Maintaining Your Motivation

The most successful person in any room, is the one who has failed the most.

80–90% of business will fail and fold within their first 18 months.

1% will achieve the millionaire status.

8% of people will follow through on their New Year’s resolution.

2% of athletes make it from being an hopeful candidate to professional.

Failure. We’ve all experienced it, but how is it some continue to remain motivated despite extraordinary moments of failure ?

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game’s winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed — Michael Jordan

I regularly found myself getting excited about starting a new project and plan. However a few days and weeks later that feeling begins to tail off and I start to procrastinate. I could not understand why this kept on happening. I often mention my first experience working full time as graduate in the world of brokering. Due to the very nature of the job I found myself learning a lot about how I best perform. Dedicating time on my personal development I realised I must conquer how to motivate myself.

Through hours of reading and researching I decided to start experimenting on various methods to motivate myself. Each of the methods listed have been proven to work for people but some may work better depending on…