Motivating the Motivator

How do you keep yourself motivated?

When it is your job to help motivate other people it is obvious you must first
know how to motivate yourself.

What do you do when life does not always move in the direction you had planned? Even when you set goals, stay focused upon your desires and use the universal laws, you still live in a world with other people who get to make their own choices. Theirs may not always align themselves with yours.

Napoleon Hill says, "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

This statement may not give you comfort in the midst of your crisis. But it does offer the motivation of looking for what great thing will come out of it.

It reminds me of the statement my coach use to make when I would get injured, riddled with pain, he would say, “It will feel better when it quits hurting.” Oh thanks coach for the words of encouragement.

At least Hill’s statement is based upon the universal laws knowing that some how you can turn your crisis into a greater benefit.

So when you are facing adversity how do you turn this around for your benefit?

Remember who you are!

The power to recover from any adversity is in your awareness of who you are. Knowing the “real you.” Knowing your strengths, gifts, and talents. Knowing your mission and sense of purpose. You have the power to shift everything to your favor by the use of your thoughts.

In other words, what will you dwell upon?

Will you dwell upon the pain? Feeling sorry for yourself? Allow thoughts of failure to control you? Or will you keep your thoughts and emotions focused upon turning this event into something positive?

When you admire others it is so easy to forget to look at the temporary defeats they had to experience. You forget that your chosen celebrities have all faced adversity to get where they are.

Hill later says, “No follower of this philosophy can reasonably expect to accumulate fortune without experiencing ‘temporary defeats'.....A Quitter Never Wins and a Winner Never Quits.”

Steve Hart