Inspirations and Motivations

#1 Persistence

Some people who are reading this may have a job that isn't going the way they planned; first of all, it isn't their dream job, and second-nothing is being accomplished. Others are at school and may have problems doing the best they can even though they study harder than most. Are you this person? Do you want to be motivated? Do you want to continue doing your best, but start accomplishing something great? Well, I have a formula for you that includes persistence, problems (YES, problems), a purpose, a perspective, and optimism. 

When I asked Google to spit out a definition of persistence, it told me "firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition". I agree with Google, not because it's intellectual but because it worked hard, fast, and gave me a (seemingly) frank definition of persistence. To be persistent you must work hard, even through the challenges and obstacles. I know that this is easy to say and harder to do, trust me; I've had a problem with persistence, until I figured an easy way to deal with the obstacles and challenges while focusing on doing my best on the goal (whether it be a project for school or work). I started taking things one step at a time. It's easy to take things one step at a time and procrastinate until you remember that your project was due several weeks ago, well I have something that may work.

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This year, I had taken an art course (during the first semester of my new school year); well, the art teacher didn't really teach me new techniques, because she assumed that I had learned it all prior to that class...however, I hadn't and it was very difficult for me to see others drawing things better than me since I used to believe that I was a great artist before seeing my classmates works. I started getting bad marks, and that decreased my motivation to do anything, I had a problem with being persistent because of the negative feedback that I was getting on my art and I started handing things in before they were finished-I just wanted to get rid of it. 

That same year in that course, I decided to listen to the teacher and persevere through the art class; s/he believed in me and knew that I can do better than a 60% because s/he had seen my drawing...my teacher believed in me, and that was what motivated me to continue working on my project(s) until the end. I made art a regular habit for me, and I made it fun by expressing my imagination. I knew that the problem to my failure was because I wasn't taking the full time to finish my project, and because I looked at others works that were better than mine. I started to sit alone during art class, and work on my art projects during lunch (if I thought that I'd need more time, and whenever I had free time on my calendar) soon after doing that art became a habit that was irresistable and I started producing great works. At the end of the year, I had gone from a 60% to a 78% (close to an 80%, which is pretty impressive if you ask me).

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So, what I ask you to do is this:

Find a goal

Find a motivation  

Schedule a time for when you are free, and work on that goal (whether it be personal or strictly business (i.e. a project) 

Make it a habit

Make it a fun activity to do

If you're failing, then find the reason to your failure and fix it (You cannot fix everything by  yourself, as Albert Einstein once said 'You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.'  Sometimes you may need help, and there is no shame in asking for it.)

Most of all rewards yourself every time you finish a goal!! :-)

 A/N: (This will go on for five more chapters due to the six various areas...I'd like to talk about one at a time.)