Treasure

BE YOUR BEST MOTIVATION

At some point in your life’s journey, you will come to realize that other people’s lives may not motivate you enough to keep going than your own very life. Developing yourself to be your own motivation will at some point be the factor that might determine if you stay long enough on your life’s goals and dreams in the face of challenges and setbacks.

“You cannot continue throughout your life’s journey to drink from the cup of motivation of your mentors and role models. You have to develop yourself enough and fill yourself enough to be able to motivate yourself and come to an overflow of motivation that other people can drink from and stay motivated.” – CHIBUIKE E. WOGU

This truth helps put you in a state of self-awareness and builds the desire in you to develop yourself to be a role model that other people will want to follow in his steps.

Most people I have interacted with on this topic have always thought it to be such a ‘big shoe’ to wear but while you may be thinking the same, I want to bring you to the understanding that it always seems impossible until it is done.

Being your own best motivation has all to do with persistent and conscious practice of all you have learnt so far in your life’s journey. We must be doers and not only hearers. It is important you understand that doing is never a onetime event it is a continuous process to mastery.

Persistent practice of your life’s lessons in your daily life’s journey does one amazing thing for you, it literally helps you develop a ‘tough skin’ to intelligently face all challenges and setbacks and emerge a better person.

By developing and growing this trait, you begin to develop a well of motivation that will eventually yield to an overflow that others can drink from and stay motivated on their own life’s journeys.

Every successful individual today, who is now a motivation to our world was at some point in their lives drinking from the overflow of motivation of successful individuals before them until they had enough. They understood the importance of being their own motivation and developed themselves until they could come to a point of overflow of motivation where others could drink from and stay motivated.

Jack Canfield once shared a remarkable story about his relationship with his mentor, William Clement Stone. Even before Jack Canfield ever really learnt what goal setting was, William Clement Stone told him to set a goal that was too big that it would blow his mind when he eventually achieves it.

Jack Canfield revealed that at the time he was making $8,000 per year and he set a financial goal to make $100,000 per year. This he did without any strategy to achieve it but he set this ‘big goal’ anyway. He said that the $1 million idea came to him after about 30 days later and it was on a certain book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, which he had written. It occurred to him that by having this book published and if he sold a certain number of the books per quarter of the year; he would make a million that year. He worked on the strength of this motivation and achieved his financial goals and it has always worked for him ever since.1 He has been able to develop an overflow of motivation within himself that people after him can drink from and stay motivated.

Always have in your subconscious that a new world is waiting to be sustained by the strength of the overflow of the motivation you develop within you in other to help them stay motivated on their life’s dreams and goals.