Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2007

How to stay motivated throughout the day

Here are some tips:

For long lasting motivation and positivity:

-Listen to motivating, enthusing music everyday with full concentration.

-Listen to motivational tapes (audio) everyday for around 30 minutes every day. ( Zig Zagler, Brian Tracy etc.)
-Act. The very act of doing something with all your concentration is extremely positive.
-Get into flow frequently. Getting into flow means that you forget everything else but the task at hand. You and the creative/ designing/ brain storming /intellectual work you're doing become one and the same.
-Read enthusing books and articles whenever possible.
-Be disciplined and agile – and never lethargic. Lethargy breeds negativity.
-Talk positive all the time. “I want to”, “let me help you” “ no probs, we'll do it anyway”.
-Make sure you're never idle. Work is worship. Either you work or you think positive thoughts.
-Never procrastinate. Never ever. If you must, then decide right now exactly when you're going to do that job and tis is only if there is a rock solid reason for not doing it now. Procrastination is immensly negative.
-Stay away from negative people, negative influences. If you need to interact, make sure you overwhelm yourself with positivity while you talk to people who have been habituated to thinking negatively.
-Meditate – calmly sit and think about all the beautiful things you have. Think about how beautiful the world is and be calm.
-Help other people without expecting anything in return. This fills you with irresistable joy.

Why on earth did he do that?

This is based on a true story:


He toiled by day, he toiled by night
He rowed and rowed with all his might,
And as he rowed, he dreamt in mirth,
To become the fastest rower on earth.


Can I do it? He often thought.
And then his mind was filled with gloom;
“Shut up!” He spurned this spurious thought,
And went back to work with his broom.


“You fool”, they said, “you simpleton!
The Olympic gold is not won,
By people like you and me”,
As he rowed past them with glee.


And when the trials drew so – so near,
His heart was numb and filled with fear.
He failed, he stumbled, he came last
Way behind the winner’s mast.

He tried again, again and again.
(They said that he tried in vain!)
Until one day, this man from nix,
He made it to the Olympics!


The race began, he rowed unafraid,
Body, heart, soul in unison swayed.
And as he led the scowling pack
He turned around and looked aback.

An opponent’s boat had turned about,
He could see faces popping out,
Of the water. As all other rowers over took,
He jumped into the slashing brook.

The waves hit him on the face,
He knew he had lost the race.
But heart and nerve and sinew he risked,
As a panting comrade he frisked.

When all was over, all was done,
When the Gold had gone to the chosen one,
A special award was announced,
And he the recipient pronounced.

For victory and loss are common things
But there are even greater kings.
By choosing not to row, but dive
He’d kept the spirit of the Olympics alive.