MOTIVATION FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT

MOTIVATION, THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting flunked grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us of our inability to look for a source of income. Being humiliated gives us the effentery to speak up and fight for ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may be a bitter experience, a friend's tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves. With the countless negativities the world brings about, how do we keep motivated?

The outlined, well alphabetically articulated tips for your intellectual consumption will be of great value. Kindly go through gradually and absorb completely without leaving any of them inculcated.

A- Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ìthe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.

C - Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D - Don't give up and donít give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.

E - Enjoy yourself. Work as if you don't need money. Dance as if nobody is watching you. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you'll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F - Family and Friends are life's greatest treasures. Don't loose sight of them.

G - Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.

H - Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I -  Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don't let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people and the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.

J - Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.Be the best version of yourself.

K - keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.

L - Learn to love your self. It creates an internal platform for you as an individual for your self improvement and development.

M - Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N - Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O - Open your eyes.Just like the horse, learn the horse attitude and horse sense.Always see things in 2 ways ; how you want things to be, and how you should be.

P - Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.

Q - Quitters never win and winners never quit. So, choose your fate like,  are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?

R - Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn't raining when Noah build the ark.

S - Stop procrastinating. It does you more harm than good as you are prone to lack of self improvement and optimal development.

T -Take control of your life. Discipline or self control lives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U - Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.

V - Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W - Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

X - X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on extraordinary effort on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on. The extra you do from the ordinary makes you extraordinary, being extraordinary makes you outstanding.

Y - You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because youíre just going to spend it once.You are a genius, with unique and peculiar asset in you as an individual, 

Always see yourself the only person that can be you because your real you lies in you.

Z - Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!! 

  

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RETAINING SELF HAPPINESS

Genuine Happiness Comes from Within

Life the say is never a bed of rose neither i s it the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when U feel like the world is just too heavy, You look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into your mind like bubbles from nowhere "How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life? Then You pause and observed for a while, You just cant figure it out.I've come to let you let understand that HAPPINESS can only  come when you start to work on a place called YOURSELF

So, how does one become genuinely happy?  The first step is to learn to LOVE yourself. Love yourself by thyself

How is this possibile ? "loving means accepting". love oneself means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve your repertoire to recover from our mistakes.This is a rudiment you must surely take to cognizance in order to keep your life in a sound happiness.

Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in and all the things you have now. Truly you will surely derived joy that will strengthen your life.

When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something else, and to something else. But if you keep questioning life as if it has never done you any good, you will never be able to find genuine happiness.

I believe that life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in one's life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But this should not hinder us from becoming happy. In spite of  all these, you can still be genuinely happy.

Every time you exert effort to improve the quality of life and your being, whether it is cleaning up your room, helping a friend, taking care of your sick dog, fail on board exams and trying again, life will always gives you equivalent points for that.

Imagine life as a big score board,your life is your own dashboard. Every time you take a step forward, you make scoring points. It will be nice to look at that board at the end of each effort  and endeavour you make, then  tell yourself "I got a point today, am glad I gave it a shot " instead of looking at it all blank and murmur in a demoralized manner " I didnt even hit a score today. I wish I had the guts to try out. I shouldn't have tried, would have just walk away.

Genuine happiness isn't about driving the hottest  luxurious automobile nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the highest pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes, the most sought after prizes in life doesn't always go to the fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best. So, how do you become genuinely happy? Every one has his own definition of happiness . Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success. So, really now, how do we become genuinely happy? Simple. You dont have to have the best things in this world. Its about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self Oh !, I'll do better next time,you carry with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may spread out like a brush fire. You possess a willingness to stand up again and try  that will make you a genuinely happy person.

When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass the first step  in the project of how to become genuinely happy.For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love in ten folds back.

Again, throw me that same question ìhow to become genuinely happy? I'll refer you to this strong quote saying "laughter is the best medicine of life ache and pains"

What most of us don't know is that the best kind of laughter is the laughter over self cos then you don't just become genuinely happy, you become FREE !

 

TRUST THIS MISSIVE MEETS YOU WELL, HAVE A SPLENDID WEEK !

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YOUR PERSPECTIVE FOR EXCELLENCE

"God bless your time as you meditate in this article, let the missive be well inculcated to your mind" Stay cool, relax and maintain your focus.

The word "perspective" implies a mental vision or an outlook visualization of an in depth mind picture. As it is often said " you can only feature in your desired future if you first picture it yourself"and then walk in the right track towards achieving that which you have pictured in your mind. No action takes place without been first pictured in the mind scope. Your ability to tap into the power of holding a vivid powerful image about the star in you defines your path way to excellence.This is a strong hold that incorporates and connects the power of imagery to reinforce in your mind how exactly you envision a successful outcome before you achieve it in reality. This visualization is something you have used since childhood to create circumstances of your own life,it burns through your mind just like a fire of passion, movies and pictures of the inner mind.

Each of us stores pictures in our minds about the type of relationships we deserve, the degree of success we'll attain at work, the extent of our leadership ability, the amount of money we'll earn and accumulate, and so on.
Where do these pictures come from?  Well, we begin to develop our "mental movies" early in life.  If we were criticized or felt unworthy as a youngster, we record the events (and the feelings associated with those events) as images in our minds.  Because we frequently dwell on these pictures (both consciously and subconsciously), we tend to create life situations that correspond to the original image.  For example, you may still hold a vibrant image of being criticized by a teacher in elementary school.  You felt humiliated in front of the whole class.  Later on, when you were tempted to offer your opinion in school or in a group of people, you held back and kept quiet all the while remembering (even if only on a subconscious level) how painful it was when you were criticized.  The picture remains in your mind, and exerts tremendous influence over your present actions.
Unfortunately, many of us have not updated or revised our childhood movies, so we are continually producing results that fall short of our full potential.  Here are some techniques for using the power of visualization to improve virtually every aspect of your personal and professional life:

1. Take responsibility for the pictures you are playing in your mind. No matter what the source of those images, it's you that keeps playing them. Let's try a short experiment.  Think about an ice cream cone filled with your favorite flavor of ice cream.  Does that create a picture or image for you?  I'll bet it does.  Okay, now think about an elephant.  Can you see it?  Change the color of the elephant to pink.  In a fraction of a second, you probably formed an image of the pink elephant.  Can you bring back the picture of the ice cream cone?  Of course, you can.  You have full control over the pictures that occupy your mind.  However, when you do not consciously decide which pictures to play, your mind will look into the "archives" and keep re-playing old movies on file in your mental library.
2. Accept what happened in the old movie - but change its meaning. It doesn't serve you to deny what happened in a past experience, no matter how painful or disappointing.  You can't, for instance, change the fact that you were criticized by the teacher.  You can, however, alter your interpretation of the event.  That is, at the time you were originally criticized, the meaning you might have assigned to the experience was:  "I'm not good enough," or "My opinions are worthless."  While this was the interpretation of a child, you may have inadvertently carried it into your adult life.  Today, though, you canconsciously choose to view the situation differently -- for example, the teacher may have disagreed with you, but it wasn't a statement about your intelligence or your overall worth as a person!
3. Create new pictures to move you toward what you want.  We can create new mental movies whenever we choose to do so.  And, when we develop (and concentrate on) new images that evoke powerful feelings and sensations, we will act in ways that support those new pictures!  So, the first step is to create an image of your desired outcome.  You are limited only by your imagination.  Recognize, however, that the pictures in your mind are not fulfilled overnight!  But, by being patient and by persistently focusing on these mental images, you'll automatically start acting in ways that support your vision.
4. Relax and involve your senses. What's the best method to use when concentrating on your new images?  It's been proven that your mind is most receptive to visualization when you are calm and not thinking about a lot of things simultaneously.  So, sit down in a comfortable chair at home, close your eyes and do some deep breathing exercises to clear your mind and relax your body.  Now, strive to develop images that involve as many senses as you can.  The more sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touches you put in your pictures, the more powerful the "pull" for you to make your vision a reality.

Lets assume you always dreamed of owning a beach-front house in the Caribbean.  Picture the white and peach colored house.  See the green palm trees slowly swaying in the gentle breeze.  Smell the salt air.  Feel the warm sand between you toes.  Can't you just taste it?  And all this can be yours, if you hold onto this image and do what it takes to achieve it

Also, remember that those images associated with strong emotions have even more power, so be sure to add positive feelings to your vision.  For instance, when visualizing your ideal job, combine the vivid mental picture and the physical senses with the terrific emotions of pride and satisfaction you'll have working in that new position.
 Don't be concerned with the quality of your images at the outset. Some people can create lively color pictures. . . while others have trouble getting anything more than a fuzzy image, or no image at all.  It's also possible that you may only be able to get a particular feeling at the beginning as opposed to a clear image.
In any case, don't worry about it.  Do the best you can and don't compare yourself to anyone else.  Your images will become sharper over time.  The key is to spend several minutes each day running these new movies in your mind.

Well, there you have it--some suggestions for creating and benefiting from your own mental pictures.  Remember, if you don't take control and develop your own movies, you'll continue to replay the old ones.  If the old movies are serving you, that's great.  But, if they're holding you back in any way, get started today and use the incredible power of your mind to picture your way to greater success!

The greatest threats of not maintaining a clearer perspective of excellence in life is being overly negative and pessimistic. We love over-criticizing everything, having no hope for beautiful things and losing fond admiration for the silly, whimsical aspects of life. It’s an attitude that I believe is corrupting our capability to strive for greatness in our lives.

Truth is, if you want to be great in this life, you have to model that greatness in your thinking.

You have to open your eyes up to the beauty in front of you and celebrate it. Only then will we be in the right mindset to enact change in our culture of negative and shallow mindset.

TIPS TO MAINTAIN AN IDYLLIC PERSPECTIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN YOUR LIFE.

Happiness is often a choice, so choose wisely. When life comes and sweeps you off your feet, you have the choice to remain on the ground where people will coddle you or get up so people will be inspired by you. It’s not easy, but change never is.

Complaining makes us complacent. It might make you feel better, but it’ll do so at the cost of doing something to change the situation.

The major cause of death for passion is envy. You get nowhere constantly comparing yourself to other, more successful people. Use that time instead to cultivate your passion into something world-changing.

 Life is sweeter when you celebrate little victories. Did you pay off a tiny debt? Did you finish a project that took you forever? Before diving into the next thing, take a moment to have a little victory party with your love ones. Always remain grateful for any level of accomplishments. It keeps in shape for more greater achievement.

The past only matters in how you redeem it. It doesn’t define you, imprison you or hold you back from anything. Learn to move on and change the circumstances, and life will be more hopeful.

 Be quick to forgive others, not blame others. Instead of looking to justify ourselves when situations arise, search for the greater peace that could be had. Accept responsibility if that’s what needs to happen, and move on to correct the situation.

Latch onto hope anywhere you can find it. Be ready to embrace something outside yourself, because when life comes crashing down on you, you’ll need something to bring you back to the surface. See your every challenge in your life as an opportunity to step up for greater heights.

Conclusively, don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” Make sure your hope is an anchor, not a ship sailing away, and I promise, your perspective on life will be better because of it.

Remember, in life you can only feature in that future you visualize when you can picture it yourself in a vivid perspective that links you to excellence.

Thank you for being patient in reading through this article, REMAIN BLESSED IN BOUNTIES....

     

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