How to Motivate Yourself to Success

Now, reading the title would make you think "How CAN you motivate someone? That's just impossible!" and 'll be straight with you - I can't! Only you can motivate your own self. I'm only writing this to offer points you can consider to use in order to build up your motivation.

Belief

Before you carry out any task, you need to believe you CAN see it through and WILL do it to the best of your abilities. Usually, people don't believe in their selves because of past experiences of failures and trash talking from other people.

When you don't get what you want or what you expect, it's easy to just give up and start something else. And often, this is what most people do - including me, before I got fed up of it. Having to face failures is never easy. You can have ten guys beating you up - anything but failing all the time. To avoid failure, believe that you are not a failure, or a waste. Just think of failures as accidents and lessons to make your future better. Don't back down and just move forward.

Be reasonable, be realistic

For example, when you just cannot get an A, no matter how hard you've worked for the maths test. It's so easy to say "You know what? I'm just naturally dumb!" Believe me, if you were dumb, you wouldn't be able to read this article at all. In case you didn't notice, only highly educated people can read this.

When failure strikes, think of the possible reasons why it may be. Challenge yourself, question yourself of the possibilities - be critical on yourself. Denying faults will never help, it will only make the matter worse. So, be brave, stand up and admit your mistakes. Have you worked hard enough to deserve success? Have you missed any minor, important detail? Let failure be a lesson and instead of moaning about it, think of ways to overcome it and avoid it in the future.

Competition

Everyone likes to compete every now and then. Whether it's between siblings or friends, competition is always encouraging. It only gets bad when you let yourself be a bit 'too competitive'. When you compete, the drive to win is usually higher than the drive to succeed. Often times, people do succeed because of their competitive side. Either it's to compete with your past excellent records or take part in a race, competition is good as it encourages you to do better than you have in the past. Tell yourself "I'm going to win this thing!" and repeat it in your head until you completely believe in it. Just make sure you work as hard as you should. After all, what's the point of talk if there's no action, right?

Nabihah is a 17 year old girl who not only learns from her experience, but others'. She loves to read and write, and watch TV programmes which she finds useful in life, hence the secret behind her knowledge. She has started her own website at http://www.noughttrouble.com, which covers a wide range of problems and how it can be handled.

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