Positive thinking is key to motivation at Stop Getting Hosed

Confidence, motivation and self discipline are key to anyone’s success. If you don’t have one, my suggestion is start too. Without it, good luck if you get anything done in life. Just keeping a positive outlook on things helps get rid of the negativity in your life. Negative thought bring negative outcomes. I am big on the philosophy of “for every action there is a reaction”.

Positive Vs. Negative thought:

Now how do we get there? Well start with getting rid of negativity in your life, this includes people. You know the ones who are constantly complaining and whining, they are always producing a lot of negativity. Another is to attempt to stop thinking negative about pretty much everything. Try to find the good in it or the lesson to be learned. I know it’s hard I am still struggling with this one. But it’s large when it comes to confidence, self esteem and success. Finally people just like working with positive people, it’s more productive. Plus people are usually willing to open up to you. They love to Include you in their endeavors, because positive attitudes come solutions and negative ones come excuses.

Compliment Yourself:

Give yourself a pat on the back, we don’t do that too often but we need to do it. And there are many ways. One is keep a journal of your day to day tasks and accomplishments. And every so often review what you have done in the past month. Just seeing all the stuff you have done places a chip on your shoulder and increase your motivation.

Talk To Yourself:

Learn to talk to yourself. May sound silly or a little insane, but it really works! It’s a great confidence builder. Just saying wow I did great on that project, or man the pergola I built turned out fantastic. This is all great for your self esteem and motivates you to tackle bigger and better things.

Planning Is Key:

Set your goals from a life and a financial perspective. So plan what you want to achieve for you and your family. Now you need to break this down and set yourself goals. There is a lot of material on this I suggest you read up on this. And also get your finances also aligned, by making a financial plan. This includes a budget to see where all your money is going, and plans for retirement. Savings plan for what you want to buy in the future. Finally a net worth plan to see what your worth. Once these are built and maintained you will be more confident and motivated to move onto bigger and better things.

Be One With Yourself:

Finally spend some quiet time everyday for yourself. Say an hour, or what I do take a weekend off away from the family to reset your bearings. Here I can concentrate on me and my needs. It’s a time to set your goals prioritize your life and just figure out your next steps are. Plus the quiet time is great for the mind and body. This way you go back less stressed and trust me your family appreciates a calm and loving person. This is something that should be done almost monthly even for a few hours. And everyone should do it.

Research:

Once again there is a lot of info out there on these topics and I highly recommend you attack these. These are crucial to your well being, for your body, soul and mind. I am sure you will agree a confident and motivated person gets the things you want in life. Unfortunately for most of us we don’t get things served on a silver platter. And I don’t think we should be given things without working for it. We all should design and build our destiny in the world we live in. We all in our hearts want to leave some sort of legacy or remembrance in the future.