subject: How Motivation Could Affect Your Business [print this page] Happiness and success can't be achieved by just reading books or making some simple changes in your life. It calls for long continuous effort and perseverance. Are you aware that unsuccessful people would more often talk about their problems, worries or what they don't want? They are most often found inclined to talking of what they would like or want, but successful people, on the other hand, would generally talk in terms of their preferred chosen goals. That's one main difference in the thinking and talking of the two kinds of people.
Successful people have already set their goals and drawn the plans for achieving them. They cultivate and practice self-discipline needed for execution of their plans for reaching the goals. They are a disciplined lot who never lose sight of their drawn out plans for achieving the goal. They have faith in themselves, and don't get carried away by the opinion of others on their plans.
A very important personality trait of successful people is that they look at stumbling blocks as part of the process of learning and wouldn't get perturbed.
Surely, you have come across people who would find an escape route for their failures. This group of people often tends to have an escapist attitude. They would rather watch a show on the TV or get engrossed in some other unproductive activity to stop thinking of their failures. These are, but some of the characteristics of unsuccessful people. You would often find them telling you why are they unable to do what they would like to do. "If only..." is the most often uttered exclamation of these people.
But, couldn't we say that the term "unsuccessful" is relative? Doesn't it imply that one couldn't succeed to the desired level and hence termed successful? Unsuccessful are those who are not cent percent happy with their life, yet are not willing to make any efforts to change that.
Motivation is what is often found lacking with unsuccessful people. They don't seem to be excited to reach their set goals. Unless you get motivated you can't achieve goals. Unless you really love or enjoy doing what you are doing, motivation doesn't set in. You have to be passionate of what you are doing for being successful in achieving it.
As you begin to feel success coming your way, you get more motivated. It leads you to becoming more disciplined, and discipline further encourages you to remain concentrated on your goals. You get inclined to revise or improve upon your set goals due additional information coming on your way up. You realize the challenges of everyday and don't find excuses for escaping those and face them instead, again learning something new in the process.
As you get used to accomplishing your goals, you'll find yourself in a different state of mind all the time and frequently talking about achieving them. It changes your attitude about others and about life in general and you remain more optimistic of things.
The only way to succeed for a not so successful person is to get motivated, be industrious and remain disciplined. It takes time and perseverance to reach your goal and doesn't happen overnight.
