Think back to a
time in your life when someone inspired you. It could be a conference you attended or saw
online. You could have read a profile of
someone you admired in an article or on the internet. Whatever the case, the motivation of others
can be a great strengthening aid to how you see yourself.
You have likely
read books about famous people who you admired or perhaps you saw a documentary
of their life on television. These often
show you what they had to go through to become the successful person that gave
you motivation within your own life. They
highlighted about the pain they had to endure and all the challenges they faced
to achieve their goals. Sometimes, the
stories will shock you. It’s hard to
believe that these famous people ever had to deal with adverse situations. But not everyone who has become successful in
their lives are individuals who were born “with a silver spoon in their mouths.” Many of them had to struggle, and struggle
hard, to get where there are today and their life stories can be very
motivational.
The internet gives
us plenty of opportunities to view stories of high-profile people. Just search on YouTube, and you will find
hundreds (if not thousands) of videos of these people describing their
experiences. You may find books covering
the same subject, but videos may have more impact on you. However, there's usually much more detail in
books rather than in a video. Therefore,
you should take advantage of both so that you are able to get the complete
story.
Sometimes, you might
be lucky enough to meet the people who you admire. You can often
meet people at conferences and seminars. It’s great to talk to these people and ask
them questions. Most people in this
position will gladly accept these questions. It’s part of the process. Of course, you want to be respectful of their
time and not hog the question-and-answer sessions all to yourself. There may be others who also admire these
people in some regards and they will perhaps have questions that you haven’t
yet thought of.
It’s great to have
others who help motivate you. However,
if you place them too high on a pedestal, you may find it difficult to motivate
yourself. You will start to believe
these people have an innate ability that you don’t possess. That is counterproductive. It may make you begin to feel that YOU
will NEVER be able to accomplish what they have done within their lives
and you will want to give up and never try.
You need to realize they all started the same as you. Some may have had initial advantages, but even
people with these advantages don’t always do right with them. Most people still need to work hard to attain
their goals. And not everyone has the
same goals. It’s not always MONEY that
makes a person successful, nor is it necessarily fame. You will have to determine what will be the
prize at the end of your goals that will give you the reward of success.
Another issue is
spending too much time listening or reading about people who motivate you. At some point, you must take appropriate
action to get going with your own goals. It is worthwhile to feed off the motivation of
others, but you need to do more than going to seminars or reading books. None of that
matters unless you put in the effort
yourself. Once that happens, others may
be coming to you one day saying how you helped motivate them. You might think of it as being the fan in the
stadium who cheers on his favorite football player to score a goal. The cheers and excitement of the fans may
inspire and motivate the player to do his best and attempt the score on every
play. However, it is the player who must
get the ball and actually make the touchdown.
The fans can’t do it for him.
The same is true for us in life. Others may inspire us to move forward with great aspirations. But it is each of us individually who must make the needed efforts for the goal to be reached. And you should never forget that regardless of how much others inspire us, nor how much we individually motivate ourselves, we also have that great enemy of self-doubt warring against us because we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"The greatest fan
on your side
is YOU!"
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