Do you personalize your thoughts?
To be motivated, your thoughts should be more than just positive quotations and clichés. Your thoughts and ideas should be designed to motivate and inspire you.
Motivational thoughts should help you to take action. This isn’t about learning motivational quotes and positive clichés. They most certainly do have their place in shaping your attitude. But because we are all unique, what motivates us is also unique. We need to take what we know and make it our own thoughts- thoughts that in effect get us motivated in doing so that we can get going.
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one single acorn” - Emerson
This is a very powerful quote, it may help you realize that all your work is not in vain, but what if it doesn’t get you motivated to act, if it doesn’t excite you. Then you need to apply a little effort in making the idea your own. You have to make it a truly inspirational and motivational thought for YOU.
Make motivational thoughts of your own.
“Making it your own” means analyzing and experimenting with a good thought until you can find a way to use it in your own motivational arsenal. Imagine for a moment, that you are really having difficulty in deciding on pursuing a particular action within your community. And as you start playing around with the thought of “…a thousand forests…one acorn” You begin to see that your action could have a ripple effect within the community, bringing about enormous change. You then go on to explain to a friend, who is experiencing some issues with what he believes to be, his insignificant contribution to change, how you overcame a similar way of thinking.
This is how you personalize your own motivational thoughts. One day during an interview, you go on to explain how you dealt with the idea, that, whatever you did had no relevance and impact in the lives of others- and how this motivational thought got you revved up for action. So, the thoughts that work for you are the thoughts that you should be thinking.
Learn what motivates you
Learn how your mind works. I have great quotes, thoughts and sayings that pop into my mind during shower or exercise time- but, that’s all they are, thoughts- sharing them with somebody gets me excited. I am motivated in sharing these simple but powerful nuggets of wisdom with others. This is what motivates me to action, to get things done and to reach further. When I feel unmotivated to do something, and I share with my wife about an idea that I have, it’s not long before I am motivated and ready to go.
Be creative in your motivational thinking, if thinking about being a leader makes you excited, then it’s a great motivational thought for you. If you find that visualizing images are more motivating than mental affirmations, then use them. If having images of pristine beaches and great countryside vacations pinned up on your wall makes you get-up and go then use them. Someone might be saying to you that it will never work, the fact that you want to prove them wrong could be your motivation for proving them wrong and making it work.
There are many tasks that we find uninspiring and boring, when faced with completing them, use creative and motivational thinking, make it your own personal motivational thought, keep that thought in your mind to keep you motivated. Promise yourself a reward for completing them, a meal at your favourite restaurant, a walk on the beach or even a well deserved rest at home may be powerful motivators for you.
Motivational thoughts should go beyond quotes or positive thinking clichés. Your thoughts should be specifically designed to motivate you.
