Motivation Success: The Little Engine That Could

How many things do we need to be successful at?

How many ways can we motivate ourselves to accomplish this success? Every day we push ourselves. Looking for motivation and success?

We connect with our family and friends; connect with our colleagues. There are only so many ways to stretch ourselves. Every time there is a dip in the proverbial cup the need to fill it back up is there.

We think the cup is easier to fill then it was for our ancestors; accomplishing it perhaps less harsh but tedious just the same. There is a history of leaders using motivation to build successful societies. Gathering food to stay alive or clothing their families for warmth. We are as driven as our ancestors.

Our motivation for success is instinctual. Even at the earliest stage of life; infants driven by it to crawl; toddlers driven by it to walk. In the teen years we’re driven by motivation to become successful academically; well, somewhere after the pursuit of finding something on four wheels to leave the nest. As high school and college graduates, the drive cumulates to the ultimate motivation; success through our work.

The road we find ourselves on however is not a straight path in any one direction. Women and men jaunt off in all directions. Responsibilities coupled with the desire to be successful in all we do. Are we successful husbands, wives, parents, co-workers, and friends? Are we motivated enough to continue this success? To get there is the paradox of having and obtaining more motivation to in the end be more successful.

This instinct drives men and women the same. Not in competition; motivation is about something more in the context of survival, or living if you will. Individuals with motivation may be misunderstood. Levels of motivation may differ between two people. Perhaps, as instinct would have it, one individual knows his needs to feed himself alone while another is aware of his needs to feed a family.

It may not be uncommon for individuals to feel in competition. Perhaps it is more that we reevaluate our needs through the observation of others. A personal wakeup call so to speak.

To find what we are looking for, we can either motivate ourselves for personal success; or as our ancestors did in building societies, we can motivate for the success of all. Motivation and success go hand in hand; personally and in a community.

Neither is unique to any one individual, sex, age or culture. It is instinctual; and in the instances where we may forget to use our motivation; success is not lost. Though we can apply our hearts and minds to find our silenced sense of motivation and our success will follow.

Thought Power And How To Unleash Yours

Thought Power is the most powerful creative force known to humanity...

Everything that we have today - the inventions and modern conveniences, our legal system, the books in our libraries, and our religious belief systems, to cite but a few examples, all began with a concept in someone’s mind and came to fruition though thought power.

Some people who have studied various types of Metaphysical belief systems believe that Thought Power creates a being called a Thought-form. Thought-forms are dispatched to go get whatever it is that the meta physician desires.

Thought Power Is Contagious

Have you ever been in a “down” mood and then entered into the company of someone who was so happy and charismatic that it was impossible to be sad or angry around this person?

A great public speaker has the ability to transform the emotions of their audience with their thought power. This can work for either good or bad-one of the prime examples of a public speaker with this power in modern times was Adolf Hitler.

Like attracts like, and thoughts are contagious. Hitler knew this and used this fact to turn the emotions of his mesmerized audience over the course of the many years of his reign, unfortunately turning thought power into a force for destruction and death.

Examples of those who have this power and use it to help people include Anthony Robbins, the dynamic motivational speaker, and Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the creator of the Psycho-cybernetics system.

The Psycho-cybernetics system runs on the principle that “as you think of yourself, so you become”. Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who couldn’t understand why his patients would undergo surgery to correct birthmarks or facial damage caused in an accident, and then still think of themselves as ugly, despite the evidence in the mirror to the contrary.

Psycho-cybernetics utilizes thought power in the “Theatre of the mind”, a place inside your mind where you go everyday and “play out” scenarios of how you would bring about changes in your life right down to the level of envisioning what you will say to others to cause the changes and events that you desire to take place.

We all have the power to do this - you don’t have to be Dr. Maltz or Tony Robbins to use your thought power in this way...

All of the “new and wonderful” information contained in the book The Secret was actually written many years ago in books that are now in the public domain. One such book is As A Man Thinketh by James Allen. In this book he teaches that our thoughts change when we raise the level of our vibration to a higher level.

Our thoughts have the power to heal us or to kill us. Think for a moment how you feel after you have gotten angry and “gone off” on someone.

While it may be good to get an injustice off your chest, the very act of sending out angry thoughts can make you physically ill. Likewise, thinking happy, uplifting thoughts will make you feel much better...

Mind Powers

How much of the mind is conscious and how much is subconscious? It is said that the subconscious is the larger circle which includes the smaller circle of the conscious, everything conscious has a preliminary subconscious stage...

Most of us are completely unaware of the vast mind powers we carry about with us all our lives. It is said that by ignoring these forces, the average person uses only about 10 percent of his or her potential.

That’s right! We have unlimited potential all around us, all we must do is learn how to take hold of it, and life itself calls upon us to awaken to this very power.

The power to be whatever you want to be, to get what you want in life, to accomplish whatever you are striving for, lies dormant, sleeping within you until you call upon it.

You need only bring it forth and put it to work...

The first step is to realize and believe that you do possess this power – your first job then, is to get to know this power, you want to get the feel of it. The mind is indeed creative and you can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

You need not be unhappy, you need not be unsuccessful, you need not be poor. You are indeed in possession of unlimited potential. Within you is a power which if properly grasped and directed - can lift you up and place you among the doers, the thinkers, and the leaders.

In all mental activity, we can see that the subconscious mind plays an important role. Its influence is held to be most marked in creative matters where the results of its action are known as inspiration.

The inventor, who suddenly stumbles upon the perfect way of perfecting his or her invention, the poet, who suddenly comes up with the right words to use in his or her poem. The scientist, who accidentally finds the long-sought-after ingredient needed to complete his or her formula, all praise their inspiration – which is in reality the product of subconscious thinking.

If we learn how to use our mind wisely, we will never want for ideas or the energy we need to see them through...

The difference between the successful person and the unsuccessful one is not so much a matter of training or equipment. It is not a question of luck or opportunity. It is just in the way that each of them looks at things.

The successful person sees an opportunity, seizes upon it, and moves upward on the ladder of success. It never occurs to him or her that they may fail. The successful person only seeing opportunity, visions what he or she can do with it, and all the forces within and without combine to help them succeed.

The unsuccessful person sees the same opportunity, wishes that he or she could take advantage of it, but is fearful that their ability, money or credit may not be equal to the task.

In the end, it rests with you and only you to use the power you need to succeed. A power you have indeed possessed from the day you were born...