The lack of motivation can to cancer that can build apathy, pessimism, cynicism, and can stifle energy stunting a company's growth and just like cancer if not treated can destroy the organization. Managers have the reasonability to examine every single individual and also the places they need to have improvement, apply motivational theories in their behavior modification plan. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus.
I found a book of Steve Chandler. Steve is a sales trainer and a keynote and convention speaker who lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. He has brought his workshops and seminars to over 400 different companies including Motorola, Texas Instruments, IBM and Intel. His previous bestselling motivational books include 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Reinventing Yourself, 50 Ways to Create Great Relationships, and 17 Lies that are Holding You Back and the Truth That Will Set You Free.
Check most important ways to motivate yourself:
1. Get on your deathbed
2. Stay hungry
3. Tell yourself a true lie
4. Keep your eyes on the prize
5. Learn to sweat in peace
6. Simplify your life
7. Look for the lost gold
8. Push all your own buttons
9. Build a track record
10. Welcome the unexpected
11. Find your master key
12. Put your library on wheels
13. Definitely plan your work
14. Bounce your thoughts
15. Light your lazy dynamite
16. Choose the happy few
17. Learn to play a role
18. Don't just do something...sit there
19. Use your brain chemicals
20. Leave high school forever
21. Learn to lose your cool
22. Kill your television
23. Break out of your soul cage
24. Run your own plays
25. Find your inner Einstein
26. Run toward your fear
27. Create the way you relate
28. Try interactive listening
29. Embrace your willpower
30. Perform your little rituals
31. Find a place to come from
32. Be your own disciple
33. Turn into a word processor
34. Program your biocomputer
35. Open your present
36. Be a good detective
37. Make a relation-shift
38. Learn to come from behind
39. Come to your own rescue
40. Find your soul purpose
41. Get up on the right side
42. Let your whole brain play
43. Get your stars out
44. Just make everything up
45. Put on your game face
46. Discover active relaxation
47. Make today a masterpiece
48. Enjoy all your problems
49. Remind your mind
50. Get down and get small
51. Advertise to yourself
52. Think outside the box
53. Keep thinking, keep thinking
54. Put on a good debate
55. Make trouble work for you
56. Storm your own brain
57. Keep changing your voice
58. Embrace the new frontier
59. Upgrade your old habits
60. Paint your masterpiece today
61. Swim laps underwater
62. Bring on a good coach
63. Try to sell your home
64. Get your soul to talk
65. Promise the moon
66. Make somebody's day
67. Play the circle game
68. Get up a game
69. Turn your mother down
70. Face the sun
71. Travel deep inside
72. Go to war
73. Use the 5% solution
74. Do something badly
75. Learn visioneering
76. Lighten things up
77. Serve and grow rich
78. Make a list of your life
79. Set a specific power goal
80. Change yourself first
81. Pin your life down
82. Take no for a question
83. Take the road to somewhere
84. Go on a news fast
85. Replace worry with action
86. Run with the thinkers
87. Put more enjoyment in
88. Keep walking
89. Read more mysteries
90. Think your way up
91. Exploit your weakness
92. Try becoming the problem
93. Enlarge your objective
94. Give yourself flying lessons
95. Hold your vision accountable
96. Build your power base
97. Connect truth to beauty
98. Read yourself a story
99. Laugh for no reason
100. Walk with love and death
I especially like 4. Keep your eyes on the prize: There was an interesting motivational talk on this subject given by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson to his football players before the 1993 Super Bowl: "I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were going to walk that two-by-four, But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today is the team that will win this game."
Johnson told his team not to be distracted by the crowd, the media, or the possibility of losing, but to focus on each play of the game itself just as if it were a good practice session. The Cowboys won the game 52-17. There's a point to that story that goes way beyond football. Most of us tend to lose our focus in life because we're perpetually worried about so many negative possibilities. Rather than focusing on the two-by-four, we worry about all the ramifications of falling. Rather than focusing on our goals, we are distracted by our worries and fears.
But when you focus on what you want, it will come into your life. When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who you will be.
References
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
17 Lies that are Holding You Back and the Truth That Will Set You Free
Summary
Aristotle also knew how to create a self through movement. He once said this: "Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just: By doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave." What do you think about these ways of motivation?
