Motivation: It’s All Up To You

Can you Motivate Someone?

Can you Motivate Someone?

Yes! NO!

Can you Motivate Someone?

The only person you can motivate is YOU!

“Between stimulus and response is our greatest power – the freedom to choose.”

Stephen Covey

Negative Thoughts Since Childhood

• Rock a Bye Baby…

• Jack and Jill….

• Humpty Dumpty….

8 Tips On Motivation8 Tips On Motivation

#1 Choose To Be Happy

How Do You Awake?

Good Morning Lord

Good Lord…….. Morning

Or

characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of

mind.

characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of

mind.

. HappyHappy

Laughter is good for your health

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.

• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

Laughter is good for your health

• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.

• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

Social Benefits of Laughter

• Strengthens relationships • Attracts others to us • Enhances teamwork • Helps defuse conflict • Promotes group bonding

Fordyce Emotions Questionnaire

Based on a sample of 3,050 American adults, the average score (out of 10) is 6.92. The average score on time is happy, 54.13 percent; unhappy, 20.44 percent; and neutral, 25.43 percent.

1Michael W. Fordyce. Adapted from Authentic Happiness, Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York, NY, 2002

#2 Leave Your Comfort Zone

#3 Don’t limit Your Thinking

• I can’t do that!• I don’t know how to do that!• I can’t do math!• I can’t pass college work!• I Never win anything!• I’ll never get that job!• I wish I could play like that

Have You Ever Said?Have You Ever Said?

I promise myself….

To be strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

Optimists’ Club Creed

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every creature I meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Optimists’ Club Creed(Continued)

Can you connect all nine dots with four straight lines

without raising your pencil?

Think outside the box!!!!!

Answer

#4 Set Goals

Smart Goals

• Specific• Measurable• Attainable• Realistic• Tractable

#5 Practice Self-development

Character Strength Worksheet

#6 Dream Big

Fred SmithFred Smith

Susan Boyle

#7 Failure is Never FinalSuccess is Never Ending

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when

they gave up.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when

they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas A. Edison

#8 Finish What You Start

….is the determination to stay focused on results and deadlines until the task or

project is completed.

….is the determination to stay focused on results and deadlines until the task or

project is completed.

Sense of UrgencySense of Urgency

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's

always your choice.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's

always your choice.

Wayne Dyer Wayne Dyer

What lies behind us – and what lies before us are tiny matters –

Compared to what lies within us.

What lies behind us – and what lies before us are tiny matters –

Compared to what lies within us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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