To illustrate and get a brief introduction into the need of motivation, I want to share a few lines written by one of the world’s most influential success teachers.

In his book university of success, Og Mandino states:

Stand on any busy downtown street corner and spend 10 minutes watching humanity pass before you.

How many, out of each hundred, would you guess have specific goals in their life which they are pursuing with all their vigor?

If you were a betting person you could probably wager considerable sums of money that none-out of any hundred who passed-had any goals that extended beyond that particular day!

Setting goals, you would learn from these individuals, if you had the courage to ask, is “something that the company bosses do when they are planning next year’s budget.

Setting goals is what football coaches and baseball managers often do.

Setting goals is what presidents and governors and fundraisers always talk about since they are involved with large operations.

But how can we think about setting goals for ourselves when our paychecks aren’t even a large enough to cover our bills?”

Perhaps those paychecks are not large enough to pay their bills, and maybe never will be, because they have no goals, no concrete plans on how to improve their life, no ideas on how to raise their income, improve their talents, expand their knowledge, or increase their value to society!

Regretfully, most of them are skippers of ships headed nowhere!

While at first glance these lines may appear to be a little extreme, but in reality they are very factual.

Why is it that most people do not set large goals for themselves?

Well, if they had a strong your personal motivation, they would actually set and strive for ever increasing goals and higher levels of success.

Obviously we can see that the immense need for personal motivation is an indispensable characteristic of success, self attained wealth, and the realization of any other dreams or desires.

Motivate yourself by realizing that you can achieve any goal that you set out for yourself as long as you stick with it and never give up.

Knowing that you can achieve anything will allow you to think big, dream big, and set big goals.

And big goals are the starting point of big achievement.



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