What Motivates You?
What motivates you to get up and get going every morning?
How do you know which opportunities to accept and which to reject?
To run a successful business there are things that need to get done, many of them need to be done consistently.What happens when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed and do not want to get up to do anything?You've probably read tons of tips and strategies to get yourself motivated. I know I have!A lot of these are nothing more than positive success habits, such as creating your to-do list, or freewriting.
Positive success habits WILL get you to where you’re going a lot faster. They do not really motivate you. They are your “How.”Positive success habits do not help you to consciously create the success habits needed for you to achieve your dreams and goals.The #1 motivator is simply knowing your why.
“If we want to feel an undying passion for our work, if we want to feel we are contributing to something bigger than ourselves, we all need to know our WHY.” “the combination of your WHY and HOWs is as exclusively yours as your fingerprint.” ~ Simon Sinek
What is your why?
Your why is something that is very deep and personal to you.Your intuition – your true self knows what is, even if you’ve sent it to a corner and told it to be quiet for years.Some questions to ponder – and yes, I recommend freewriting and journaling your answers – are:
1) What lights you on fire? You get excited and tingly just thinking about it.
2) What activities make you lose track of time? Hours literally seem like minutes.
3) What would you like your world to look like? This question can encompass the whole world or your own private world.
4) What would you do if you had a billion dollars? After getting the house, the car, the plane, etc., how would you be filling your days and who would you be serving?
Knowing Your Why ….… provides clarity on the things you need to do and the opportunities to say yes to.… keeps you focused because you know what you want the end game to look like.… provides the fuel to keep you motivated when faced with obstacles and challenges.
There is no right or wrong why. Your why could be to provide a better life for your children or grandchildren. It could be to get us one step closer to world peace. It could be to teach inner-city kids how to set and achieve goals. It could be to make people healthier one person at a time or to help others achieve business success.Know your why. Remember your why. Trust your intuition and your path will be shown to you.Ask yourself if building your list is congruent with your why ... and how many more people you can serve.
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