Whether you’re a small team, an organization, a company or a family, you will need a lot of motivation to get things done and achieve a level of success. But motivation can be a tricky thing—while it’s not complicated, it certainly is not something that a lot of people have automatic understanding for. So has the job of getting others excited and inspired fallen into your hands?

Here are tips on how to motivate people and bring out the best in them:

1) Find the current level of motivation of the person you wish to motivate.

Each person, whether he is an employee, a co-worker, a team member or a family member, has some amount of motivation in them. Try to identify this level. What makes them tick? What do they find exciting, interesting or worthwhile? What are their goals? How do they hope to achieve them?

Do not try to approach the challenge in a generic way because you will be met with a lack of enthusiasm or even resistance. Use a personalized approach if you want to motivate an individual. With a group, look for a common denominator—a common goal or interest—that you can use to motivate them and get them to perform.

2) See things from their point of view.

It’s easy to explain things based on what you perceive. But what about what others see, think or feel? Each time you present an idea or concept to the person you want to motivate, ask them for their opinions and listen to what they have to say. You can then use information obtained from them in order to create a motivational plan that has the strongest appeal to them.

3) Use positive reinforcement.

Between pleasure and pain, people will always choose pleasure. Try to steer away from using negative motivational tactics such as fear or threats. These could work initially but they are not very effective for motivating people over a long term. Besides, using negative reinforcements might result to a feeling of annoyance, anger or exasperation. If not corrected early, this could even lead to aggression and rebellion.

Use rewards instead. To motivate people, give recognition, acknowledgment, gratitude, even gifts or citations. People want to know that you notice their hard work. Didn’t you say you expected the best? Once someone has risen to that level of excellence, give them the recognition they deserve. You’ll be surprised at how effective this technique is in keeping people motivated.

4) Show, don’t tell.

If you want to know how to effectively motivate people, show them through example. What sort of behavior do you expect from them? Why not show them by doing it yourself? They will be more willing to believe than if you just lecture and never show.

5) Don’t push.

It is said that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. When you’re trying to motivate people check to see if their willingness is still there. There is a point in every endeavor when you begin to meet with resistance. This could happen for a number of reasons, including boredom, distraction, discovery of other more interesting things or just simply lack of interest. It could also be that your motivational efforts have reached a plateau.

Should this happen, learn to let up, step back and if necessary, let go. People will be more motivated if they don’t feel pressured. If you sense a resistance, stop and check for identifiable factors that are stopping you. Once you have found them, design a different approach.

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There will always be times in your life when you have to perform tasks that you deem unpleasant for one reason or another—working with a co-worker you don’t like, going to work on Mondays, taking the garbage out, driving to meet the in-laws at the airport, having dinner with the spouse’s friends…

Doing these things just siphons whatever motivation you have inside you and makes you feel sad, tired, sorry, even annoyed. But did you know that there are also things inside you that actually make it difficult to feel excited and enthusiastic? Get to learn the factors that make you hard to motivate:

1) Your mindset: Your mindset is a major factor that can make you hard to motivate. This is because it can severely limit your understanding of the world and all experiences in general. Your mindset can sometimes be composed of growth-inhibiting beliefs, prejudices, biases and standards.

If, for example, you believe that nothing good can come out of your staff, you’ll fail to see that there is a clerk there that actually has management potential.

If you refuse to believe that you can actually write for a famous magazine because you’re a person from a small town, you’ll miss out on an opportunity to expose your talent and reap its rewards.

2) Your comfort zone: We all have certain limitations in our minds. These limits are things we decide on based on our own personal beliefs, ethics and standards. Within these limits, we feel comfortable in and can pretty much do as we like.

Once we approach the outer edges, we begin to feel discomfort, shyness, embarrassment or annoyance. We do not wish to go further because we do not like what we don’t know or haven’t experienced. Because we have a fear of the unknown, we’d rather stay within our comfort zones because we feel safe there.

The problem here is that a narrow comfort zone can be a major factor that makes you hard to motivate. Each time you are presented with a new idea or experience, you check to see if it fits into your comfort zone.

If it doesn’t, then you simply refuse, no questions asked. This is unfortunate because many of these ideas and experiences can be good for you. But you’ll probably never know because you don’t have the motivation to try them.

3) Your past experience: Did you get burned by the stove? That’s probably why you hate to cook. Did your former bosses fail to show appreciation for your hard work? That’s probably one reason why you don’t feel motivated about your job.

Your background—personal, social and professional experiences—has a lot to do with how you decide things in your life. They can also be factors that make you hard to motivate. If these experiences are negative, they tend to make you more hesitant and unsure of yourself because they affect your self-esteem and confidence.

If, for example, you’ve only been met with rejection or ridicule in your life, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine if you don’t feel a strong need to excel or to improve yourself. You’ll probably be thinking “So what? Nothing I ever did was good anyway. Why would things change now?”

Unless you consciously make an effort to identify these past experiences and then refuse to let them rule your life, you will always be hard to motivate.

Each month, I am besieged by nice, well-meaning folk who desperately desire to be writers, consultants, coaches, speakers, and information marketers.

Many of these people actually have quite a bit of talent for writing, consulting, coaching, speaking, and authoring information products.

Yet most will not succeed for a single common reason…

They have nothing to teach, write, or speak about.

You see this all the time…

** Marketing consultants who have never held a corporate marketing job or worked at an ad agency or created a single winning marketing campaign.

** Numerous sales trainers who were either mediocre salesmen or never sold anything at all.

** Business opportunity marketers who have never actually done the businesses that they write and talk about.

** Financial newsletter editors who haven’t made a dime in the market in years.

** Internet marketers who sell e-books written by freelance ghostwriters who knew nothing about the topic and just researched it online with Google.

To succeed as a writer, speaker, consultant, coach, and especially as an Internet info marketer, you need just 2 things: (a) the ability to write, speak, consult, or coach and (b) something to write, speak, consult, or coach about.

To be fair, you also need to know how to (c) market, promote, and sell yourself to get leads, customers, and sales.

Lots of people have the (a) and (c) can be learned, but too many lack (b), a subject to write about.

RS, author of books and newsletters on gold and gold investing, once told me: If you can gain specialized knowledge, you will never go broke.

The best way to gain this knowledge is as a participant in or practitioner of the skill or specialized field you want to write about.

People believed RS when he recommended investing in a particular gold stock, because before he edited a newsletter on gold stocks, he spent 3 decades as a mining consultant.

Some wanna-be gurus decide they will master a field by reading about it and studying it, and neglect to actually participate in it.

That’s a mistake.

Book learning is important, but there are limits to how far it can take you, and it is no substitute for real-world experience.

For instance, years ago, I signed up at a local adult education program to take a course in mail order.

At the time I had a small mail order business, and I had been in direct marketing for decades…but I am always reading and taking classes to see what extra knowledge I can pick up.

When the class started, it was obvious the instructor—a business teacher at a local community college—was reading from a textbook and had absolutely zero experience in and knowledge of mail order.

The class bombarded her with questions which she could not answer. Since I had identified myself when the teacher took attendance, I was trapped into answering them and pretty much teaching the rest of the class—not what I wanted.

I once read an article by professional speaker Mike Aun in which he talked about the fact that in addition to being a speaker, he ran a successful insurance agency.

He asserted that no one should be a full-time professional speaker; having a real business gave him the knowledge and content he needed to deliver in his talks.

I agree with Aun. I am frequently asked when I give a seminar on copywriting whether I just give seminars or do I still write copy.

I am proud to reply that I am an active participant in every area (copywriting, Internet marketing, book publishing, freelance writing) that I teach others through my how-to writing and speaking.

I don’t see how I could do otherwise. Active participation keeps your skills sharp and your knowledge level current.

It also gives you a living laboratory in which to test out your ideas to make sure your advice works in the real world.

And, it establishes your credibility with the audience or reader.

I once heard a speaker tell a group of aspiring speakers to read books on their topics an hour a day every day for a full year.

“If you do, you will be an expert on your topic and qualified to teach it to others,” the speaker said.

To which I reply: no, you won’t.

You will have a theoretical knowledge of your topic.

But you will lack the confidence and depth of knowledge that having actual experience in a process, skill, or activity gives you.

The other danger of learning only by reading instead of doing is that a lot of how-to writers don’t know their subjects that well…and frequently give wrong advice.

If you have no real-world experience and haven’t tried the methods you teach, you have no way of knowing whether they work or not.

Writing, speaking, and consulting about a topic you know thoroughly is easier—and a lot more fun—than trying to fake your way through a subject in which you are barely conversant.

When you’re a true expert, your reports, e-books, and other information products seem to fly out of your PC with lightning speed and always ring true to your customers.

In addition, your customers will recognize and praise your genuine expertise, giving a big boost to your self-esteem and ego.

Plus, as a true expert, you are light years ahead of your competitors who only know your topic through second-hand research or minimal real-world experience.

Therefore you enjoy a significant competitive edge both in the quality of your products and services and the effectiveness of your marketing.

And it all starts with knowing your topic inside and out.

Bob Bly is the author of “World’s Best Copywriting Secrets” and has written copy for more than 100 companies including IBM, Boardroom, Medical Economics and AT&T. He is the author of more than 75 books and a columnist for Target Marketing, Early To Rise and The Writer. McGraw-Hill calls him “America’s top copywriter”.

True success in life can only come by not settling for mediocrity, we should always strive to achieve and get the most out of life that we possibly can, it is only when we push ourselves and give it all we’ve got can we then give ourselves a pat on the back for a job well done.

Success in life depends on self-discipline and not giving in at the first hurdle you come across or going into a project only half-heartedly, by pushing yourself that little bit further you will be surprised at what you are capable of achieving, this is what separates the winners from the losers or the successful from the unsuccessful.

All people say that they want to succeed in life at whatever they do but very few are willing to actually push themselves just little bit further in order to achieve their goals, and this is why some of us succeed in life while others fail.

How well you succeed is all about how bad you want the success, what it means to you, are you willing to succeed a little or are you willing to go the whole nine yards and beyond to achieve a higher status and be outstanding?

We all start out with the best of intentions when racing towards the goals we have set, we shoot out of the starting gate and run down the straight away but many of us fall back at the first hurdle, we don’t push, we run
out of steam when the going gets tough, we don’t pause to catch our second wind but come to a halt and give up.

We stumble on half-heartedly and cross the finish line in second or third place at best, if we even finish at all.

Never settle for anything less than giving it you’re all. Here are some tips to help you remember never to settle for anything but your best no matter what the project is. It doesn’t matter how big or small the project is, put your all into getting it completed.

If you think you have given it your best shot, pause and ask yourself, “Could I improve?”

Plan our your project but always be willing to make changes and work your way around the unexpected. It’s OK to pause but get back into the race and carry on until you pass the finish line.

Hope these tips help in keeping you up on your game and staying motivated, talk to you again soon.

When you were growing up, how often did you hear the words, “It’s better to be safe than sorry”? Probably too often, especially when you became aware that most people who played it safe ended up sorry. It is the risk takers who generally end up winners!

How many people do you know who have passed up a magnificent opportunity because they might have had to mortgage their house or quit the job they had held for a number of years. Rather than step out boldly, they stepped back into safety.

Abraham Maslow said you will either step forward into growth or step back into safety. He also advised us if you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I am not suggesting that you become irresponsible, which is quite different from taking risks, although I will agree it is a fine line that separates the two.

The opposite of taking a risk is, of course, playing it safe. The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for 70 or 80 years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. Playing it safe is a pretty dull way to live and you end up looking back on your life wondering what would have happened if you had done this or tried that.

People who play it safe are generally not very exciting. In fact, they would probably border on being very boring. On a scale of one to ten as a risk taker, where do you stand?

Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk. Remember, if you play it safe you may end up sorry.

Many people live their whole lives with fabulous and yet unfulfilled dreams. This is because dreams are little more than whimsy until focused and determined action is applied. Taking action is how you make fantasy into reality and achieve your wildest imaginings.

There are a good number of reasons to delay or deny yourself action. Some individuals find that they are always waiting for a better time, more money or a phenomenal opportunity. In reality however, most of these same are actually afraid to take the dreaded first step. This is because most advances towards success require a willingness to risk failure. Many people certainly have their reasons for delaying or denying actions. Most people will tell you that they are waiting for a better opportunity, more time, more money, or some other thing that is always just over the horizon. The truth however, is that most people are actually afraid to take action. They know that each time they do they risk failure.

Because of this, it is rarely ever external circumstances that keep people from moving forward. It is usually internal fear instead that keeps people motionless when the should be up and running. Self-doubt and fear is what often keeps people living mediocre and mundane lives when they instead could be taking the bull by the horns, so to speak.

Courage is the beginning of taking action. It is about recognizing that there is a possibility of failure and yet moving forward anyway. Great acts of courage are rarely, if ever, totally absent of fear. When you are ready to start aggressively walking the path of your life you must accept that there will be times of great terror in which you must keep pushing forward in spite of the negative emotions that attempt to thwart your progress.

Inactivity can actually be a huge source of depression and other damaging emotions. It is an unnatural way of living life, especially when you must watch dreams die away and opportunities dissolve. Choosing to take action often helps to restore positive thinking and a healthy and vibrant emotional state. Your body and mind are most happy and alive when you are putting them up for overcoming challenges.

One of the best ways to end a spell of stagnant living is to take stock of the underlying issues of your dormancy. It is important to ask yourself why you have been inactive in certain areas. By clearly outlining your fears you can begin to address and conquer them. You will find that in areas where you may not have advanced before because it seemed inopportune, you were instead simply afraid of risking failure.

It is also important to take a good look at the people that you surround yourself with. If you are constantly in the company of negative individuals that do not take action on their own dreams, it is likely that you will listen to a lot of discouraging and negative speak. When you are around this type of energy for extended periods of time you are far less likely to respond to life’s challenges in a positive key.

When you choose to confront your fear and get rid of unnecessary negative feedback from those around you, you can keep a positive, proactive mindset. Taking action is sure to give you the results that you have been seeking but not getting while laying around and waiting for something to happen. When you put your hand to the task of structuring your life, you can steer valiantly towards the future of your very dreams.

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