Here are some "Keep it Simple Coaching" elements for motivating yourself to success:

1. Create a vision for something that matters to you, that matters enough for you to put your time, energy and resources toward making it happen.

2. Design a plan of action with broad goals and actions with a time schedule to guide you forward.

3. Design your resource and support team of people that can share your vision and are willing to support you in achieving it. (Often these are not family members or friends.)

4. Admit what you don’t know and ask for coaching from someone who has success. (You don’t know what you don’t know.)

5. Make a promise to yourself and to someone else about a result you are committed to achieving and state the “by when” time agreement. Then assess and report the action taken and the result.

6. Assess and evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of your plan in producing the intended results according to schedule.

7. Build in rewards for yourself and your team along the way. (All work and no play makes for a lot of suffering and martyring.)