Monthly Archives: January 2010

Three Steps To Self Help Motivation

How can you kick start self help
motivation
. Well first you need to find it and fortunately that’s
the easy part for it is all around us, but in our busy and hectic
lives we rarely take the time to look.

The First step. You need to chill.

Who deserves a break more than you do?
You owe it to yourself. You need to take time out to smell the roses
and anyway, overworking is non-productive.

The Second step. Look for inspiration.

While strolling on the beach or in a
park. Relaxing in the garden, reading a book or a magazine,
inspiration can strike like a bolt from out of the blue. Whenever you
truly relax, your mind will become quieter and quieter so quite that
it’s almost still and it is in this state of mind that any worries,
concerns and pressures of the day are most effectively dealt with and
with these out of the way your mind is open to the opportunities that
are all around you.

New thoughts and ideas will come to you
and you will begin to feel really inspired to investigate them more.
This is the true use of self help motivation.

The Third step. Take action.

This is so much easier to do now that
you’re chock full of inspiration and self help motivation.
Your new feeling of personal power will enable you to overcome one of
life’s greatest enemies, procrastination and the more action you take
the more focused and motivated you will become. Soon this becomes
habitual and answers to problems will seem to just pop into your
head. That is because this three step solution has become for you a
“subconscious reaction”.

But remember, it all starts with your
decision to find the time to take “The First Step”

So take a break. You deserve it.

Here are some other sites where you can learn more bout self help motivation:

  • Top 10 Tips for Self-Improvement – Listverse – While I do not always end up managing to put each of the following tips into practice, I do make a big effort to do so each day. This is a list of my favorite tips to improving your life. All it takes is a little bit each day and you …
  • How To Develop A Cool Attitude – How To Develop A Cool Attitude. How to treat others with respect and get them to respect you.
  • Personal Development Tips – EruptingMind Self Improvement Tips. Free Health Money Self Improvement Advice Ideas Tips Personal Development Tips. What Do You Want To Do .

I wish you Health, Wealth and Happiness.

Video-Self Help Motivation – Look Where You’re Going

Self Help Motivation

What is Self Help Motivation and why do we need it?

There are basically two types of self help motivation. “Away From” motivation and “Towards” motivation.

Perhaps a couple of examples are in order.

“Away From” motivation

1# You have an exam to sit tomorrow. You haven’t studied. You have only this evening to learn what you need to know, so you cram like mad through to the early hours of the morning because you really need to pass that exam. The fact that you left it to the last minute motivates you to study hard.

2# You really should have made that car payment but you just haven’t got round to it. Now the car company is chasing you and you need your car, so you make sure you pay that bill just as quickly as you can.

In both of these examples your motivation is “fear based”. i.e. Something you “don’t” want to happen. The fear of failing at an exam and the fear of losing your car.

“Towards” motivation

Lets use the same examples. You know you have an important exam coming up and that you have time to study for it. You plan your study sessions out and stick to them because you want to sit the exam in a calm and relaxed way, thereby giving yourself the best chance of passing.

You know that your car is important to you and that your car company gives payment discount if you pay automatically via your bank so you set up automatic car payments so that that you never miss a payment and you save some money.

Here your motivation is “expectancy based”. i.e. Something that you “do” want to happen. You plan ahead, expecting a good outcome.

Now here’s the important thing. Neither of these motivation types are “right” or “wrong”. It all depends on the circumstances and the way you work.

You may be the kind of person who actually does better at exams by leaving everything to the last minute. I know I am. You may prefer to juggle your finances on a day to day basis than to leave everything to someone else.

Whichever type we are, we all need motivation or to be motivated from time to time. This motivation might come from a friend, a family member or even an enemy. It might come from a film you’ve watched or music you’ve listened to or an inspiring book that you’ve read. It can come from something you don’t want or something that you do want.

So how can we ensure ourselves of some Self Help Motivation. Here are are some tips that I hope will help.

Create a No Neg Zone. Stay away from Negative Places. Negative Things. Negative People.

Avoid the dream stealer’s. We’ve all met some of them.

Avoid procrastination.

Visualise that which you want.

Ask yourself why you want that which you want. The bigger the WHY the greater the motivation.

Conclusion.

Self Help Motivation will create the link between your self-development and the incredible life that you can aspire to. Know that it can be so.

There Are No Such Things As Mistakes, Only Feedback and Self Help Motivation