People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing - thats why we recommend it daily.If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesnt need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.Desire is the key to motivation, but its determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesnt thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. Im just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasnt paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.Desire is the key to motivation, but its the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think thats good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then Ive asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. Thats really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it wont sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire. My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So thats the truth. And my goal is the same - its to always be happy playing, its to enjoy the game and improve always. In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. Im actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when theyre not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years. If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. Ive seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I dont see it as a deficiency.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:07:47 +0000
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