Achieve Success

Improve your life – Know what to do!

According to Dictionary.com, motivation is the act or an instance of motivating. It is the state condition of being motivated. Or, something that motivates; inducement; incentive.

Never underestimate motivation!

So how does motivation relate to how we achieve success?

Well, motivation helps people who know what they should do to do it.

In order to achieve success, you have to know what to do.  The question is, what do you do?

In our goal setting program, “The Success and Opportunity Achievement Track” we discuss preparing your area of success all the way through defining a goal, writing and down, and eventually taking the steps to achieve it – and achieve success!

The process is simple. It is not easy – but it is simple. You need to know what to do.

What are the skills needed to attain your goal once you identify it? If you do not have the skills, what else do you need to learn in order to achieve success in attaining your goals?

Now that you know what you need to do in order to achieve success, there is only one thing left to do – take action, work to achieve it, which basically means – make a commitment!

Motivation helps people who know what commitment they should make and they make it!

Once you know what it takes to identify the skills and the map you need to follow to attain your goals, you need to make a commitment to it!

We like to impress upon goal-setters turned to goal-getters, that you need to commit to do something every single day to achieve your goal! This is the good habit you need to create while breaking all the bad habits that keep you from motivation.

Being active is one thing, but as John Wooden says, “Never mistake activity for achievement.” Activity, every day, is a good habit. But that good habit should be a commitment to be active in to do something every day to attain your goals! This is, for the most part, the only fast track to achieve success.

People want instant gratification, they want to bypass the hard work required in order to achieve success. Unfortunately, there is no way to jump from where you are and all of a sudden achieve success. Hard work and persistence is the only way. The commitment you know you have to make has to be made, and that commitment means activity every day to attain your goals!

Motivation helps people who know what habit they should break, to break it!

What gets in the way of success? If you want to achieve success this is the first thing you need to do – create good habits and break the bad habits.

New Year’s Resolution’s are filled with new habits people want to attain. The unfortunate part is, the breaking of bad habits is not part of their New Year’s Resolution! As you start one habit, another needs to go. This is why New Year’s Resolutions never are attained – because new habits are trying to fit in with the old.

Motivation helps people to break bad habits because in order to achieve success, new, good habits need to be formed!

Finally, the path that you need to take – well, despite the obstacles and numerous detours and breaks along the way, you need to stick to the plan!

Motivation helps people who know what path they should take to take it!

From defining your goals, making a commitment, and turning away bad habits in order to add good habits to your life, this leads to maintain or stay the course. Motivation helps people take the commitment and good habits in order to achieve success and use that to never give up!

Don’t give up! (Improve your life – Don’t Give up!)

Don’t quit!

Stay the course.

Motivation is key to self-improvement! Motivation, will lead to happiness. (Improve your life! – What motivates you?)

Motivation will lead you to what you need to do to attain success. It will help you make a commitment. It leads you to create the habits you need to reach your goals. And, to wrap it all up, motivation leads you on the right path to attain success – you just need to take it!

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Improve your life

Learn from Sports
Sportsmanship Wins every time

First, thank you for visiting our blog!

I was so inspired this winter Olympics. All the athletes and their personal success stories were to me, the biggest part of the Olympics! From Nodar Kumaritashvili death on Opening Day, to the Canadian’s incredibly tough road to the gold medal game and eventually winning it in overtime. There are so many obvious and yes, hidden stories of personal success for each and every athlete participating in the olympic games.

If you read Orlando’s “Self Improvement and Motivation – Inspired by Challenges” he revealed the touching story of Joanne Rochette and here mother’s death days before she skated for the Bronze Medal in the Olympics! I, like Orlando, cheer USA all the way, but I could not help but cheer and root for Joanne Rochette’s personal success and her commitment to her goals. This is perseverence at its very best!

Other stories of personal success are all over the place from these past Winter Olympic Games. The USA Bobsled team led by Steven Holcomb, a man who was ‘this close’ to growing blind, won the Gold medal after 60+ years of gold medal drought!

JR Celski, who skated for the US in short track won two medals after recovering from a gruesome injury where he cut his thigh with his own skate in a race – he was never supposed to race at this level of competition again!

And how about those Canadians who lost against the USA in hockey during the preliminaries and had am incrediblly long road to just get into the gold medal game. They had the whole weight of their country, the host country, on them! And they persevered – even in overtime, to win gold.

But don’t seel the American’s short. They battled, and did not give up, waiting till the last 24 seconds in regulation to tie the game and send it into overtime. They could have sat back and let the Canadians win. They could have given up like so many fans already did. But they did not. And just like the Canadians, had their backs against the wall and sent the game into overtime. The Canadians, my hats off to them, had their backs against the wall for seven days – and still, managed, ever so desperately, to win gold.

We can learn from these atheletes. This past 17 days of Olympics was a true lesson on how to improve your life. These athletes had personal obstacles, yet were at the top of the mountain proving to only themselves that they can be the best in the world. They were at the starting line proving that they ’still’ can skate despite a career ending injury. And they were alone, center stage, skating with the weight of their mother’s death still fresh in their minds and still persevered to win a medal!

WOW!

I mean – WOW!

So, why is it that we give up so fast on something like attaining a simple goal that can change our lives and improve our life when these atheletes do not give up – and all they get is a little piece of medal? You think fame and fortune drive these athletes? What fame and fortune will come for Steven Holcomb? Or from the gold medals given for curling or the Nordic comibined – do you even know what that is?

This is what is attained: They set a goal. They worked hard. They had obstacles. Injuries, deaths, financial, critisism, a TON of failures. They did not give up on their goals. Then – they went out and achieved them!

Same goes for life. Make life a sport. Learn from it. Why? Because you will always win – sportsmanship will always win – despite the failures! Improve your life – Don’t give up! As I shared in that post.

InspiredBySteve’s Blog identified three questions to think about:

How do you apply sportsmanship on how to improve your life?

• What can we learn from these athletes?
• What can we do to get closer to being the best we can be?
• What can we do to inspire others to reach for their greatest performances?

Ask yourself these questions on how to improve your life based on sportsmanship. Visit InspiredBySteve’s blog for more great insight on self improvement and motivation. For personal success in sports like baseball, here are some movies to get you into the baseball spirit – “Personal Success – Get into the spirit of baseball”

To your success,

Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and The Createyourmind Team

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Self Improvement and Motivation That Works

Do you talk theories or action?

These simple “How To” Steps will blast your Self Improvement and Motivation into orbit!

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We have been revisiting our self improvement and motivation material because too often we do a lot of talking and not enough doing.  You know the kind of people I am talking about right?  They have every book in the world and they are constantly sharing with you their words of wisdom that just grind on your nerves.  It’s not because what they are saying isn’t true or great to hear it’s because you know despite all the self improvement and motivation material this person has consumed they have never once in their life applied it.  They never take any risks or have ever done anything more than just show up for work day in and day out.

What really gets us fired up about these folks is that they give you eloquent words from Jim Rohn then turn around and complain that they don’t make enough money or can’t seem to get out of their dead end job.  Ugh!

Thanks to the wonderful self improvement and motivation books and seminars that we have consumed we actual go and apply it to our lives.  Granted, it hasn’t been all puppy dogs and ice cream.  Hardly!  It’s been quite a struggle in fact.  Though, we know it’s working because we are still at it and showing strides of improvement day in and day out.  So when we talk about self improvement and motivation in our podcasts and in our post it’s because we are living it.

The following self improvement and motivation podcasts have been given to us by the experts and are tested day in and day out by us:

1. Self Improvement and Motivation : Ideas from above.  This is a “How To” do what successful and imaginative people do to get those super amazing ideas.  We revealed 2 steps that will get you generating more ideas than ever before in just 5 minutes a day.
2. Self Improvement and Motivation: Want to Stop Worrying? We show you how to bust through your worries fast and with confidence.  Probably the most important of our steps.
3. Self Improvement and Motivation:  Do you receive? This is a “How To” get more of what you really want in life.  Surprisingly it only takes two words?  Go find out.
4. Self Improvement and Motivation: What do you think about? We wrap our series with a bonus tip used by all of the great thinkers of our time.

There you have it.  If you take the steps we covered on the Self Improvement and Motivation Recap coupled with those covered in our shows above you will catapult yourself into a stratosphere that you didn’t even think possible.  What we cover is not theory they are real honest to goodness action steps that you can accomplish in 20 minutes a day.  Don’t believe us?  Go see for yourself!

I dare you to take our advice and fail.  Then you can post your comments on your success story here.  Got something to add please let us in on it here or you can email us at oramos@createyourmind.com or gmagas@createyourmind.com

To your success,

Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and The Createyourmind Team

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Improve your Life

Validation leads to Self-Improvement!

Good morning! Yes, it is a great morning! And guess what: whether you are reading this post in the morning, or during your lunch, or even right before bed, I have to tell you something…

You are Awesome!!!

Yes, you are. Why? Well, if you are visiting CreateYourMind.com there is a reason.

I’m not trying to flatter you. I hate flattery. I am letting you know how I feel about people I can’t see that visit CreateYourMind.com.

Why?

You are looking for something: whether it is self improvement, self awareness, a goal setting program, something and or anything! You want more from life than what you are getting from it now. Right?

And THAT… IS… AWESOME!

I was you! And I ran into my CreateYourMind.com partner, Orlando, and my life changed completely! Why? Because I was looking for something better from life and so was he. Next thing you know, we want people to ‘run into’ us like we ran into each other and strive for self improvement and motivation!

Look, Orlando and I track page views, – we know that people from all over the country, and different corners of the world, are finding CreateYourMind.com and its not because they want sports information, or how to PhotoRead, or even tips on photography. They are coming to CreateYourMind.com because they are looking for something that I was looking for a year ago.

Improve your life! We want to help! We want to inspire you! We want to help you succeed! YOU CAN DO IT!

And you know what, reading this post could be the first step to the rest of your life!

Yes, improve your life! Improve it by taking the first step to self-improvement. Take the first step in your life by realizing that Orlando and I validate the failures you may have or will experience! And if you are here because you are about to give up – DON’T GIVE UP!

Seriously – “Improve your life – Don’t Give up!” as I discussed in that post!

The thing is, if you are here, if you are reading this post, if you are searching for something to help you get more out of life than you are now, well – that is awesome!

You are awesome!

I wish you can hear me saying that to you! And maybe someday soon you will! But for now, here’s a YouTube video that will inspire you, it will change your life, and it will validate that you are a great person who, sometimes needs to hear three simple words of validation.

You are awesome!

Watch the YouTube video, let us know what you think and spread the word. Just like you, me and Orlando, sometimes, we just need someone to say we are awesome too!

Link to YouTube: “Validation”

Improve your life! We know you can do it. I mean, you’re here right? That just means you are one day closer to a great new life!

Learn how to change the lives of 3,650 people a day in a related post: “Validation for Self-Improvement“

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Self Improvement and Motivation

Don’t start another day without learning this!

Read on to find the secrets to a great day every day!

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We have been filling our blog and the minds of readers for just over three quarters of year.  We thought it would be awesome to do a self improvement and motivation round up!  We have been reporting on the best and most simple tricks and techniques to having a great day every day and thought it time to catch our breath and review.  These secrets are a direct result of not only what we have learned in the countless books we have read and the tons of seminars we have attended (not to mention the thousands of dollars invested in our minds); it’s also a product of our experiences….some success and a bunch of failures….mostly failures J.

We thought that most of the self improvement and motivation material were too complicated.  Glenn loves the book 7 Habits of Highly Successful People but have you ever tried to read it?  You need a PHD just to get to the good parts about the habits.  Have you ever paid a ton of money for a goals program only to find out that the real goal was to finish the workbook?  You didn’t achieve one of the goals on your list because all your time was spent filling out a gigantic questionnaire.  That was an expensive lesson.

We wanted to take all the great self improvement and motivation stuff we have read and give it to you here for free.  Now let’s take a stroll down memory lane to see what we have covered:

1. Self Improvement and Motivation: If Mr. Opportunity knocked what would you say? We began the Success and Opportunity Readiness Track and covered the most important thing to do every day .
2. Self Improvement and Motivation: More free steps revealed! – Our Success and Opportunity Readiness Track was in full swing as we discussed Accountability and Keeping Up With the Jones’s.
3. Self Improvement and Motivation Celebration and Shocking Revelation – We celebrated our milestone podcast and Orlando revealed a shocking revelation.
4. Self Improvement and Motivation: Take Ownership of Your Attitude – We reveal simple steps on maintaining an attitude of gratitude and starting You, inc.!
5. Self Improvement and Motivation: Clean out the dirty water! – Learn how to improve your day in just 15 minutes.

Look at that self improvement and motivation list.  This is just the beginning.  On our next post we will cover more of our golden oldies.  If you only followed the material we covered on these five steps you will get more out of your day and have a wonderful time doing it.

Thanks for reading our blog.

To your success,

Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and the Createyourmind Team

P.S.  If you have any great memories or any comments please post them or send us an email at oramos@createyourmind.com or gmagas@createyourmind.com.  We respond to all of them personally.

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Improve Your Life

Don’t Give Up!

Are you stuck in a rut? Are you feeling defeated and down? Have you tried and failed, tried and failed again, and have come to the conclusion that you should just quit? Well, welcome to the club.

Every once in a while I feel defeated.Yes, I’m human and I’m not always “up and at em” or “up and at them” and positive as some people may think. For the past month it could have been easy to stay in bed late and lay there depressed because my income level is not where I want it to be, even though I know it takes time and hard work. Life is tough. For everyone. But how you handle life’s situations is how you determine how to improve your life. And once you quit on one thing it is easy to quit on another, and another. And my philosophy is to never give up.

Life is hard. When you strive to improve your life you will find it even harder! And I’ll be honest, I hear people all the time, people close to me, people related to me, as well as people I don’t know complain about how hard things are. They constantly ‘wish’ for more, they constantly ‘want’ more, and they complain about not having whatever it is they want. Then when they try to accomplish a goal and find difficulty in it, they quit!

Yet they do not take the steps to improve their life – it is almost as if they have given up before they even try.

Snap out of it! People have it worse than you. They have bigger obstacles to hurdle, and they have larger problems than a credit card bill, or not having money to buy an expensive car that they really want, or not being able to buy a bigger house, or even having a job that pays more than what they think they deserve! People find it harder to gather the motivation it takes to get more out of life but the are grateful for everything they have! Yes, they have it harder than we do! And yet they are telling you to improve your life!

Sometimes in life you fall. And you don’t find the strength to get back up. But don’t give up. Keep on failing, but keep on trying again!

Take, Nick Vujicic for example. It only matters how you finish. And how to finish strong. Get back up. And don’t give up!

Grab some tissue paper. If you need some inspiration watch this video. But please- please do not just watch it. Let it inspire you and motivate you to do something to improve your life! It will lead to hapiness which is a great motivator to keep on trying as I wrote about here: “Improve your life – What is happiness?”

Nick Vujicic is an inspiration. Enjoy this video and make it a part of you. It will affect you. Dwell on it, and then, do something to improve your life – don’t give up!

Did you enjoy it? So what is it in your life that has knocked you down and you feel like giving up? Well, Nick Vujicic has it harder than you and guess what. He gets up. Every single day. If he can do it. You can too!

Visit Nick’s website, “LifeWithoutLimbs.org“

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What is Happiness?

Warren Davies, of GenerallyThinking.com, put together a great article on the definition of happiness. Well, its not really ‘happiness defined’ but what drives our happiness.  Here at CYM, we dive right into self improvement and motivation in order to improve your life! Well, happiness is a great motivator to improve your life!

In a previous post here at CYM I discussed motivation and what motivates you. Big rewards? Sometimes. But the biggest motivator – doing something you want to do. Read that here: “Motivation – What Motivates you”

In this post I’d like to address happiness. And yes, it is a big motivator. If you are doing what you want, generally speaking, you are happy right? We can all agree with that. But what creates your happiness as it is directly related to improve your life?

Here is Warren Davies’ formula on Happiness:

“The Happiness Formula

What your instincts tell you about how to be happier is probably wrong. Most people try to change their happiness by changing their circumstances. The logic is, by changing their life situation to one they are happier with – more money, better house, different gender, whatever – they’ll become happier because they like the new situation more.

This idea is basically misguided, although true to an extent. The happiness you experience comes from three sources; your genetics, your life circumstances, and your intentional activities, split like this: Happiness = Genetic Set Point + Life Circumstances + Intentional Activities”

Read his article here: How to be Happier – 10 Scientifically Supported Ideas

Warren Davies shares 10 scientifically supported ideas that make ‘us’ happy

I’d like to focus on 5 of his 10 because we discuss them in our CYM Podcasts and it directly relates to how to improve your life!

1. Change your Thinking
2. Meditation
3. Goal Setting
4. Discover your strengths
5. Gratitude

The first one:

1. Change your Thinking!

We aren’t making it up. Other people validate exactly what we are trying to impress upon you.  Our little slogan even states it – Create Your Mind – if you won’t we will!

Change your thinking and improve your life! This is why we started the CYM website and the podcasts. It starts with your way of thinking! If you want to improve your life, you have to have a mindset that gets you going in that direction!

2. Meditation

Find your higher power – this is a core step in our “Success and Opportunity Readiness Track!” Many people do meditation differently. If you want to improve your life, do not neglect this important step! Meditation through prayer if you are religious, through yoga, Buddhism, chanting, these are all ways to happiness and to improve your life!

3. Goal Setting

CYM’s “Success and Opportunity Achievement Track” is all about setting goals! Goal setting is a great motivator. Discover what you want, that one thing you want, set your goal, make a plan, and do something every day to achieve your goal! If you are doing something positive every day it leads to happiness. If you want to improve your life, then there are goals you need to set and strive for!

4. Discover your strengths

In the “Success and Opportunity Readiness Track” we discuss assets and liabilities. “YOU, Inc.” as we say. What are your strengths and how can you minimize your liabilities by improving those weaknesses? If you want to improve your life and find happiness, discover your strengths!

5. Gratitude

It is amazing how so many people’s steps to improve their life include the attitude of gratitude. Personally, I have been around so many people who seem to be negative about everything. They lack the attitude of gratitude. Not one of them is as successful as they want to be. There is a reason right?

If you are not grateful for the things around you, how can you improve your life and how can you be happy? You are always negative.

The attitude of gratitude is one of the most important steps to happiness. It comes full circle. An attitude of gratitude leads to the change in thinking and vice versa. This circle includes meditation, goal setting, and applying your strengths that can help you improve your life!

Happiness is not a life without problems. Do not fool yourself. But it is the strength to overcome these problems as you improve your life! Buddhism teaches us that we are responsible for our own happiness and unhappiness. God teaches us that through Him everything is possible. True happiness is found deep inside, the motivation to find it is based on what you want. What makes you happy?

Discover what you want, set out to attain it, and you are on the road to happiness! The CYM podcasts teaches you step by step on how to achieve this. We share with you exactly what you need to know and do on a daily basis to improve your life and find happiness! The question is: Do you want to do what it takes?

The funny thing is: We offer it for free and people pay Thousands of Dollars to sign up for these programs – then do nothing. But they feel if they pay thousands of dollars then it must be worth it. It is only worth it if you take action – and $1000 or free, if you really want it, does it matter how much you pay? Improve your life today. Listen to our podcasts and create your mind because if you won’t, we will! HAHAHAHAHA!

Thanks for reading!

Glenn Magas & Orlando Ramos are Achievement Specialists – listen to their podcasts on self-improvement, motivation and goal setting here at CreateYourMind.com:  “The Success and Opportunity Achievement Track – Podcast #1” and “The Success and Opportunity Achievement Track – Podcast #2”.  Follow these steps in order to propel yourself to Achiever Status!

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Quotes on Responsibility

Do you play the blame game?

Read on for My Top 5 Quotes on Responsibility!

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In my younger days, I used to honestly believe that my family was cursed.  In fact, I coined the phrase the “Ramos Curse”.  To

my surprise, everything that could go wrong would go wrong.  If I began to accumulate money, my car would need expensive repairs.  If I got a great job that company would begin to have financial problems.  If I was at a baseball game, the second after I walked away from my seat my team would hit a home run.  This went on and on in my life from the time I was a little kid.

Guess where it came from?  Check out the quotes on responsibility that were expressed in my house.  My grandmother’s favorite saying was “It it’s not one thing it’s another.”  My dad loved the phrase “When it rains it pours!”  Well they were right.  I saw one problem after another occur in my house and I believed “That’s the way it goes.”  Anybody else ever have these quotes on responsibility in their house?  (Place tongue in cheek here).

Well, one day I heard a speaker say that you become what you think about most of the time.  The man’s name was Earl Nightingale.  I began to listen to what I was thinking about and it dawned on me that I was not listening to quotes on responsibility but quotes on blameability ( I just made that up).  It was much easier to blame the “God’s of luck” on my misfortune then to take responsibility.  Do you know anybody like that?

Nowadays, I wince every time I hear somebody say “These things always happen to me.”  I want to say DUH!  You think that so that’s why it happens.  It’s as if you want something bad to happen to you.

Since I began affirming quotes of responsibility to myself I not only feel better about my life I actually have less stress.  I didn’t realize how stressful it was to constantly be looking out for the other shoe to drop.  I can remember that as good things happened to me I immediately began to seek out the bad thing.   Then POOF!  A speeding ticket.

It’s not always easy to take responsibility although it certainly helps when you realize that if you can create the life you have now (however you perceive it to be) without really trying than you can certainly create the life you do want if you actually have a plan and live with purpose.

Here are my top 5 quotes on responsibility:

1. You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
   — Foundation for Inner Peace: Publisher of Course in Miracles
2. Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth.  Only you can be responsible for that.  If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen.  Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
   — Stacey Charter
3. I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
   — Walter Anderson, Author of The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
4. There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
   — Jan Ashford
5. You control your future, your destiny.  What you think about comes about.  By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.  Put your future in good hands – your own.
   — Mark Victor Hansen

Thanks again for reading our blog and for more of our own quotes on responsibility check out our Where Have You Been Podcast.

To your success,

Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and the Createyourmind Team

P.S.  Do you have any quotes on responsibility?  Is there somebody in your life that plays the blame game?  We would love to hear about it.  You can leave your post below or email us at either oramos@createyourmind.com or gmagas@createyourmind.com.

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Improve your life – Motivation

What Motivates You?

Do big rewards motivate you? Big money? Vacation rewards? What? If I offered you $100,000 to shovel snow in freezing weather every day for the next 30 days would you do it? That’s a big reward isn’t it? But you have to do it for 12 hour work shifts and at night. Would you do it? I know a lot of people that $100K would save their financial situation immediately. But they wouldn’t do it – even if I doubled that offer. It’s not a big enough reward. Although it would change their life immediately!

So what motivates you to improve your life?

Look at your life. How do you live day to day? Are you a goal setter that achieves daily small goals in order to achieve the big goal to improve your life? Or do you focus on the ‘big goal’ but stay the course daily to always rack up the successes that lead to that goal? Either way, its the same. Goals are the biggest motivators that we can have. Find one!

Motivational quote: “When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.”
Jim Rohn

What makes you do this? What is your motivation to improve your life? Is it an inherit trait? Is it inside you? Or is there something that you are doing it for – family, spouse, financial reasons… Why? Why? Why? And for what?

Motivation is key to success – career, personal, family, relationships.

So what motivates you? Are you motivated by: “If you do this, then you will get that” scenario?

Here is great insight on motivation. I pulled this video from GenerallyThinking.com. It is Dan Pink speaking on Motivation. It’s a little long but great insight for those, like the CreateYourMind.com team, that love things like this = what motivates us?

Do you want to change the world? Start by working to improve your life! Forget those big rewards! Do something you really want – and influence others to do the same.

Motivational Quote: “Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a ‘must’ and ‘want.’” Jim Rohn

Wow – we can get exactly what we ‘must have’. If you must have a better life, then that is motivation enough to improve your life! Do ti! Get motivated and achieve your goals!  It’s hard – you will hit obstacles and challenges (as discussed here: Self Improvement and Motivation inspired by Challenges), but don’t quit! Improve your life!

If you are backed against the wall and feel like quiting – this little piece of inspiration will help you. “Don’t Give Up“

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Self Improvement and Motivation

Have an inspiration problem?

Read on to get a heaping helping of courage.

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Every day the Createyoumind Team combs the earth looking for self improvement and motivation under every rock. We have provided you our top motivation quotes.  There is our Success and Opportunity Readiness Track podcasts and our current Success and Opportunity Achievement Track.  It’s not until you read a story about Joannie Rochette that you find the true meaning of self improvement and motivation.

If you haven’t heard the story by now, be prepared to pull out the tissue.  Before, I start feel free to read it at YAHOO.  Joannie is a 24 year old Canadian Olympic athlete competing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver in the figure skating sport.  Just before hitting the ice to take her practice run with only three short days before competing for a gold medal and reaching a major lifetime goal the worst happened.  Her mother died.  She practiced anyway not only seven short hour after hearing of her mother’s passing, she also came out the next day as well.  At the time of this post she is ranked 3^rd in the ladies short program.

It’s stories like these where you have to take a good hard look at ourselves and ask “What have I had to overcome”?  Most times if we really look it those “challenges” we will realize that as enormous as they may have appeared they probably were more ant hill than mountain.  As you all know from reading our blog, Glenn and I have had our set of challenges and all of them added together aren’t worth a hill of beans compared to what Joannie has had to go through.

For those of us who struggle with self improvement and motivation we need to go back and review our lives.  Have we given up to easy?  Have we let our problems be bigger than us?  Did we lose the battle that takes place in the six inches between are ears?  Well, let’s commit to be more like Joanne Rochette.  No longer will we allow our challenges to stop us from achieving our goals and dreams.  She could have curled up in a ball and given up and she didn’t.  Why?  I don’t know her and I bet if you asked her she would say in some way that her Goals and Dreams are bigger than her, her mom and the whole country of Canada!  As an American, I root on Team USA in every event but for women’s figure skating I am a fan of the Goals and Dreams of one Joannie Rochette.  If this doesn’t give you self improvement and motivation than nothing will.

Thanks for reading

Orlando Ramos for Glenn Magas and the Createyourmind Team.

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