Are You Willing To Follow 5 Easy Steps
To Staying Motivated?
By:
Chris Sullivan
Every day of your life you are selling
yourself, nothing happens until you're successful at doing that.
We're all in the selling business whether
we like it or not. It doesn't matter whether you're a lawyer or an
accountant, a manager or a politician, an engineer or a doctor.
We all spend a great deal of our time
trying to persuade people to buy our product or service, accept
our proposals or merely accept what we say.
Before you get better at persuading or
influencing other people - you need to get better at
self-motivation and selling yourself.
Motivational experts are paid a lot of
money to tell executives, looking for that next "big" deal, that
they must constantly evaluate these factors. How do you do that?
Follow the 5 tips that follow, and watch the changes.
1. Maintain a Positive Attitude –
Let's realize that life is only 10% of what happens to us and 90%
how we react to it. You are responsible for our own actions and
attitudes, and altering them when needed. When you're around
people/things that are uplifting and positive, you feel that way.
You have more confidence in yourself, and know you can change
whatever needs changing. If you can make your workplace such a
place you'll find happier workers and higher production. You might
even find your employees look forward to coming to work!
2. Everyone has problems, but they
don't belong at work, so leave your personal troubles home. Focus
your attention and energy completely on your daily tasks. This
will actually be good for you because you'll get a mental break
from your troubles.
3. Create Positive Affirmations -
The reason for writing goals for your business is the same as
creating positive affirmations on paper. What your eyes see and
ears hear, your mind will believe. Try it! After you've written
them down, read them aloud to yourself – and do it every morning
when you get into work. You'll be blown away at what happens. Come
up with a set of new ones every month. Statements such as, "I'm an
important and valuable person," or "I know I'll make good use of
my time today." Repeating them out loud everyday at a set time
will help reinforce positive actions.
4. Make Sure Break Times Are Really
Break Times - This is an area where most bosses/entrepreneurs
fall down. You become so intense about the project or situation
you're working on that you don't ease up. Thinking that it'll be
solved in the next few seconds, and then you'll get a cup of
coffee can lead you right up to quitting time. Regularly adhering
to a specified break schedule, even if you're the boss, releases
the tension. If you work on a computer this is even a greater
problem because before you realize it – you've been working in
that same position for hours. The best answer to this is to set
yourself a reminder on your appointment calendar for every 2
hours, and let the computer reminder chime send you the alert to
move around.
5. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise - I
know that lately it seems that "exercise" is the cure-all to every
physical ailment or your love life, but despite that there is some
truth to that ugly word. By "exercise" I don't mean that you
should go out and join a gym and spend your lunch-time,
3-days-a-week there working out. Get up and walk around your desk
or room, when the noises and distraction from your computer
becomes obnoxious. Try going outside and get the mail and enjoy
the sunlight (if you're an entrepreneur that has a home office),
or just get up and take a deep breath. Tense and knotted muscles
are the result of concentrated, tense thinking, typing or whatever
your work. Then when we move we "ooh" and "ouch" because we've
knotted up into a ball of tension. Periodic stretching, even at
our desk, or just getting up and walking over to the window and
getting a different view can help. One of the greatest disservice
modern business décor has done to us, is making our offices
pristine, sleek, unencumbered spaces. There is nothing more
relaxing than getting up from your desk and walking over to a
peaceful, serene, seascape or pastoral painting and just drinking
it in visually. Momentarily transporting your mind out of work and
into that place does wonders. A few good paintings and less shiny
chrome in offices would benefit us all.
It only takes a little concentrated effort
on our part to keep motivated and productive, which leads to
success. I know you're going to hate hearing this, but it's true
anyway – and that is, "WHEN LIFE GIVES YOUR LEMONS – MAKE
LEMONADE!"
Copyright (c) 2007 Chris Sullivan
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