Real Motivation

You can have all the support around you - the right people, the right nutrition, the right workouts, but no one is going to carry it all out except for YOU! You make it happen! You go to the gym, you make the choice what to put in your mouth, you, change your attitude, you organize your life! Give yourself the credit! When you need motivation, what and who do you go to! Other's motivation lasts for a moment. The motivation inside you - that is lasting.

A friend of mine suggested a good book to read that I've probably mentioned before titled, "Life's Greatest Lessons" by Hal Urban. In it there is a chapter on motivation. He says, 'I don't believe in making wild promises like "you can have it all" or "you can be anything." I think people want and need something that lasts longer and helps them deal with life as it really is. We need to know two things about motivation, 1) Successful people accept responsibility for their own lives - the don't wait for someone else to motivate them; they do it themselves. 2) The origin of the word motivation comes from motive, which is defined as "that within the individual, rather than without, which causes him or her to act." In other words, all of our actions have motives, or reasons. They come from needs deeply felt inside and no one else can fill them for us.

The Three Keys to Motivating Yourself
~Do you have enough desire to attain it?
~Do you have a real belief that you can accomplish it?
~Do you have a clear mental picture of yourself achieving it?

If your answer to all three things is a confident YES, then you're ready. Because these are the keys to being self-motivated.

Motivation starts with a sense of desire...When you want something, you become motivated to get it. ~Dennis Waitley~