Rodney Gainous, Jr.

Posts Tagged ‘proverbs 16:26’

Today I want to talk about Motivation. I have a few questions first. What motivates you to do what you do? Is your motivation strong enough to keep you going? What drives you to persist? What fuels your desires

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Motivation is defined as a stimulus, influence, incentive or drive. Motivation is that thing that keeps you going, and going, and going, just like the Energizer Bunny. Motivation is the thing that drives you.

Proverbs 16:26 says The person who labors, labors for himself, for his hungry mouth drives him on.

When a man is hungry he will do anything to satisfy that hunger. Those hunger pangs are the motivating factor that drives him to find food. A hungry man knows that if he doesn’t eat, eventually he will die. Now is that motivation or what?

In business you must have a motivating factor or factors that drive you to be successful. If not, you will struggle continuously. Not only should you have these things that drive you, you must use them daily as a reminder of what needs to be done to be successful.

When finding your motivating factors there are two approaches you can take. You can take the negative approach or the positive approach. An example of the negative approach is looking at all of the bad things that can happen to you if you don’t persist and make things happen. Some negative things are:

• Working for someone else
• Always lacking money
• Dealing with rush hour traffic
• Not having freedom to manage your own time

These are the types of things that are so bad that you don’t want to experience them. The thought of going through these things makes you work hard to accomplish your goals.

The positive approach would be to look at the benefits of doing what needs to be done to get rewarded. Some positive things are:

• Financial freedom
• Total control of your schedule (freedom)
• Working for yourself
• More time with the family

When you take the positive approach, it’s all about accomplishing your goals to obtain pleasure. You will do what you need to do for gratification.

Regardless of what approach you use to motivate yourself, you MUST be persistent in going for the gold. You MUST work hard everyday to achieve your goals. You MUST not take no for an answer. You MUST keep your eyes focused on the end result and not your present circumstance.

CONSISTENCY is the key.

For me, I have a number of motivating factors I use to motivate me but you must find your own.

So find out what truly motivates you (negative or positive) and use it! Find out what feeds your fuel and keep it moving forward.

To YOUR Success,