Sunday, May 25, 2008

Write-ups on Motivating Yourself For Success

Success is a progressive realisation of goals, these goals being completely different depending on the individual's ambitions, ability and expectations.

Personal responsibility is one of the most important aspects of self motivation. It involves making the commitment to a goal, and following that commitment through to ensure that success is achieved. However, if you have no picture of what success is, there is no reason to achieve it. In order to put ourselves on the path of success, we need first to establish what success is to us as individuals. You need to work out what you really want to achieve, what will make you happy, be it a career path, an MBA or simply a happy and healthy family. You need to look inside yourself and work it out. Looking yourself in the mirror everyday and seeing yourself as the person you want to be rather than the person you are today.

Self-trust is the first secret of success ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me share with you what success meant to some of my friends........
  • "success is achieving my goals within a certain time frame"
  • "to be able to have a happy life, be comfortable and able to afford to spoil myself occasionally"
  • "having a happy married life"
Motivation is "a force from within that you feel, and the starting point is the motive itself, which is success". Thus, the motivation for success comes from the desire to achieve that success in the end.

Allow me again to share a short and very logical phrase which I've read:

"When we are small, we have big dreams, but when we are big our dreams become small, but there is no reason for us to discard our dreams when we grow up. Even if our dreams seem unrealistic as adults, if we still try to achieve them, even if we fail, at least we can say we have made a commitment to something and we know that we have given it our best"

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill ~


"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be satisfied"
~ Albert Schweitzer ~

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