Staying motivated; a key to succeeding.

One undeniable and consistent trait that achievers in all of life's endeavours have in common is their ability to remain motivated to succeed despite failures, setbacks and seemly insurmountable obstacles.

Talent is good but it's not enough, vision is important but it's not enough also; so many with great visions have given up just at the first encounter with obstacle. So many gifted people who have given up on their dreams just because they loose their inspiration and could not get the much needed motivation to face the mountains of challenges between them and their dreams.

Getting inspired and staying motivated is a necessary skill that you must develop if you must achieve greatness. You must learn to build the necessary mechanism around you that will help you stay motivated no matter the obstacles that come your way.

When a person loses his/her inspiration/motivation, life becomes boring and painful, nothing excites them anymore. The least resistance to their advancement, they just succumb.

HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED
This is a skill and identifuing and mastering it will have a lasting impact on your life.

1. Paint a vivid mental picture of the end result of what you are aiming to accomplish. In other words, see the desired end result even before starting out and let it be strongly impressed in your mind.
   Through the power of imagination, you can travel into the future you desire and take hold of the joy and excitement that such offer, bring it to the present while you are still working to make the vision happen in reality. It's such a great motivation!

2. Identify and visualise the impact and effect that the accomplishment of your pursuit will have on your immediately environment and in the lives of your loved ones. Let this be strongly impressed on your mind.Visualise their joys, how happy and grateful they will be that your success is the reason they too are making progress with their lives.

3. Surround yourself with the stories of people who succeeded because of failures, obstacles, rejections, etc. What this will do to your mind is that it will help your mind to start thinking and seeing obstacles and failures from a different perspective. You will begin to see obstacles as stepping stones to the next level.

4. Have a source that cannot be exhausted. This is very important and personally has helped me to overcome many obstacles in life. I call this "the God factor" There is nothing as motivating as knowing that their is a Supreme Being aiding you, who has got yout back and who is interesting in you succeeding.

My greatest source of inspiration and motivation is God.

I believe if you practice these four steps continually, you will get to a point where you become so motivated that you begin to see advantages in every obstacle.

I hope this helps.