Staying Motivated

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STAYING MOTIVATED
INTRODUCTION

“If motivation doesn’t last, it doesn’t count.”
Have you ever heard a pep talk? Ever been fired up in a team meeting, only to
be back down to normal by the time you got to your car? Have you ever made
a New Year’s resolution to lose weight or exercise and within two or three
weeks you were back to your old habits? Have you ever bought a book to help
you become more successful and never got around to reading it? Getting
hyped up, only to come back down makes no sense to me. If motivation
doesn’t last, it doesn’t count.

Most people really struggle with motivating themselves. I spent twenty-five
years managing salespeople, so I have witnessed countless talented, smart,
well-trained professional people fail to work up to their potential. I’ve dealt
with many temporarily motivated people. I’ve also seen what made the
winners consistent. It wasn’t remarkable brains, talent, gifts, luck, or superior
DNA. It was their ability to exercise self-discipline and their ability to selfmotivate.
Why some seem to do this effortlessly and others seem totally
incapable has puzzled managers, business owners, teachers and parents for
years. Here I assure you, we’ll solve the puzzle. When you have finished this
book, (And you will finish this one, right?) you will be a master at how to get
and stay motivated and you will be able to exercise self-discipline at will.

If you really want things to change, you are going to have to really change. You
are going to have to do some things differently. Different actions will bring you
different results. Different isn’t bad. Different isn’t even necessarily more
difficult. Different is just different. People who are continually self-motivated
and who effortlessly exercise self-discipline do things differently than you. I’m
going to reveal to you what they do differently and then you can choose how
much of it you adopt. One caveat: If you adopt all of it, you will take your life to
a level that most only dream about.