{"id":3198,"date":"2013-06-11T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T23:08:14","slug":"motivation-inspiration-and-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/motivation-inspiration-and-determination\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation, Inspiration, and Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you\u201d\u00a0 – Tony Dorsett<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Being self-motivated is critically important.\u00a0 Far too often people sit back waiting for someone else to give them a reason to get up and get going.\u00a0 If you want to make something of your life you absolutely have to become your own motivating factor!\u00a0 You have to be the one to take the initiative to make something happen!<\/p>\n

Some people are really good at this and they do it naturally with little effort at all.\u00a0 I , for one, have to put effort into making sure I am keeping myself motivated.\u00a0 One of the tricks that has always helped me is to surround myself with constant inspiration.\u00a0 I write messages on my mirror so I see them every morning, I hang quotes and sayings on the walls of my office, and I listen to motivational talks as I drive in my car.\u00a0 I have learned that the only way for me to stay constantly motivated is to surround myself with things that inspire me to be more and to do better and to try harder.\u00a0 When I do this I find that my mind stays more focused on getting things accomplished and I stay more upbeat and positive throughout my day.<\/p>\n

Setting goals for yourself each week is one of the best ways to stay motivated.\u00a0 Sit down on Sunday and make a list of all the things you want to get done that week.\u00a0 Then hang your list where you have to see it daily.\u00a0 Put the goals in your daily calendar as all day appointments that you can drag from day to day until you get them done that week.\u00a0 I love being able to look back at a week and see how many goals I was able to finish up.<\/p>\n

Determination may be the hardest step.\u00a0 It is impossible to stay motivated and positive if you don\u2019t have determination.\u00a0 Determination is what will get you through when days are tough.\u00a0 Determination is what gives you that extra energy to find a way past your hurdles.\u00a0 The best way I find to stay determined is to not allow my mind to even consider that my goals won\u2019t happen.\u00a0 The moment we let our mind formulate a plan B we have subconsciously given up on our plan A, so I stick with plan A and force myself to get it done.<\/p>\n

I suppose my message for today is this \u2013 when you want to accomplish something, be determined!\u00a0 Look for inspiration to keep you motivated.\u00a0 Tell everyone you know what your goal is so you can\u2019t back out.\u00a0 You can do anything you want to if you really set your mind to it and stay determined long enough to get it done.<\/p>\n

I will end with this thought:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to get up every morning with determination if you are going to go to bed with satisfaction.\u201d\u00a0 – George Lorimer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Determine to have a REMARKABLE day today!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you\u201d\u00a0 – Tony Dorsett Being self-motivated is critically important.\u00a0 Far too often people sit back waiting for someone else to give them a reason to get up and get going.\u00a0 If you want to make something of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,46,251,224,163,1174,1170,1171,164,249,41,67,571,76,629,439,64,630,53,153,1176,1175,27,112,149,1173,374,516,54,172,1172],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-daily-goals","tag-determination","tag-determine","tag-effort","tag-energy","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-focus","tag-goals","tag-inspiration","tag-inspire","tag-life","tag-motivate","tag-motivation","tag-positive","tag-remarkable","tag-satisfaction","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-success","tag-think","tag-think-big","tag-thoughts","tag-time-management","tag-try","tag-upbeat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}