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How to Get and Stay Motivated

By Grant Cardone (summary by Jeffrey Bush)

  • If you’re not motivated, you’re not going to get up and take action.
  • No one can tell you what you are capable of, only you know your true potential, so
    work towards it.
  • Shoot for the extra ordinary, not just the ordinary.
  • Do what others are not willing to do.
  • Be willing to fail.
  • Be unique . Be set apart by your actions and attitudes. Don’t try to be like everyone
    else, be different.
  • Do things that push you and challenge you. Most people do the easy things,
    therefore they are not motivated.
  • Give more than is expected of you. Don’t worry about people taking advantage, you
    will actually receive much more by giving more.
  • Surround yourself by winners. Get a mastermind group. Be around people that
    stretch you and become fuel for your dreams.
  • Read one book a week. The average American reads one book per year. If you want
    to separate yourself and reach your full potential, aim to read one book a week.
  • Cut out the negative people in your life. Reach up, not sideways or down, or you will
    kill your dreams and motivation.
  • Stay uncomfortable. Your discomfort is an indication that you are pushing through
    something.
  • Do things you’re scared to do. It will give you more confidence, boldness, and
    motivation.
  • Motivation isn’t something that you go and fill up on, you have to refuel yourself. Do
    things you are afraid of, and you will be refueling.
  • Surround yourself with positive reminders. Great people create their own
    environment. Surround yourself with positive messages and you will be positive and
    stay motivated.
  • Avoid people that refuse to accept responsibility in their life.
  • Throw the concept of balance out the window and seek to be exceptional. Seek to
    be exceptional in every area of your life.
  • Look to control time and not manage time.
  • Make quality time for your family every day. Don’t look for the time, make it.
  • Use and keep a full calendar.
  • Go to sleep early at night. If you stay up too late, you likely waste time or take in junk
    from TV that you do not need.
  • Get things done before the deadline. People that wait until the deadline usually don’t
    accomplish as much. It will motivate you to beat the deadlines.
  • Have a daily battle plan – write a to-do list for every day. Let everyone else just show
    up for work, but you show up with a daily battle plan, and you’ll accomplish more
    and be more motivated.
  • Be the most professionally, best dressed person in the room. Motivation is an inside
    job, so don’t take shortcuts on how you dress. Don’t worry how everyone else
    dresses.
  • Take enough time off that you are tired of taking off. Don’t go away for two days,
    take the amount of time you need until you are fired back up and can’t wait to go
    back to work.
  • Avoid drama TV and drama radio. You do not need the negative drama influence in
    your life, so get it out. Most news channels are not really giving news rather giving
    opinions and drama.
  • Look for an opportunity to help someone every day. Each person and circumstance
    will be different, but look for new opportunities every day. When you seek to help
    someone else, you will end up being energized and motivated.
  • You need to get a little bit of exercise every day. The hardest thing about exercise is
    getting started, but once you do, it will motivate you.
  • Eat healthy foods you can afford, and it will affect the way you feel.
  • Be energetic, whether you feel like it or not. It doesn’t matter if you are in your
    groove; force yourself to be energetic.
  • Take a power nap. Doesn’t matter what others think, if a nap will help you, then do it.
  • Listen to some music that will energize you. You don’t have to listen all day, but do
    listen.
  • Stop saying no to everything and start saying yes. You don’t need to think about it or
    get back to someone, say yes, even if you are not comfortable or enjoy it. You might
    find that you like new foods and new hobbies if you will just learn to say yes more
    often.
  • When people say things cannot be done, be deaf towards it. You will most certainly
    hear negative news, but be deaf towards the naysayers.
  • Be the originator of news instead of the receiver of news. Make news instead of
    watching it.
  • Become the expert in your space, be the person that people go to in your area of
    expertise.
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Start With Why Book Review by Jeff Bush

By Simon Sinek

  • There are leaders and those that lead. Leaders hold influence and inspire others.
  • 80% of people say they do not have their dream job. 
  • There’s only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or inspire it.
  • Most companies do not know why their customers are their customers, they erroneously think it’s because they have better quality. 
  • Every company knows what they do, that is easy to detect. Some companies have figured out the how. Very few companies have figured out the why – their purpose and belief, the reason they exist.
  • Every company or individual that is successful works from the inside out, they have figured out why they do what they do.
  • What a company does is obvious but the why is the real success.
  • People do not buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
  • Knowing your why is not the only way to be successful, but it is the only way to maintain a lasting success.
  • When your why goes fuzzy it is much harder to maintain the growth, loyalty and inspiration that gave your original success.
  • Detecting your why will help others that have the same feeling. 
  • A failure to communicate your why only causes frustration.
  • Great leaders start with the heart before the mind, they start with the why.
  • When a company does not know their why, it is impossible for the outside world to understand it.
  • Everything you say and do comes from your why. Your why is a belief. 
  • When a salesman believes in what he’s selling, there will be more sales. 
  • If you know the why, you’ll know what decisions to make. 
  • Trust is a feeling, not a rational experience. 
  • Leading is not the same as being a leader. 
  • Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire people who are already motivated and equip them.