Today’s Thought: How to Stay Motivated

by, Corey Wells

Motivation starts with a goal. What is it your really want from life. What is it that absolutely pains you to live without. If you don’t have that burning desire, than you really don’t have a goal. You have to want something so bad it hurts.

Once you have your goal and it’s something that you can’t live without, motivation becomes easy. Simply focus on what you want and the steps you have to take to get there. Create a path for yourself. Once you have the plan, it’s as simple as following it. Just focus on the next step.

If, things change or are not leading you to your ultimate goal. Then change your path. Scout out a new way to get you where you want to go. Don’t give in to temporary road blocks, where there is a will there is a way!

So how do you stay motivated.

1. Decide what you really want. Make it something that you can’t live without. Something that causes you to feel pain because you don’t have it now.
2. Decide that this goal will be yours. No matter what you’ll do everything you, ethically, can to achieve this goal.
3. Create a plan to reach your goal. Make simple steps that you will follow everyday that will lead you to your ultimate goal.
4. Change directions if you hit a road block. Don’t let anything stop you…
5. Don’t Quit! If you created the goal, you can achieve the goal. You can do anything you set your mind on. The only limitation facing you is yourself. Don’t get in the way of your dreams.

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1. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
   -Archimedes,
2. “Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.””
   Yiddish Proverb
3. ” I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
   -Diane Ackerman,
4. ” Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.”
   -Aristotle,
5. ” Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
   -Antonin Artaud,
6. ” It takes most men five years to recover from a college education.”
   -Brooks Atkinson,
7. ” Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
   -Saint Augustin,
8. ” Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
   -Marcus Aurelius,

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