Brian Tracy explains how to sustain willpower by focusing on positive outcomes, listing and prioritizing your top goals, and enlisting others to hold you accountable. He emphasizes that reasons are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Hello, I'm Brian Tracy, and today I want to talk to you about how to maintain your willpower to achieve your goals. It's been said that success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. If you want to achieve your goals, you must work hard, hard, hard, hard. There are no exceptions, but no one pushes themselves that hard or perspires that much without strong motivation. Therefore, whether you plan to start a book or write a business plan or improve your health, you must first find the motivation to succeed, the motivation to carry through until you are 100% complete on your task. The following tips will help you stay motivated for the long haul. Persevering and perspiring until you achieve your goals. First, focus on the positives. No one ever motivated themselves to achieve a goal they didn't care about. Thus, at the beginning of every endeavor, make a list of all the ways your goals will make a positive impact on your life and the life of others. If you're starting a business, think about how that company will increasingly save time and money for customers. When writing a book, consider all the people who will read it and the lessons they'll draw from it and how they'll use those lessons to improve their lives and the world. And if you seek better health, imagine how you will be able to live longer, enjoy your life more, and do a better job of providing for and spending time with your family. Making a list of positive quotations will motivate you in two major ways. First, by improving your mood, they help you avoid the psychological and emotional factors that lead to procrastination. You're bound to get more work done when you feel good, especially if those positive feelings are tied to the work you're doing. The earlier and more often you think of positive outcomes, the more productive you'll be. Second, listing positives shows you the full stakes of success. It's easy enough to ignore your goals if you have a vague idea of why you set them. But when you consider specifically how your endeavors will improve your and other lives, you'll have a clear sense of why they are valuable. Thus, both for your sake and those of your loved ones, you will press forward no matter what happens. Next, list and organize your goals. No matter how positive you're feeling about your objectives, if you have a lot of them, it may still be hard to get started. Whenever you're feeling swamped by too many goals or too many responsibilities, make a list of all the different things you want to achieve and then organize the list. There's a good chance that many of your goals are closely related to each other and that achieving one will bring you closer to accomplishing another. You can therefore combine the two into a single goal. This brings down the total number of things you need to achieve, making the list less daunting and easier to start on. Once you've fully consolidated the list, rank each goal by its order of importance. This lets you know which items you can work on first and which ones to save for later. You therefore won't feel overwhelmed by the need to accomplish so many things at once. After setting priorities, take a look at any goal that ranks near the bottom. Consider eliminating some of these goals, especially if they will not have as important an impact as the others. This way you can focus your time and energy on achieving the most important objectives as effectively as possible. Many people insist on having only three goals in any area of life, and they keep whittling them down until there's only three goals. And then they organize those goals in order of importance. Which is most important, which is second most important, which is third? And then they start on number one, and they work 100% of the time on number one until it's complete. The initial list doesn't have to be definitive, and you can always go back and change it over time, but having a list helps you to keep track of your objectives and to accomplish them systematically, one at a time. Finally, remember that motivation is never a purely personal matter. Even if the goals we mentioned are for you in particular, they will impact other people, so you should enlist those people to help you stay on task. Relatives want you to do well for your own sake, but they're likely to benefit if you become healthier, wealthier, or more successful. You should therefore let your closest family members know about what you're trying to accomplish and invite them to intervene to give you ideas and advice if ever you get distracted. If your goals relate to your career, they will almost certainly impact your co workers. Explain to them why they have a stake in your success and ask for their support and offer to help them on their goals as well. Use your goals to become closer with your friends. If you're trying to be healthier, ask your friends to work out with you. Likewise, if you're starting a business, bring in friends with relevant experience as employees or consultants, or just guides. This gets them by your side for the entire process. Peers provide a consistent, lasting source of motivation. As long as you trust them to look out for your best interests, they will push you and guide you toward accomplishing even your most difficult goals. Before we wrap up. I'd like to leave you with a thought to share with your friends and followers. The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become. We say that reasons are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The more reasons you have, the more this fuel will burn and the more motivated you will be. Now I'd like to hear from you. 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