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Motivation Column

"What Is Success"
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
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"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." (Henry J. Kaiser)

"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." (Robert Schuller)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." (Helen Keller)
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Ten Tips for Motivating Yourself
(Adapted from Emotional Intelligence at Work - Hendrie Websinger)

Four Sources of Motivation:

Yourself (your thoughts, arousal, behaviors)
Support friends, family, colleagues An Emotional Mentor (Real or fictitious person)
Your Environment (the air, light, sounds, and surrounding messages)
Tips for using the different sources of motivation

Yourself

Become a Positive Thinker. Following are techniques that you can follow to become a positive thinker:

Use Motivational Self-Statements (example, "I can get done all that I have to do today"; "I can stick with it until it is successfully accomplished.")
Play Mental Games (Example, pretend it is the first day of a new job and approach the task that you were avoiding as if this really were your first day on the job).
Focus your thoughts and block off some time for doing intense work.
Use Mental Imagery (Relax, imagine yourself struggling with a task, imagine yourself regaining composure, imagine yourself succeeding and then imagine yourself feeling good).
Use Productive Self-Criticism.
Give yourself meaningful goals.
Move around to generate energy.
Relax
Break work down into small tasks.
Monitor your behavior to examine how it affects your motivation.

Supportive Friends, Family, and Colleagues

Develop mutually motivational relationships with friends and colleagues. Three basic characteristics of a motivational relationship are trust, suitability and availability.
Tell your friends what you are feeling.
Reciprocate.

Emotional Mentors

Choose as your mentor an individual who is extraordinarily motivating for you.
Choose a motivational moment in that person's life, and relive it often.
Call upon your mentor often.

Your Environment

Make it as healthy and helpful as possible.
Breathe clean air.
Tune in helpful sounds; tune out hindering sounds.
Use light advantageously.
Surround yourself with motivationally supportive objects.
Organize your workspace so it works for you rather than against you.

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Top 7 Ways To Hold On To Your Dreams

Have you given up on your dreams? Would you like to get them back? Many of us give up on our dreams. Often our dreams slip away without our even realizing it. Our dreams are who we are. They give us an incentive to get out of bed everyday. They are the reason we were born, and our destiny to fulfill while we are here. They are within your grasp. And yes, they can come true. It's up to you to decide if they will.

What can you do if you've given up on your dreams? Follow these easy steps:

Remember you are worth it.
You deserve to live your dreams. Recognizing this is the hardest and most necessary step. Most of us think that only other people get to live their dreams. Only other people are lucky enough, not us. We think we don't deserve it but the only thing these thoughts do is keep us from moving forward.

Remember that your dreams are important.
Once you know how important living your dreams is to your health and mental well being, then you can bring them dreams back into your life. The only way to really live your dreams is to make them a priority. Without this focus they cannot become a reality.

Remember that you have dreams.
Maybe you are thinking "I don't remember what my dreams were," or "I don't have a dream." You know what they are, you really do. Everyone has a dream, we just push them down so we don't have to do anything about them. Let them surface again so you can fulfill them.

Remember that fear is part of the process.
There are times when you will wonder if you have what it takes to fulfill your dreams. Fear is a normal part of human nature. Accept that fear will occur during this process that you don't need to worry about it. The only way past fear is through it and not around it. You can do it!

Remember that you cannot live your dreams alone.
Part of living your dreams is having someone to share them with. Do you ask for help, or do you do everything on your own? I bet there are people out there who want to contribute and help you along the way but you won't let them. Ask for support and stop being so stubborn. Do you really want to live your dreams by yourself?

Remember that action is what propels you forward.
Your life is moving forward whether you are working toward your dreams or not. So, wouldn't it be better to do one thing each day that will get you closer to your dreams? It could be as simple as making a phone call, sending an email, or doing some research on the Internet. Dreams are attained through the little steps until, one day, you discover that you are living your dreams. Why not move yourself forward today?

Remember -- don't give up.
Perseverance always wins out in the end. You can't get to the finish line unless you play the game and hanging tough through the tough times is what gets you to the goal. So, don't give up!

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A little more

When you've done what needs to be done, go ahead and do a little more. When you've gotten some momentum going, make good use of it.
By itself, a tiny effort won't be very effective. Yet when it is added on at the end of another effort, it can make a world of positive difference.

Those who stop when they've done what needs to be done will usually manage to just get by. Those who keep going just a little bit longer end up being vastly more successful.

The difference between mediocrity and astounding success isn't really that much. And yet, though the difference is small, it is crucial.

You can quit when you break even, and you'll manage to stay just where you are. Or you can add a little extra effort, and move steadily ahead each time.

Once you're moving forward, you have momentum on your side. Go a little past the goal, and the rewards will grow with every effort.

-- Ralph Marston

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"There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe. " H. G. Wells, English novelist & historian (b. 1866)
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"I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness/ And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men/ They all shook their heads and gave me a smile/ As though I were trying to fool with them/ And then one Sunday afternoon I just wandered out, along the Des Plaines River/ And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees/ With their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordian." - Carl Sandburg

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An Average Person
by: Brian Tracy

What does it take to succeed on a big scale?

A tremendous god-given talent? Inherited wealth? A decade of postgraduate education? Connections with the top people in your field?

Fortunately for most of us, what it takes is something very simple and accessible: clear, written goals.

A study of Harvard graduates found that after 20 years, the three percent of them who had written goals achieved more financially than the other 97% combined!

"An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can oustrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals."

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Keep Your Goals in Sight
by: Author Unknown,
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul

When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.

Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.

On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support boats. Sharks cruised toward her lone figure, only to be driven away by rifle shots. Against the frigid grip of the sea, she struggled on - hour after hour - while millions watched on national television.

Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to quit. She never had . . . until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.

Still thawing her chilled body several hours later, she told a reporter, "Look, I'm not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I might have made it." It was not fatigue or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was unable to see her goal.

Two months later, she tried again. This time, despite the same dense fog, she swam with her faith intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, eclipsing the men's record by two hours!

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Become What You Want to Be
by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R., The Sower's Seeds

Let me tell you about a little girl who was born into a very poor family in a shack in the Backwoods of Tennessee. She was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail. Her survival was doubtful. When she was four years old she had double pneumonia and scarlet fever - a deadly combination that left her with a paralyzed and useless left leg. She had to wear an iron leg brace. Yet she was fortunate in having a mother who encouraged her.

Well, this mother told her little girl, who was very bright, that despite the brace and leg, she could do whatever she wanted to do with her life. She told her that all she needed to do was to have faith, persistence, courage and and indomitable spirit.

So at nine years of age, the little girl removed the leg brace, and she took the step the doctors told her she would never take normally. In four years, she developed a rhytmic stride, which was a medical wonder. Then this girl got the notion, the incredible notion, that she would like to be the world's greatest woman runner. Now, what could she mean - be a runner with a leg like that?

At age 13, she entered a race. She came in last - way, way last. She entered every race in high school, and in every race she came in last. Everyone begged her quit! However, one day, she came in next to last. And then there came a day when she won a rece. From then on, Wilma Rudolph won every race that she entered.

Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a coach named Ed Temple. Coach Temple saw the indomitable spirit of the girl, that she was a believer and that she had great natural talent. He trained her so well that she went to the Olympic Games.

There she was pitted against the greatest woman runner of the day, a German girl named Jutta Heine. Nobody had ever beaten Jutta. But in the 100-meter dash, Wilma Rudolph won. She beat Jutta again in the 200-meters. Now Wilma had two Olimpic gold medals.

Finally came the 400-meter relay. It would be Wilma against Jutta once again. The first two runners on Wilma's team made perfect handoffs with the baton. But when the third runner handed the baton to Wilma, she was so excited she dropped it, and Wilma saw Jutta taking off down the track. It was impossible that anybody could catch this fleet and nimble girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rudolph had earned three Olympic gold medals.

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The "Why" of Love
by: Neil Eskelin, Neil Eskelin's Jump Start

Here's a message that needs to be drilled into the hearts and minds of every mom and dad: You don't love your kids because of what they do, but because of who they are.

Simply rewarding children with affection because of their accomplishments is like a circus trainer giving a dog some food every time he jumps through a hoop. The dog isn't loved for himself, but for his actions.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the popular talk show host, has a new book for children titled, "Why Do You Love Me?" Part of the story includes a mother explaining to her son that it is not what he does that makes her love him -- she loves him because he is unique and because he is her son.

You don't show affection simply because a child is good at karate or gymnastics. Every mom, dad and grandparent needs to memorize the words of a long-time popular song:
"I love you most of all because you're you."

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