May I please come out of the corner now? Discipline!
We discipline our children when they don't do as their told! How do I discipline myself? As a businessman I have had to deal with this before.
It all goes back to your WHY! IF your why is big enough then you will do what needs to be done.
Is your why visible? what I mean by that do you have pictures of what you want? Is it written down? have you created a list of goal's along with a plan of action that will get you to those goals? That's what I am in the process of doing now formulating a plan of action creating some goals and developing a plan for how and what I need to do daily, weekly, and monthly in order to achieve my goals!
There is a wealth of knowledge and help here at WA! Read other peoples profiles, and blogs. There are gold nuggets in all of it! In the profiles we can find people with similar backgrounds, people we think we would agree with on most subjects, People we would like to meet! Now that's not to say that the ones that have different beliefs are not good people, many will offer to help even if they have different ideals than you! And that is one of the strong points of WA people from all walks of life coming together and helping one another reach for success!
Keep your WHY close and read it, look at it as often as you can, Post it close to your computer so as you are working on this stuff you can keep it on your mind at the same time. I Read so many profiles here about people just wanting the time freedom to have more time with their family's, kid's or older parent's! That is a very worth while dream!
My parent's are 88 and 91 next month! and still in great health thank God! We put a new roof on their house in June and in August we took them up to new Mexico to our cabin there. They had a great time and it was a blessing to get to do that for them, but there is so much more I want to do! The thumb pic in this post is a pic of the morning sunrise from my bed in our New Mexico cabin! That is part of my why I want to build a business I can carry with me on a laptop and go anywhere in the world and still do my job from there!
So if you find yourself standing the corner more often that you like, rethink your WHY, go back and look at some more get some picture out or maybe you have not taken the time to write it out? Read it to yourself before going to sleep at night, and again when you get up in the morning!
I would love to hear from others comments on how you keep motivated?
Blessings to all James
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Yes, nothing like having a big WHY to keep motivated. AND yes, my big WHY is my daughter - it's about being able to spend time with her rather than working every moment at work, watching her grow up, getting to spend time with my hubby too and having that portable lifestyle. There is also something else only just coming to life for me - around having independence from others and something to call my own! I am working on figuring that out at present, because it's always been there - I just noticed it more recently!
I know what you mean by wanting to OWN it! It is nice to be able to look back at what you have done and say I did that!
Hi James
wow this is so inspiring! I love it! I am literally going to post my WHY on my wall today. We need to remind ourselves why we are doing what we are doing. Every single day!
Emily
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My motto has always been do what you like and like what you do.
it helps to keep one motivated.
I agree, if you do not like what you are doing you will not give a hundred percent, and then you know it and start to feel worse and it just snowballs from there! A downward spiral!
Thanks James