Author: Megan Jones

Meg enjoys fitness and learning and has been interested in motivation all her life

Why Motivation?

Always in Trouble!

I have been interested in motivation all of my life, right from the time I was in primary (elementary) school. Why? Because I was always in trouble for not getting my work done,  or for daydreaming and not listening or for not being able to do the lesson because I had not been listening. I also felt guilty for procrastinating about chores or homework. I kept getting reminded to get things done but never got started on them. Probably the “reminding” was what kept me from getting started because the reminder usually came about the time I was going to start anyway and that rebellious streak hated to be told what to do.

I Preferred To …

… read a book
… play outside
… watch TV
even though my pleasure in those was spoiled because I knew the work would still need to be done later.

Over The Years ….

I have learned:

(1) Most jobs took much less time to do than I imagined and I spent more time moaning and feeling guilty than it would have taken to just do it. Nowadays, I tell myself to stop whining and just do it.

(2) You don’t actually have to “feel” motivated to do the job, you can do it without feeling motivated. That includes getting the dishes done, vacuuming the floor and leaving out the trash. I am never motivated to do them but I bribe myself using motivation charts. I get a tick for each job completed and the ticks add up to a small cash payout. I feel very happy when I have “earned” a big amount in my rewards jar.

Three Ways In Which Meditation Can Improve Your Performance

Is Your Life becoming More Frantic?

The world seems to be more competitive with every sun that sets. It has become harder to succeed financially and in other spheres of life without putting in more and more effort in whatever you do. But there is a limit! Everyone will break down at some point if there is too much pressure and many people are looking to techniques like meditation that help relieve stress and improve focus, so that they can notch up their performance. Below are three ways in which meditation can help you achieve a better quality of life while improving your performance at work.

Focus

The basic fundamentals of meditation entail achieving a state of self-awareness and peace of mind. You are taught by starting not to think of anything but just concentrate on the rhythm of your breath. Consequently, you will learn how to focus all your energies on a task at hand. Some gurus even assert that it is possible to meditate while working and there are such meditations as a walking meditation. If you can focus your thought to a single task at a time, you will achieve better results, complete tasks in less time and live a happier life noting that it is unlikely to be stricken by stress when your mind is focused on a task.

Increase your creativity

It appears that people who meditate are more creative than those who are yet to discover this free recipe for success. If you take some time alone and allow your being to achieve a state of relaxation, the mind will automatically begin working more efficiently. The right side of the brain which is responsible for generating new ideas will especially benefit more from meditation. Whether you are sports person, an innovative genius or an entrepreneur, you can be sure of being awed by how far your capabilities extend when you begin meditating.

Rejuvenate your energies

Meditation is an effective technique which has been used for many years by people who needed to rejuvenate their energies. Some people’s performances deteriorate because they have depleted their energies and now experience low motivation after having remained devoted to their work for so long. Before you begin conditioning your mind to believe that the only way through which you can escape your exhaustion is by taking a vacation, start dedicating some of your free time to meditation and see how relieved you will feel after every session.

Not As Easy As It May Sound

Lastly, note that meditation is not as easy it sounds. Most people will need guidance before they can start meditating on their own.

Five Ways To Improve Your Focus

Listen to Music

One way of improving your focus is by constantly listening to music. This means really listening and getting to learn and understand the words in the music. This helps to clear your mind by making you focus on only one thing and so helps calm your mind and freshen it by removing those blocks that limit your concentration and focus.

Meditation

Meditation helps with improving focus and concentration. Some people spend at least one hour a day meditating but starting out with even 10 or 15 minutes can be very beneficial. One way of improving your meditation is through focusing on your breathing. By focusing on the air you breath, the way it touches your nostrils and how it enters your throat and leaves helps in calming your system. This can provide a sense of peace and contentment and helps in improving your focus.

Set Small Achievable Realistic Goals

Setting huge, unrealistic goals can be very frustrating and can mean losing focus. One way of improving focus is to set goals which are smart (simple, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound). This helps in reducing pressure and a lot of the frustrations that build when goals seem to be forever out of reach. Stress and pressure can make you lose concentration. It is better to set goals which can be achieved in maybe a week or a month and which will ultimately lead to your long term goals.

Exercise

Studies have shown that regular exercise can calm the  mind and improve focus. Exercises such as swimming, going to the gym dancing, gardening, etc help you lay off mental burdens and pressures. Exercise also relaxes the mind and improves concentration and focus. Also one can improve focus by frequently exercising the mind by for example filling crossword puzzles, engaging in social quizzes or puzzling out sudoku games etc this helps in making sure your mind is not idle.

Wear light clothes when you can

Wearing light and loose clothes also helps improve your focus. This is because there is sufficient ventilation in your body and free air can easily flow in and out. This helps in keeping your mind fresh and constantly in focus.

Powerful Secrets For Becoming More Positive


Pessimists and Negative Thinking

Are you are negative thinker? Do you always feel the worst is going to happen? Do you always think the worst of every situation and that if something goes wrong it is always your fault?

Constant negative thinking can lead to depression and anxiety. It can also lead to sleeplessness if you constantly replay negative scenarios over in your head.

We all have positive and negative thoughts and being a pessimist can have some benefits, because that negative side of you can work out possible problems in any project with which you are involved and take steps to overcome them. Being a constant ray of sunshine can also be irritating to some others. But constant negativity is extremely draining and tiring, as you will always consider yourself a failure, no matter how well you do.

Both positive and negative thoughts can be creative and lead to progress and improvements, and our experiences and environment result from our predominant thoughts.

“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” (Anais Nin)

That is, if you see everything through negative glasses, then the world will always seem harsh and cruel to you, whereas if you view it through positive glasses, then it will appear fair and welcoming.

Learning Experience

Negative occurrences can be used as learning experiences. What happens to you is not always someone else’s fault (though of course it can be) so learn to take responsibility for your own thoughts and actions and stop blaming other people for what you are going through. The following tips will help you to be more positive.

Avoid Negative Influences

Much like dieters need to stay out of the kitchen, you should stay away from anybody who is likely to influence you negatively. Be it a close friend or a family member, stay away from them. Take your time and choose your friends wisely because they will have a serious impact on your behavior. Sometimes, a particular person can be so toxic to your well-being that you have to seriously consider whether you should cut them out of your life entirely. This can be an extremely difficult decision but may be necessary in some cases for your own health. Furthermore, do what you are comfortable with. If you feel bad, concerned or guilty because of doing something, you better not do it.

Replace negative thoughts with positive ones

Try to view every situation from a brighter side. If you do this long enough, it will become your habit and this will eventually improve your positive thinking. Everything can be framed positively. Instead of saying a half glass of water is half empty, view it as half full. Even when you fail to achieve what you wanted, at least you have gained certain experiences that will make you better. Every situation has both negative and positive aspects. So, it is up to you to choose where to focus your thoughts.

Smile

A positive attitude goes hand in hand with happiness. Even when things are not going as planned, at least smile to lift your mood. Do not worry so much til you cannot afford a simple smile. Share your positive experience with others and this will boost your moods. Making yourself smile can actually help to improve your mood, in some way, the effect of moving those facial muscles into a smile boosts your emotional mood to become more positive.

Surround yourself with positive activities

Your daily activities also determine how positive you can be. All activities you get involved in each day should occupy your day in a very positive way. For instance, your entertainment should be positive. Do only those things you love doing. If it is watching movies, listening to music or engaging in sports activities, do it with passion, and this will boost positive thinking.

Admit that there are problems.

You will be surprised that some people do not even identify and admit that there are problems affecting them, in fact, they will often deny there is a problem and stay firmly tucked in their comfort zone. By identifying your problem, you will find possible solutions and this will help you become positive.

Ask for feedback.

Try to know what you are by asking your close friends or family members. You can as well involve experts to assess your behavior and give you feedback. Feedback will give you various perspectives from which you can decide on an appropriate course of action.

3 Perseverance Tips

Persevere!

If you want to persevere, you do not have to do much. All you need to do is keep on going until you make it to the very end. Of course, there will be obstacles that may prevent you from meeting your goals and relishing the journey, but you can overcome them and keep moving on by following the tips below.

1. Solidify Your Resolve

You should start by figuring out a specific goal. Once you have determined your specific goal, you should formulate a plan with steps that you will need to take in a certain amount of time in order to reach your desired goal. You will have to develop mental strength, and put in effort and time if you want to reach your goal.

If you are suffering from self-doubt and do not feel self-confident, you will need to change that. You need to believe that you can persevere if you really want to make progress. Even if your goals may seem unobtainable, you need to believe that you can overcome life’s hurdles.

Small yet stressful incidents are a part of life, so you should not waste your energy by getting hung up on them. If you want to persevere, you will need to let go of such petty things.

2. Deal With Life’s Challenges

Life is full of challenges and obstacles, you need to stare them in the face and figure out a way to get through them or overcome them. Make sure you stick to the path that will lead you towards your goal, rather than making excuses or placing blame. There are many ways in which you can temporarily elude a problem, but it is never a permanent solution and should be avoided.

You should use your conscience to guide you when making decisions and even then, you should make decisions carefully and reasonably, after you have weighed your options. Examining an issue that you have encountered from every angle will help you in taking the right action to handle it.

On your way to reaching your goals, you will definitely make mistakes. Instead of feeling discouraged, you should gain wisdom from your mistakes and learn from them. Failures are a part of the process and failing simply means that you need to correct and improve your plan to reach your goal successfully.

3. Stay Strong

A clouded mind and an unhealthy body can prove to be the biggest hurdle on your path to reaching your goal. Being physically healthy is also an important part of achieving perseverance. More than often, you will find it harder to get closer to your goal on your own, which is only natural, and means that you need connect with people who can provide support.

Along with being mentally and physically strong, you also need to be spiritually strong too. On your path to reaching your goal, you may end up feeling as if you have no purpose and at a point like this, some spirituality can prove to be quite helpful.

Above all, persevering depends on staying true to yourself and your values, which means you should act accordingly. Change something about your life only if you feel that it is wrong and continue making corrections until you have reached your goal.

Conclusion

As mentioned, you need to keep moving forward in order to persevere, and hopefully the above tips will help you keep moving until you have truly persevered and reached your goal or goals.

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Changing

We nearly all want to change ourselves, usually by trying to develop better habits, like tidying after ourselves, writing more, eating less, etc. It is not always easy. Changing those habits can be hard, it moves us out of our comfort zone to somewhere we can feel VERY uncomfortable. But there are creative ways to help yourself stick to your chosen goals to make them part of your life.

Anticipate

One way to help stay focused on your goal is to anticipate what MIGHT happen. Look forward and work out what might derail your progress. We often plan for change but we never actually try and see what actually might interrupt out plans. If you think about these, you may be able to include them in your plan in a way that helps you stick to your goals.

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Keep to the Path

Stick to your chosen path or if necessary find a new suitable path if an obstacle appears. Obstacles can derail you from your chosen path but if you keep your path in mind or find another suitable one if that is blocked can mean you keep your eye on the game and focus on what you want to achieve.

Learn

Learn from any setbacks instead of giving up on the goal. If you fall, get up and carry on, you do not need to stop because of one fall or even several. Ask yourself what made you fall? What lessons can you learn? And how do you stop that type of fall in future?

Focus

Keeping focus when the going gets tough is what actually makes moving towards the goal worthwhile. By the time you achieve your goal, you will have grown as a person.

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Successful Traits

Success is something that everyone wishes to attain. However, attaining success is not easy. If it was, everyone who wanted it would have it. The most successful people in the world started at the bottom and worked their way to the top. Here are the 3 traits that successful people show that you NEED to copy!

Work Hard

Successful people know that they cannot get anywhere in life without hard work. They are guided by the basic science of life, which states that your output depends largely on your input. They depend on their ambition and skills to get them where they desire to be in life. They do not depend on luck.
In addition, successful people make sacrifices to get to their desired position. They don’t complain about how hard they work because they know it will pay off in the end. They are always focused and nothing can stop them from working towards their dream.

Be Curious and Eager To Learn

Most people prefer to stay in their warm and cozy comfort zone and they don’t like to explore and learn new things. However, successful people are curious and always willing to learn. They are open-minded and always learning something new. They constantly ask questions with the hope of finding out more information.
They are aware that knowledge is a backbone to success. Therefore, they take advantage of it and apply what they learn in their lives. Successful people always want to learn about everything that they are curious about. If you have lost your curiosity, it’s time to change. Be open-minded and you’ll be on your way to success.

Never Quit

In the world today, most people walk away from things they find too hard. However, successful people don’t do that. They love challenges. They face their challenges and work hard until they overcome them. Successful people would rather die than quit at a challenge they are facing. They have passion for what they do.
Their main goal is to be on top and be the best at whatever they do because that is where their passion and ambition lies. If you have been quitting when faced with challenges, it’s time to change. Face your challenges and work hard to overcome them. That way, you’ll find yourself joining the list of successful people. Quitters never win.

There you have it. The 3 traits of successful people that you need to copy. Emulate them and you’ll see a difference in your life. You can also share them with your friends. As they say, sharing is caring.

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Personal Productivity

Being productive has been a big issue for many people who need to improve their daily performance. However, with proper planning you will always know what to do whenever you need to improve your performance. Here is an expert guide on how to plan your day for productivity:

Have a personal system

For you to be productive during the day, you must have a personal system that works well for you whenever you need to improve your personal performance. How do you create a personal system? You should know your strengths and weaknesses when planning your day especially when you need to get more out of it in the best way possible.

When you plan your day well, you will be in a position to work effectively and arrange any given tasks throughout the day. Breaking up your day into time slots will allow you to segment your tasks throughout the day and separate them. This is an effective tactic that will allow your brain to switch off between tasks, meaning you can focus more on each job.

Focus on what to do to eliminate distractions

When you need to improve personal performance and activity during the day, you must eliminate distractions as one way of ensuring that you stay active for the whole day. Through this process, you can ensure that you are constantly on task and putting maximum effort into the task. You should never worry about distractions when you need to have the best performance during the day. For instance, you should avoid checking your emails when you do not need to do so and discourage interruptions as much as possible. As one cartoonist put it when asked if he could spare one minute to talk, “I can spare the one minute but not the 15 it will then take me to get back into the flow of my work!”

Manage your mood

Research has shown that many people often fail to succeed because of their inability to manage their moods during the day. You have to ensure that you become positive whenever you need to manage your mood in an amazing way. When you stay positive, you will always be able to do more things that ultimately lead to success at the end of the day. Don’t allow others to affect your mood, if at all possible. For instance, if someone pushes their way in front of you in a queue of cars during your morning commute, you need to forget about that once in work, otherwise you are allowing someone else to determine your mood.

Focus on quality work during the day

When you need to plan your day and become more productive, you must focus on quality work. Everything that you do should be of a higher standard.

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Self Esteem

Self esteem describes how we feel about ourselves. Often our self esteem or sense of self worth is based on our perception of our abilities and how we believe other people accept and value us as individuals. We can automatically find ourselves accepting those beliefs and then they feel like ‘reality’ to us.

Goal Setting

To be successful in goal setting you need to do more than just plan and write down your goals. You need to change your mind set and challenge some of the biggest fears that you have, and equally as importantly, develop your own self-belief or self esteem. Goal setting can help you achieve success and happiness in your life. Remember, success in life is determined by your self-concept. You should therefore do everything in your power to improve your positive feelings about yourself while holding on to your humility.

 

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Change and grow

Change is something a lot of people strive to achieve. However change is very hard. Everyone wants to change and develop habits that make them better people. This is not always easy since there is a certain way that people are used to living their lives and doing things. Getting away from a comfort zone is difficult and therefore, most people find themselves back to square one repeating the same things they used to do. There are creative ways to help yourself stick to your goals and actually make them a part of your new life.

Anticipate

One of the creative things that can make you stick to your goal is a habit of always anticipating. It is very important to look forward and figure out some of the things that have the capability of derailing your progress. This is important because often times, we plan for change but we never actually try and see some of the things that might interrupt our progress. If you think about some of the potential obstacles in your mind, it can help you incorporate them in your plan in a way that enables you to stick to your goals even when the disruptions take place.

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