself motivated, a little prayer every now and then won't hurt. God is the big boss anyway! Some psychologists utilize faith-based practices in the process of therapy to assist clients in achieving their goals for better lives. If you have to pray, fast, meditate, workout or start eating healthier- do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals, dreams or desires, just get it done!
Hopefully, you'll utilize positive methods, but sometimes even when you remain positive, you will still have to be relentless in your pursuit in a positive way, and nothing's wrong with that! Being motivated and staying motivated is a gift in itself, people who are optimistic even respond to people who are positively motivated. When people observe that you are motivated they cling to you like magnets, and for good reason.
In my strong opinion, and one that is based on empirical evidence, meaning I have repeatedly observed this phenomena in various situations and settings; being positive, optimistic and motivational is like being a celebrity- people want to follow you, and celebrate you! It's almost as if you are a celebrity, because almost everyone wants to be a part of that positive energy that you are broadcasting from your inner person. It's just something about that man or woman who possesses the power of being able to uplift and strengthen another human being, their fellow man, who may be down, and almost out where they have the ability to lift them up! (Which type are you?).
Some might agree that there is nothing better than that natural of having self-motivation, also known as intrinsic motivation, because right then, at that very moment when you start thinking on your goal rather long term or short term, you can feel it! Taste it! And almost even touch it! Right now, some of you are probably saying "where is he taking me?", and I can tell you — I am taking you to a point in time where if you can constantly capture the essence of being self-motivated, and stay in the mind frame of being motivated, then you'll enter into a dimension where there is an unlimited access to success! A dimension where there are no boundaries to achievement, a place in time and space where the power of motivation is unstoppable, and you are chief explorer. This is God's will through his Son! This is His gift to you! It is to see you live a life of great abundance and joy! (KJV: John 10:10).
