10 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

by Steve Chandler

George Patton meant when he said, “Death can be more exciting than life.”

Poet William Blake warned us about keeping our thoughts locked up until we die. “When thought is closed in caves,” he wrote, “then love will show its roots in deepest hell.”

Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life.

Denis Waitley calls “Someday Isle” in his book Psychology of Winning. We find ourselves saying, “Someday I’ll do this,” and “Someday I’ll do that.”

“People living deeply,” wrote poet and diarist Anaïs Nin, “have no fear of death.”

And as Bob Dylan has sung, “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.”

“What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”

Whenever I’m afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that’s even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

You can always stage a bigger battle than the one you have to face. Watch what it does to your motivation going into the real challenge.

It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.

Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives. That’s because we don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That’s your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do.