Left on our own without any outside stimulation, coaching or guidance, we can readily find ourselves feeling glum, undirected, and without a clear purpose. Just imagine how many mornings you wake up ready and excited to leap into you day.

So how do we take ourselves from the mundane, “I don’t want to day,” to being a conscious, focused, in-action and results oriented person. First, notice that seldom do you wake up energized and motivated. Second, recognize that we all need a little help from our friends and can not do it all alone. And third, identify the particular activities and resources that stimulate you to think positively, be results-oriented rather than engaging in petty, addictive, “stinking thinking” that lives in reasons rather than results.

Motivate yourself with:
1. Motivational reading, audio conversations, quotes, and visual cues.

2. Create vision posters or a simple statement or picture that reminds you of your target and place them in a prominent place that you will see every day. (Your bathroom is a wonderful place for listening to messages and seeing visuals that give continual subliminal messages to your brain.)

3. Say “No” to negativity in your own thoughts and speaking as well as that of others. Refuse the negative language and separate yourself from people who take you down the path of the “reasons why” something can’t work. Notice who you have in your energy field. Remember success breeds success.

4. Be interested and empowering of others dreams and they will want to support you and yours.

5. Keep your word with yourself and others will know you as a person they can trust.

6. Acknowledge and celebrate your accomplishments each day before you jump to the “what’s next.”

7. Design your own declaration of who you are and speak it often every day. What you believe and think about becomes reality.

8. Laugh and relax. All work and no freedom to play makes for a driven, dry and humorless