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Welcome to BecomeMotivated.com
Congratulations! You have taken the first step to personal success. A lot of people often ask, "How do I become motivated?" This site is dedicated to answering that question, as well as some others.
Some people want to become motivated, others have motivation, but need to know how to stay motivated. Some people are motivated and want to know how to become more successful.
BecomeMotivated.com is for everyone. You will find sections and tips on sales motivation, success, goals, and everything in between.
This site was recently restarted after a short hiatus, but a server crash lost everything, including the back ups. Have no fear, I will not be stopped.
This site will soon be updated and filled with useful tools and articles again to help you become motivated and successful. |
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Apologies First
I would like to get my apology out of the way. After two years of holding this site, an unfortunate series of events caused me to lose the domain. I finally got it back and had it up and running, but before I did a backup, my server crashed and ate all the articles. I apologize to those who used to visit frequently and to those who just started returning.
With that said, I am determined to grow this site again and make it better than ever. Success is always granted to the one who refuses to let obstacles get in his way. Please come back often and don't forget to share us with your other success-minded friends. |
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How Many Times Before You Give Up?
Posted on Saturday, July 26 @ 06:54:12 CDT (3 reads)
Topic: Motivation
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This is probably blasphemy among the motivational crowds, but it is something I want to discuss. It's a lesson I learned long ago. It's about when give up.
When I was younger, I stayed with a friend's family for a short while. My friend's dad was a heck of a guy. He was wise, kind, and gentle as anyone you would ever meet.
He was an avid Checkers player. We would play for hours. Usually, we would get to a point where he would tell me, "there's no way you can win. Do you want to start again?" I'd look at that board, see that he had four kings and I had two with another piece or two and I would laugh. Then he'd get one of my guys, then another.
Every time, I went at it full force, playing out the game until I had none left. I was never willing to give up. I took my lickings, wasted time, and lost 99.9% of the time.
Here is the lesson I eventually learned:
Sometimes, you must surrender. Walk away from that round, gather all your pieces and start fresh. I emphasize the start fresh part. You see, while it might have appeared I was giving up, I wasn't. I was looking for a new way to win each time. I was learning. I returned to the game over and over. Eventually, I got to the point where I could win with frequency.
Life is a lot like checkers. Sometimes bad decisions or poor planning will put us in a position from which we cannot win. At that point, the best thing to do is to take a step back, regroup, plan a new strategy, and then attack our goals once more.
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Overcoming Obstacles
Posted on Friday, April 04 @ 07:34:57 CDT (28 reads)
Topic: Success
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."
~Bruce Barton
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You Never Know Who is Watching
Posted on Saturday, March 15 @ 09:58:22 CDT (47 reads)
Topic: Leadership
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I am going to tell on myself here.
I work in sales for a large national company. Recently, we have seen considerable change in my channel. Besides having over 100% churn for my position in the past 18 months, my manager, his manager, his boss, and his boss have all stepped down or moved to another position. That is four layers of management change all happening at the same time.
My new manager arrived about a month ago. The first meeting with her was not a pleasant experience for me. I went home and told my wife, "I don't know if I can work for this woman." I was sure she was a nice person, but the first impression was not a good one.
Around the water cooler, my coworkers expressed the same concern. None of us knew how to take her. There is always a bit of trepidation when a new manager steps in, but when a sales manager immediately begins talking about firing the whole team if that's what needs to happen, people start looking for new jobs.
Anyway, I have stuck it out. A major reason was because while I found her very abrupt and bordering on rude during our team meetings, our one-on-one meetings were very different experiences. That made it even more difficult to assess the situation.
I have taken on extra projects, put in 12 hour days, and done my best to bring her up to speed on things as she has never been in outside sales before. She is very team-oriented (something we have in common) and I have done my best to bring everyone else onboard. This was not the easiest of tasks considering the poor leadership heretofore fostered a dog-eat-dog environment. Since she moved from 800 miles away, I have also tried to make her feel welcome.
Today (Saturday) is her birthday. Because I wanted her to feel welcome in our town and accepted as part of the existing team, I made sure we did something for her birthday. We collected cash to buy her some gifts and birthday decorations, my wife baked a couple of pecan pies for the team, I arrived an hour early to make a colorful spectacle of her office yesterday, etc.
Anyway, the other night, I was speaking to one of my co-workers who was feeling down about the job and he began speaking candidly. What he said struck me.
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My Basic Philosophy
Posted on Sunday, March 02 @ 11:18:51 CST (36 reads)
Topic: Success
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This may sound odd or unusual, but here is my basic philosophy on life. . .
The world is conspiring to make me successful
I am dead convinced of it. It doesn't matter if the day is bright and sunny or cold and rainy. The world is acting in my best interest. Even those people who appear to be working against me, throwing up roadblocks, telling tales, and despitefully using me. Every single one of them is conspiring to make me successful.
I have no idea what tomorrow holds. I may have plans for it, I may expect certain things to happen, but that truly means nothing. Today is Sunday, I plan on going to work tomorrow, but if I die tonight, then I am wrong. So, always keep in mind we do not know what tomorrow holds in store.
If we do not know what tomorrow holds, then the problems of today should not matter. After all, the rain that pours in March feeds the flowers growing in April.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a writer. I have been writing fiction and poetry since I was seven years old. I continued all the way through my Master's degree, which I received in 1999. In 2000, I took a job with a Fortune 100 company. At that time, I lost sight of my writing goals and started focusing on making it big in business. I concentrated all my time and energy on my career. I did well, too. I went to the President's Club and won numerous awards.
After that, I started feeling empty-- like I was missing something. I hadn't written in a while. Writing was always my stress reliever. So, I started feeling empty and pressured all at the same time. I became dissatisfied with my job. I left and took another one. When I took that job, I was promised Rainbow Stew, but when the waitress came, she slapped down a big bowl of Stone Soup. I soon discovered everything the hiring manager told me about sales figures, market share, etc. was a lie. Now, I was planning on taking a pay cut, but figured I would feel less pressure. When I got in, the pay cut was much larger than anticipated and the stress level was higher than suggested. I stuck it out for a while, but slowly started writing some poetry again.
Then, an offer came for another job. It sounded ideal. When asked about sales levels, success rates, etc. the manager spewed off the numbers of his sales people. Everyone of them except one was above 100%. I took the job and moved my family from Atlanta to Alabama. That was where I wanted to be anyway.
My first week in the job I discovered the team hadn't hit its objective in over a year. Most everybody was struggling, on a performance improvement plan, and looking for another job. In the 18 months I have been here, I have seen 100% attrition. That is, for every slot available to head count, one person has quit. Not only that, but my sales manager left, his boss was demoted to my level then quit, his boss moved to a different division, and his boss went somewhere else! So--four levels above me have all been replaced!
Do I like the job? It's okay. I like sales. But what's important is this-- the job has widened the void within me. It made me want to write more. It made me realize that I must have clarity in purpose. I must focus on the goals I want to achieve, and writing is one of them.
At the end of last year, I wrote another novel and began marketing it. I currently have an agent looking at it. In the meantime, I have another 230 pages completed of a second novel and a good many short stories.
From all this seeming chaos, I have found greater inspiration. I have garnered ideas for stories and novels, gained singleness of purpose, and focus.
I have decided that if I am a victim of anything, it is a conspiracy of the world around me to make me successful. All of these things that may have seemed like downturns to others--all these apparent setbacks--have actually been thrusts forward toward my eventual success.
I invite you, friend, to look at the world around you. Determine what you want from life and focus on that. You will soon see that you are not experiencing roadblocks and obstacles. Instead, you are being hemmed in by these things. Just as banks hem in a river and lead it to its ultimate destination, so too, you are being lead to your ultimate success.
The world is conspiring to make us successful!
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Same Place, Same Time, Same Results, Join the Millions of Others Who Fail to Mas
Posted on Monday, January 07 @ 18:05:38 CST (32 reads)
Topic: Success
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By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Do you want to master success? You probably answered "Of Course!" And maybe you had a few other thoughts about what a dumb question to ask? If most people respond positively to this question, then why is there not more success?
Ninety (90) days from today, tomorrow or any day in the future, 90% of all businesses, business owners or individuals will be in exactly the same place they are today. How do I know this? Because of the lack of continued success and the reluctance to leave the Land of Misery, cross the Seas of Uncertainty and Change to the Land of Success and Opportunity.
The Land of Misery is where over 90% of the people live. They are happy where they are in spite of not having all their dreams and goals realized. To become successful, demands that these individuals leave the complacency of their lives and face the uncertainty and change necessary to realize their dreams and goals.
Earlier this week, I was reviewing some progress with a new car salesman who told me he had a bad month, but then blamed his poor performance on deals not going through, poor credit, management, etc. Never did he consider that he was responsible because he was not out networking, finding qualified prospects to overcome these obstacles.
Of course, he had the key to success through his personal growth action plan, but had returned to his past behaviors of spraying and praying his actions. For it is much easier to return to what we know to be true even if it does not work, then forging forward doing what we have never done before. One of the greatest Ah-Ha's is in this quote from the Snoopy comic strip.
I met the enemy and he is me.
For you are the why you are where you are. When you become proactive, you can turn your results around and start moving toward all of that opportunity and master success. However, as always, choice is an action that only you can take.
Become one of the few who realize success and not one of the many who have yet to secure real success through success coaching
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14 Days to a New YOU!
Posted on Monday, January 07 @ 17:37:16 CST (47 reads)
Topic: Goals
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We've all heard the maxim "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Who knows, maybe that's true. I have my doubts, but my dog is olny three years old. If he makes it another six, I may experiment with him. Fortunately, we are not dogs. We're people. As such, we have the ability to reason. With that comes the ability to learn, grow, and change.
There is only one reason why people don't change...because they don't want to. Regardless of your age, habit, intelligence, or anything else, you can change if you want to change. Consider the countless men and women in Alcoholics Anonymous or other similar programs.
Our minds are impressionable.
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The Power of Belief
Posted on Monday, December 24 @ 07:11:16 CST (34 reads)
Topic: Success
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Roughly two thousand years ago Jesus promised in the book of Matthew, "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Throughout the years, men like Napoleon Hill and Claude M. Bristol have expounded on this idea.
Whatever you hope to gain or accomplish, you must first believe it is possible.
As social creatures, we all meet various types of people. We know the happy-go-lucky people and the doomsayers. Reflect on the people you know. How many doomsayers do you know that are successful and remain that way? Probably not many. Their belief that doom and gloom will follow them all the days of their lives manifests itself as a fact for them. They cannot succeed because they believe something will prevent them from it. This may not stop every doomsayer from trying, but even when they get there, they will continue to inject negative belief into the situation until that negative image arrives.
Then you must believe it is finished.
Successful people not only believe they will be successful, but they also focus on the finished project as if it is already done. They look at a blank sheet of paper and see the black ink of a novel written across the pages. They focus on how the cover looks sitting on the bookstore shelf and how the clerks can barely keep them in stock. They believe it is possible, they believe all the words are already there, and then they expose them.
Finally, you must act on your belief (faith).
Once the novelist mentioned above sees his finished project, he moves on to the final step, exposing the words for others to see. This is both the easiest and the most difficult step. It is simple because he believes the hard part--the creating--has already been accomplished. It is difficult solely because it requires action. It requires he sit down and begin typing. The first line of any novel is the hardest. Once he gets past that, his dream will come to pass.
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This is the Day -- Christian Thought
Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 09:12:30 CST (64 reads)
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This is the day the LORD has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it because I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
People have different belief systems, but I put my confidence in God. I believe that all things work to the good of those that trust Him. Believing that, it becomes much easier to cope with the setbacks life often hands out. I don't always know the reasons obstacles are placed in my path. Sometimes I cannot see the blessing until months or years later. Some, I am still trying to figure out. The point is, Faith helps me to maintain a positive mental attitude.
There is absolutely no reason for a Christian to have anything BUT a positive attitude. As Christians, we know we've won in the end. Everything between here and there is simply details.
If you are a Christian, I encourage you to rejoice each day. Know that no matter what happens, you've already won. Know that no matter what you face, you will overcome it and be doubly blessed if you keep your faith in God. Remember Job. He lost everything, but gained twice as much when the trial was over.
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Thanksgiving Weekend
Posted on Friday, November 23 @ 15:57:13 CST (51 reads)
Topic: Success
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This is just a thought, but I believe it is true. With it being Thanksgiving Day weekend, I want to share it.
One of the surest ways to receive more is to be thankful for what you have already received.
Our lives often lead us to forget or overlook the blessings God has bestowed upon us. If we are not happy with those good gifts He's given us, why should He bother with more? Have you ever had a friend that--no matter what you did for him or her--it was never enough? I think everyone has. If you're like most people, you eventually get tired of giving and ask yourself, "What's the use?" I believe the same holds true for God.
So as we enter the Holiday season, count your blessings every day. You'll be surprised at how much goodness is really in your life.
--Lane Alan Cobl
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Paying for Success
Posted on Wednesday, November 21 @ 19:03:54 CST (48 reads)
Topic: Success
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Are you motivated? Are you ready for your piece of pie? Are you ready to pay for your success?
How much will you pay for your success? When will you begin making your payments? Success has never come free to anyone. Riches may have been passed down from father to son, but success has never been handed down. Success always has a price tag dangling form its edge and the price changes depending upon who is looking at it.
Just like anything else, some people are willing to pay more for success than the tag demands. They will sacrifice self, family, and other things in hope of obtaining it. When it is all said and done, though, they soon discover they paid a high price for a tag and little more.
When bargaining for success, you must ask yourself the following questions:
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