What Motivates You To Succeed? 2 Significant Factors For Success + MORE

Life is pretty much set out for us from the moment we are born. A regimented schedule that we must adhere to if we are to be successful in this world. You must go to school, you must gain some qualifications, you must attend college/university, you must get a proper career, you must get a mortgage, you must get married and have kids and then government will let you collect your pension at some arbitrary age when you’re deemed to be ready for the scrapheap…

 
To paraphrase a comment made several years ago by a former President, it depends upon what the definition of “it” is.  The “it” I’m talking about is debilitating if it becomes overwhelming.  “It” can destroy the best of intentions.  “It” can render people speechless, useless and pointless…

Admit it.You’ve tried everything and still your inner gremlin is destined to outlive your earthly existence.You’ve tried resisting it.You’ve tried ignoring it.You’ve tried to replace it with a more positive, cuddly gremlin. You’ve even tried intimidating it.Nevertheless it persists, immortal and ever present, torturing you with negativity, doubt, and using its familiarity with you to exploit your deepest, darkest fears…

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By Dr Anne Hilty –
We all know about intelligence: the kind measured by IQ (and Mensa) tests. A measurement of verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematic skills, this appears on first consideration to be an accurate portrait of intellect. Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard, theorized (and popularized) the concept of “multiple intelligences” during the past two decades, a theory which highlights types of intelligence beyond this measure: musical, kinetic, visual-spatial, and more…

I’m in a crossfit gym, absolutely drenched in sweat and gasping for air, with a trainer breathing down my neck yelling at me to push harder.  Others around me have already given up, with just a few remaining survivors.  At this point, I have two options:
1) I drop what I’m doing and tell the trainer: “The hell with this!  I’m paying you, I’ll go at my own pace!”
2) I suck it up, somehow muster up some more energy, give it all I got and push harder…

I often write about how a good start to your day often leads to having a good day in general.
A social, an energetic or a productive start sets the context for your day.
But on some days you may not get a good start for some reason.
Maybe you slept badly. Or the maybe the winter snow and cold is dragging your energy down…

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