100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF (1-10)
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Nurhidayah Abdullah
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace,
Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that’s creativity.”
-Charles Mingus-
#1 – GET ON YOUR DEATHBED
Ø
Pretending you aren’t
going to die is detrimental(menjejaskan) to your enjoyment of life. It is
detrimental in the same way that it would be detrimental for a baskeyball
player to pretend there was no end to the game he was playing. That player
would reduce his indensity, adopt a lazy playing style, and, of course, end up
not having any fun at all. Without an end, there is no game.
Ø
Without being
conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life.
#2 – STAY HUNGRY
Ø What you do is create a vision of who you want to be,
and then live into that picture as if it were already true. Create a
vision, not receive a vision. You create one. In other words, you make
it up.
Ø The motivation can be created right now – better now than later. You can always change it if you
want, but don’t live a moment longer without one. Watch what being hungry to
live that vision does to your ability to motivate yourself.
#3 – TELL YOURSELF A
TRUE LIE
Ø If it’s hard for you to imagine the potential in
yourself, then you might want to begin by expressing it as a fantasy. Think up
some stories about who you would like to be. Your subconscious mind doesn’t
know you’re fantasizing(it either receive pictures or doesn’t). Soon you will
begin to create the necessary blueprint(rangka tindakan) for stretching your
accomplishments. Without a picture of your highest self, you can’t live into
that self.
Ø Fake it till you make it. The lie will
become the truth.
#4 – KEEP YOUR EYES ON
THE PRIZE
Ø Most of us tend to lose our focus in life because
we’re perpetually worried about so many negative possibilities. We constantly
feel a kind of irritating psychic chaos because we keep trying to think of too
many things at once.
Ø But when we focus on what we want, it will come into
our life. When we focus on being happy and motivated person, that are who we
will be.
#5 – LEARN TO SWEAT IN
PEACE
Ø The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on
you. Or, as they say in the Navy Seals, the more you
sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.
Ø If you’ve got something hard to do and you’re hesitant
to do it, pick out something even harder and do that first.
#6 – SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE
Ø Creatively planning and combine your tasks.
Ø Do everything right on the spot. Don’t put anything
unnecessarily into your future. Do it now, so that the future is always wide
open. (Bob Koether-president of Infincom)
#7 – LOOK FOR THE LOST
GOLD
Ø In every circumstance, we can look for the gold, or
look for the filth. And what we look for, we find. The best starting point for
self-motivation is in what we choose to look for in what we see around us. Do
we see the opportunity everywhere?
Ø It is always our choice. Which world do we want to see
today? Opportunity is life’s gold.
#8 – PUSH ALL YOUR OWN
BUTTONS
Ø Make a note of everything that inspires you. That’s
your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal
motivation.
Ø Motivation doesn’t have to be accidental. For example,
you don’t have to wait for hours until a certain song comes on the radio that
picks up your spirits. You can control what songs you hear.
Ø You can begin programming yourself consciously to be
more and more focused and motivated. Get to know your
control panel and learn how to push your own buttons. The more you know
about how you operate, the easier it will be to motivate yourself.
#9 – BUILD A TRACK
RECORD
Ø It’s not what we do that makes us tired, it’s what we
don’t do. The tasks we don’t complete cause the most fatigue.
Ø The best way to change your belief system is to change
the truth about you. To believe that you are a good finisher, you must begin by
building a track record of finished tasks. Write
down on your notebook by making a point of setting small goals and finishing
them.
Ø Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and
start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do
whatever you want to do.
#10 – WELCOME THE
UNEXPECTED
Ø In reality, creativity has nothing to do with
originality. It has everything to do with being unexpected. You don’t have to be original to be creative.
Ø Look at Elvis Presley. People thought he was a true
original when he first came upon the scene. But he wasn’t. His versions of
songs, however were often direct copies from African-American rhythm and blues
singers. Although Elvis wasn’t original, he was creative. Because he was so
unexpected.
Ø If you’re willing to see yourself as creative, you
can begin to cultivate it in everything
you do. You can start coming up with all kinds of unexpected solutions to the
challenges that life throws at you.
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