Motivation is a funny thing. It comes in small spurts. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be ultra-motivated when you have a new idea, or when you come up with a solution to a problem. The difference between normal people and ultra-successful people is that the most successful people find ways to stay motivated all the time.
Sometime we hit brick walls. Impediments to progress. Sometimes the world is out to get us. So what do you do to stay motivated? Here are a few tips from John over at Pickthebrain.
- Set fantastic longterm goals: How are you going to make $10 million dollars by the time you’re 60 if you don’t set your sights even higher? Don’t be afraid to shoot for the stars. Even if you only get 10% of the way there, $1 million is still a lot more than most people ever make. Set your goals high, and the creative juices start flowing. Your mind will come up with some way to get there.
- Go easy on yourself: Don’t beat yourself up for failing. Each failure is one step closer to success.
- Find friends along the way: If you’ve read Napoleon Hill, you know about the Mastermind. No one is perfect at everything. Surround yourself with the smartest people you know, and the sum becomes greater than its parts.
- Create self-reinforcing habits: Every success makes the next one a little easier.
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I enjoyed reading your blog today, especially your post “Stay motivated even when you hit a brick wall,” and I thought that you might be interested to learn that a new edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic book “Think and Grow Rich” has been published.
Its title is “Think and Grow Rich!” (subtitled) “The Original Version, Restored and Revised.” I am the editor/annotator of this new 416-page edition, which is really an homage to Dr. Hill. (For several years I was the editor-in-chief of “Think & Grow Rich Newsletter.”)
What I have done is this: to restore Dr. Hill’s book to its original manuscript content (it was first published in 1937, but was abridged in 1960), annotate it with more than 50 pages of endnotes (most of the persons and events he discusses are generally unknown to readers today), index it thoroughly, add an appendix with a wealth of additional information about Dr. Hill and his work, and revise the book in ways to help remove certain “impediments” to reading the book today (language that today would be considered obsolete, sexist or racist). None of these things had previously been done with TGR.
If you would like to learn a little more about this project, a quick visit to http://www.tgr-restored-revised.com will give you some details. The “Editor’s Foreword” provides more complete information, and the “Testimonials” page will demonstrate how well-received this new book is around the world.
Here is the book’s Amazon.com page…
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-Restored/dp/1593302002/
The book is available on all the Amazon websites and most other online sellers (it is now the No. 1 best-selling version of TGR on Amazon), it can be ordered by any bookstore, and it will soon be appearing in bookstores everywhere.
Our edition of TGR! is superior in every way to other versions on the market. It is a trade paperback, not a pocket-size mass market paperback. It is unabridged. It is 416 pages versus 230+ (depending on the edition). It looks better, feels better, reads better than any other version. It is fast becoming the “version of choice” among Napoleon Hill devotees and other students of success and high achievement.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Ross Cornwell, Editor
Wow. Looks great Ross. TGR and Rich Dad, Poor Dad are the two book that really turned my life around and got me motivated to build “my empire”
Good luck with sales!
Joe
Being motivated comes within. It all starts with YOU.