Five Easy Steps to Staying Motivated

Five Easy Steps to Staying Motivated

Motivating yourself to excel at your job or to be an example to your employees, should not be something you do only when the spirit moves you. It’s an ongoing process that should include every facet of your business life. This means your mental attitude, physical well-being and appearance, work atmosphere, your interaction with others (clients and employees alike), and your off-the-job environment.

Motivational experts get paid big bucks to tell professionals, striving for success, that they must constantly examine these factors. How do you do that? Follow the 5 tips that follow, and watch the changes.

1. Maintain a Positive Attitude – Let’s realize that life is only 10% of what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. We’re responsible for our own actions and attitudes, and changing them when appropriate. When you’re around people/things that are uplifting and positive, you feel that way. You have more confidence in yourself, and know you can change whatever needs changing. If you can make your workplace such a place you’ll find happier workers and higher production. You might even find your employees look forward to coming to work!

2. Leave Personal Troubles Home - Everyone has problems, but they don’t belong at work. Turn your attention and energy entirely to your on-the-job tasks. This will actually be good for you because you’ll get a mental break from your troubles.
3. Create Positive Affirmations - The reason for writing goals for your business is the same as creating positive affirmations on paper. What your eyes see and ears hear, your mind will believe. Try it! After you’ve written them down, read them aloud to yourself – and do it every morning when you get into work. You’ll be amazed at what happens. Come up with a set of new ones every month. Statements such as, “I’m an important and valuable person,” or “I know I’ll make good use of my time today.” Repeating them out loud everyday at a set time will help reinforce positive actions.

4. Make Sure Break Times Are Really Break Times - This is an area where most bosses/entrepreneurs fall down. You become so intense about the project or situation you’re working on that you don’t ease up. Thinking that it’ll be solved in the next few seconds, and then you’ll get a cup of coffee can lead you right up to quitting time. Regularly adhering to a specified break schedule, even if you’re the boss, releases the tension. If you work on a computer this is even a greater problem because before you realize it – you’ve been working in that same position for hours. The best answer to this is to set yourself a reminder on your appointment calendar for every 2 hours, and let the computer reminder chime send you the alert to move around.

5. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise - I know that lately it seems that “exercise” is the cure-all to every physical ailment or your love life, but despite that there is some truth to that ugly word. By “exercise” I don’t mean that you should go out and join a gym and spend your lunch-time, 3-days-a-week there working out. What is really beneficial and workable is that at those chiming alerts from your computer, get up and walk around your desk or room. Maybe go outside and get the mail and enjoy the sunlight (if you’re an entrepreneur that has a home office), or just get up and do a few stretches. Concentrated, tense thinking – typing - plotting plans - or whatever your work, makes all those muscles tighten up and knot up. Then when we move we “ooh” and “ouch” because we’ve knotted up into a ball of tension. Periodic stretching, even at our desk, or just getting up and walking over to the window and getting a different view can help. One of the greatest disservice modern business décor has done to us, is making our offices pristine, sleek, unencumbered spaces. There is nothing more relaxing than getting up from your desk and walking over to a peaceful, serene, seascape or pastoral painting and just drinking it in visually. Momentarily transporting your mind out of work and into that place does wonders. A few good paintings and less shiny chrome in offices would benefit us all.

It only takes a little concentrated effort on our part to keep motivated and productive, which leads to success. I know you’re going to hate hearing this, but it’s true anyway – and that is, “WHEN LIFE GIVES YOUR LEMONS – MAKE LEMONADE!”

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SHARPEN YOUR FINANCIAL EDGE

SHARPEN YOUR FINANCIAL EDGE BY CHANGING YOUR ATTITUDE

Everyone has advice and ideas about how you can handle your finances and the way you treat money. Some say to save at every opportunity and watch every penny, some say pay off all your debt first before you even think about investing, others advocate that you live within your means, and all of these strategies have Merritt, and can even propel you forward. But think for a moment what really motivates you, what drives you to grab your finances by the throat and corral them into submission, to bend to your will and carry you on your desired path? A better standard of living for you and your family, are you tired of living from substandard point of view? well what ever motivates you to change your attitude it is always best to have as much understanding and knowledge as possible so lets explore some mantras of the rich,who knows maybe you can find a “take away point” that can help you turn that corner to financial independence.

Having the attitude that you are the master of your own future and you do not have to fall prey to the status qua is vital. People with this mindset are more likely to take responsibility for their lives, their success's as well as their failures and are more prone to learn from their mistake and failures. They will normally examine what they did wrong and make improvements and adjustments. They don't blame others or make excuse but find results which leads to them becoming successful and accomplishing their goals.

Having a “CAN DO” attitude can be the difference of waking up in the morning with a purpose and getting fired up for the day ahead or waking up in the morning and throwing the alarm clock at the wall and hating the day you were born and pulling the covers back over your head. Persons who believe that what they do has an impact on the world in real time are more likely to work hard to change their circumstances. While some may have a “victim” mentality when they awaken to the fact that they can change their circumstance nothing makes them more angry and determined to change their attitude toward wealth.

No one wants to be lead buy a person who has a lacking self-confidence and is weak in making the tough calls. But those who are confident, even over confident bordering on the fringe of arrogance has the ability to draw the masses to his point of view. People gravitate to those whom have strong conviction about their point of view because they are strong and willing to take risk and stand back up after a failure to try again. If by chance they stumble or even fall the manage to do it gracefully. They own up to the circumstance and move one by their head and shoulders down and work hard to prove themselves again.

Many of use have a fixed perspective about our abilities, and some may even think that they are not smart enough gain wealth. They see themselves as stupid and ignorant but I think it is more related to fear, fear of failure, fear of losing, fear of being ridiculed by their piers but if a person can over come these fears and negativism they can overcome all the regrets and fallacy's. The only thing that should matter is where is the best place to put that investment dollar that will give me maximum return.

Proceed without regrets and be a little anxious about your money. Having this attitude will give you a healthy availability about your money and keep you motivated to strive to protect it and your earnings. To show vigilance is better than overspending or gambling it away. Many take unnecessary risk when they come into extra money or money that isn't earned from work like a tax return or an inheritance but that money is the same as any other money and should be treated with respect. Spend those dollars as you would any other dollars you may acquire.

Essential Money Skill 2 Save it

      SAVE IT                                                                                                                    reusable facemask

OK, we have covered that you need to find ways to make money and control the money you make, simple huh? Well if it was so simple you wouldn't be reading this and seeking help just like me I personally am always looking for a better way and something I can adapt for my nee

I was going to start out by saying, “let us look into nature for more examples of saving and redistributing resources but in all honesty I just couldn't go there. Let's talk planer, you have come up with a budget that allows you pay your bill and have something left over so what do you do? Run out and spend the surplus? NO! The first thing you do is start a saving plan, look for somewhere to store your money, not CD (certificate of deposit) that come later. Look for a saving institution that will give you the highest rate of return on your money, check out credit unions they have good saving plan, what you want to do is build a nest egg that will carry you if you have and immediate or emergency need, the standing rule is three to six months of your pay. This is not easy but worth aiming for, if you take ten percent of your gross take home pay and divide that into different areas of saving that should help you build you nest egg, you don't have to put the whole ten percent in that one account but that's a good percentage to shoot for.

Another good point to no is that if you qualify for a 401k thru your employer get in as soon as you can, many employers have matching programs, this is free money so go get it, you can find all kind of information in most financial institutions but the buck stops at the IRS so check their website first www.irs.gov very helpful website. Start slow when funding your 401k or IRA until you have the swing of things use two or four percent of the ten percent you set aside. Another note for you to understand is that ten percent is the amount that you are paying yourself first! It is vital that you understand this, this money is not for entertainment, this small percentage is what will fund you nest egg and set the stage for you to have funds to invest for profit. You can borrow money to invest but like the song say's GOD BLESS THE CHILDTHAT'S GOT HIS OWN, and this is a sure fire way to get it, you just have to discipline yourself and have the desire to get in done.

There are two very powerful allies you have on you side in this endeavor, COMPOUNDING AND TIME. The definition of compounding say's; The ability of an asset to generate earning, which are then reinvested in order to generate their own earnings. In other words, compounding refers to generating earnings from previous earnings. This is also known as “ compound interest”. Now imagine doing this with a sum of money for threes years, five to ten years, even one year. I am not going to give you any numbers that is for you to figure out I am just giving you the concepts of ideas.

So now hopefully some time has passed and you have save some money to work with. You should have several pools (accounts) designated for specific purposes and needs such as. A retirement account which can consist of a 401k or IRA (wroth) or investment account just for the retirement age. Next a saving/emergency account, these funds should only be used for immediate needs, like auto repair's appliance replacements unforeseen home repairs, you can even divide the two saving and emergency so you have more control of the money and what it is used for. *note whatever you designate each account for you must stick to it for it to be successful, and now the investment account. You want to get this one as good as you can because this account is the one you are hope to show profit from and one that can become a vessel for accomplishments or can crash and burn losing all your money. In using this account as in all the other accounts you acquire you need to do your homework but in this one it would be to your best interest to study everything you can about investing such as “investing for profit” “return on investments”, “minimum risk”, “high risk”, “business structures”, you don't have to have a masters in business, but it is to your best interest to be knowledgeable if you want to succeed. You can always just stick with first few accounts mention and you can be fine. Remember all of this funding is to come from the 10% of your net income that you will pay yourself first. It may seem a little hard but practice practice and when you think you understand practice some more. This will not happen over night and you will need to discipline yourself and be patient. Remember the longest journey start with a single step.

 This can be used as the basic framework for any savings plan for beginners and young people who have not had any real training in financial matters. The main two factors you need to focus on are coming up with a good plan for yourself that fit's your needs and stick-ability (see it through to the end).