Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Motivation Is Inside Us

What is motivation? Even after our needs are fulfilled, are we still being motivated? Is motivation something that every person can develop?

Motivation is inside us. If a person is truly motivated to achieve success, it is because of the desire that comes from his inner self, a desire that was inbuilt and remain there even when rewards or recognition are removed. Stephen R. Covey once said, “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

Motivation is an attitude. An attitude is defined as the way we think, feel and act. The way we think determines the way we feel which determines the way we act. “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.” Charles Swindoll

Attitude has two types: positive and negative. There is no neutral attitude. You can change your life simply by changing your attitude. John Maxwell once said, “Your problem is not your problem. Your attitude – how you handle your problem is your problem.”

We may not be able to change the world around us, but we can change our attitude. Rob Conkln once said, “Our attitude is not determined by circumstances but by how we respond to circumstances.” Robert Schuller also said, “The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.”

“At best I.Q. contributes 20% to the factors that determines life’s success which leaves 80% to other forces.” Emotional Intelligence. William Shakespeare said, “There is nothing whether good or bad, but your attitude make it so.”



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Monday, November 27, 2006

Business Quotes To Motivate Us

“Entrepreneurs are people who dare to do things which others think are impossible to accomplish.” Kenny Yap

“For more people to become entrepreneurs, we have to change our attitude towards those who fail.” Lee Kuan Yew

“Businessmen fish in troubled waters. When the sea looks very calm, you are unlikely to catch fish. But when you see trouble on the water, then you should fish there because the big fish are driving the small fish up to the surface….In every crisis, big fortunes are made.” Robert Kuok Hock Nien

“It is during hard and suffering times that we learned a lot. I learned to be a bill collector, a supermarket guard…I learned to be everything. When times are good, we don’t really feel the need to do extraordinary, therefore we learn less.” Datuk Maznah Hamid

“I have never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.” Mike Todd

“What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don’t see is the 99 percent which are my failures.” Soichiro Honda

“Opportunities of all sorts abound in troubled times….good times are good but bad times are still better.” Konosuke Matsushita

“Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.” Chilton



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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Motivate Yourself To Succeed

“Success" is subjective. It means different things to different people. Some equate success to wealth and material possessions, others is the attainment of good health, peace of mind or a happy family.

Remember success is not a function of academic achievement, intelligence, heredity or luck because winners are not born; they are made with proper planning and hardwork.
Robert Collier once said, “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“No one can really pull you up very high – you loose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.” Justice Brandeis.

How to motivate yourself to succeed? You must have high self-esteem, clear sense of direction and purpose, perseverance and persistence, superior human relations, action-oriented attitude, focus on your unique strength, high level of discipline, delay gratification and practice continuous self improvement.

Success is 85% attitude and 15% aptitude. William James once said, “Our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task will determine its successful outcome.”

Dream and motivate yourself to succeed in life. T.E Lawrence said, “All men dream, but not equally. Those men who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the morning to find it was but vanity, but those men who dream by day – these are dangerous men, for they dream with open eyes to make their dreams come true.”



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Friday, November 24, 2006

Great Quotes To Motivate Us

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what we will do, by finding what we will not do. And probably he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.” Samuel Smiles

A philosopher, Horace Kallen once said, “There are persons who shape their lives by the fear of death and persons who shape their lives by the joy and satisfaction of life. The former live by dying; the latter die living.”

The ability to work smarter and live happier is a never-ending journey. Enjoy your weekend. “For many people weekend time has become not a chance to escape work but a chance to create work that is more meaningful – to work at recreation in order to realize the personal satisfaction that the workplace no longer offers.” Witold Rybezynski.

Goethe once said, “I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently know their own aims.”

Listen to differing opinions and leave the egos behind. Edward de Bono once said, “People with high IQs tend to use their intelligence to successfully defend their point of view. They never listen, never seek alternatives. That doesn’t make for good thinking.”



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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Motivation To Drive Employees

Employees want more than salary alone as a source of motivation to inspire them to meet up with the growing job demands. Individuals see motivation as an inspiration that drive out the positive behaviour at work. Employer uses motivation as an “accelerator” to push their employees to go beyond their expected performance.

Dale Carnegie once said, “Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about you own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.”

Employees want good work condition, reward, recognition and respect. Rewards can be in the form of intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic rewards are job satisfaction, career opportunities, job challenge and opportunity for creativity. Extrinsic includes performance related pay, incentives, fringe benefits, job status and job safety.

Recognition consists of training, career development and support. Respect includes empowerment, trust and transparency.

King Whitney Jr. once said, “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worst. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”

“The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” Cicero


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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Motivation With Abundance Mentality Attitude

An abundance mentality attitude is more than having a positive mental attitude. A positive mental attitude is when you look at how things can be done rather than why it can’t be done.

People with an abundance mentality attitude believe the following:

O The more I sell, the more there is to sell
O The more I give, the more there is to give
O The more I know, the more there is to know
O If I need money, I’ll find the money.
O If I need people, I’ll find the people.
O There is enough resources available to accomplish their goal.
O They are happy when friends prosper.

They help others grow. “When you help another person get to the top of a mountain, you will arrive there also.” A wise philosopher once said.

Micheal Jordan once said, “Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.”
Change your attitude to “abundance mentality” today and get yourself motivated to achieve success.

Zig Ziglar once said, “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

William James ( 1842-1910) once said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”


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Monday, November 13, 2006

Motivation By Believing In Yourself

Robert H. Schuller once said, “Every achiever that I have ever met says; ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.”

Believing in ourselves is the most powerful tools in motivation. Even how much friends motivate us, how much our parents, teachers and leaders motivate and inspire us but when don’t response positively and act, we will not change for the better. Change our thinking and our attitude then. Fred Smith once said, “You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now.”

Believe that you too can be a better person. Theodore Roosevelt said, “Do what you want, with what you have, where you are.” Do not quit. Bernard Baruch once said, “People of mediocre ability often achieve success because they don’t know enough to quit.”

Do what you like to do and do more, you will be happy. A.W. Robertson once said, “If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. The moment he does more, he is a free man.”

“Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.” Joel Hawes.

Take care of your health. “You will never appreciate your health until you are sick.” Richard Nixon.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Can Failure Motivate Us?

“Failure is a lack of success in doing or achieving something, or in a particular area of activity.” Collins Cobuild Dictionary.

Looking at failure as something negative will surely bring you more miseries. However if you perceive failure as something positive, you will be awarded with success. Do not fear failure as what was once said by Dr. J Allan Peterson, “Everyone at one time or another has felt like a complete failure. Many have allowed the fear of failure to destroy them. Actually, fear is far more destructive than failure and in any area of life fear of failure can defeat you before you get started.”

Failures do motivate us to work hard to achieve success. Thomas Watson once said, “Most people make a common mistake by thinking of failure as the enemy of success. You’ve got to put failure to work for you….Go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.”

Failure motivates us to succeed. “We never learn from success, we learn from our failures.” John Naisbitt. Past failures are actually guidepost for future success. “When you fall and get up it does something to you. It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up each time. It is the getting up that count.” Yoritomo Tashi.

Henry Ford once said, “Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

“Until you believe in yourself you won’t believe in your failure.” Anonymous.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Can Poverty Inspire And Motivate Us?

Can poverty inspire and motivate us? Depending on how we look at poverty, whether we look at it positively or negatively. We can always comment that a cup of water is half full or half empty. Clement Stone once said, “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

Confuscius was and orphaned at an early age. Booker T was born into slavery, but became the most influential black leader and educator of his time. Konosuke Matsushita, born in 1894 and with 100 yen started his business in a single rented room of 130 square feet and built one of the largest electrical appliance firms in the world.

“Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In summary, the purpose of suffering is to repair that which is faulty in man’s responsibility.” Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik.

Pain, problem and sufferings have to be experience by every human. Their existence indicates that they definitely have a role to play in our lives. They are bitter, but after all not all good medicines are sweet.
Annie Besant once said, “One of the strangest traits lies in the fact that it takes tragedy, failure or some form of misfortune to make us realize the power of a positive mental attitude.”

Poverty, suffering and problems do inspire and motivate us to work hard and smart to achieve success.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Motivated By Being Handicapped

John Milton was blind, yet he could write England’s greatest poem. Beethoven was also stone blind, but yet again he could composed some of the most beautiful music ever. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken by polio and was paralysed from the waist down at the age of 39, was elected president of the United States, not once but to a fourth term.

What drives these people to achieve such a success? The answer is their handicap. Helen Keller said, “I thank God for my handicaps for without them I could not have succeeded.”
Thinking that they have failed and not accepting failure and handicaps as reasons, they were motivated to prove otherwise. Dr K. Sri Dhamananda once said, “To learn from failure is to achieve success. Never to have failed is never to have won. Unless we experience failure and its bitterness, we will never appreciate the sweetness of victory.”

They have perseverance and concentration. C.W. Wendte once said, “Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.” They have faith and confidence in themselves. Douglas Mac Arthur said, "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair”.