Motivation is a result of three things:
Persistence, Intensity and Direction.
Persistence – Time, how long you do something. Someone who is persistent doesn’t give up towards reaching their goal.
Intensity - How hard you do something. You can’t have a lackluster attitude.
Direction – A goal, what you’re trying to reach.
Without a clear definition of each, that’s when motivation isn’t there.
How to Implement Each Step To Become More Motivated
1. Persistence
- Write down one thing you’re going to do on your calendar the next day towards the goal you’re trying to achieve.
2. Intensity
- Use music that gets you pumped up, and always push yourself to your limits.
3. Direction
- Set a goal for what you want to do, very specific. For example, make $1,000 in the next month freelancing, or lose 10 lbs in one month.
Nobody’s going to hit a home run every single time. For that reason, we need to take steps towards hitting our short term goals while at the same time working for our long term goals
In the long run, the most effective way to make long term, scalable cash is to create a business that requires little maintenance.
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My brother told me he had read that the some of the most successful people (CEOs and the like) get up before 7:00 in the morning. They get more things done this way, and I certainly believe that they would. A few hours to a CEO is a lot, especially when you have a jam packed schedule every day, to the point where you have to have someone else plan it has to mean that you have a lot of stuff to do. When you have a lot of stuff to do, minutes count.
Waking up for me in the past has been immensely difficult o do because I am rather well… lazy. I just don’t like to get up in the morning. I wake up, hit my alarm clock, and go back to sleep. I like waking up whenever I feel like waking up. It’s one of life’s treasures to me. However, this is the most optimal way to be — and so something needs to change.
My goal is to wake up at 7:30 am every day. I’m going to do so by setting my alarm clock on my phone and just “soldiering” it.
That is, getting up without snoozing because a soldier wouldn’t. Or else they’d die. Or something.
I read Steve Pavlina’s How To become an Early Riser, which says to go to sleep when you’re tired, and wake up at a set time every day so your body is “set” to do so.
This is a good challenge for me — a step along the way in my pursuit of perfection.
Everyone should set both realistic goals and ideal goals in order to manifest their desires. When you have a goal, you have a dream. When you have a dream, you have a desire. When you have a desire, you have will.
Here’s one of my goals: Make a million dollars.
How do I reach that goal? I won’t just wake up one day and go, BOOYEA, I’m a millionaire! That is, unless I uhm… win the lottery ( which I’m working on 
) , or something.
How do I get to a million? Make several hundred thousand.
Short term goal: Make $120,000 in a year. I picked $120,000 because that would give me the nice even number goal of $10,000/month.
I don’t think $10,000/mo is a very realistic goal for me right now, so I’ll lower that to something that I feel is do-able, $1,000 a month.
Whether or not I reach that $1,000 a month is not a live or die moment to me, it’s just an indication of where I’m at and where I am going in terms of my goals. If I make $10 the first month, I damn well better pick up the slack if I’m ever going to be on my way to the goal!
However, that won’t mean that I’ll start to slack off if I make $1,200 in my first month. It just means that I’m going to revise my short term goals to reflect what I’ve made. So I’ll say instead of making $1,000 next month, I’ll make $2,000.
That’s the act of progression, and is seen and taught everywhere in everything. For example, weight lifting is progressive — you up the reps and weight as you get stronger, otherwise you don’t get anywhere.
Short term goal: Make $1,000/mo. (increase to $2,000 if I pass the $1,000 mark the first month.)
Long term goal: Make $10,000/mo. (This’ll take a while.)
Thinking small: Make $120,000/yr. (I wonder what color my hair will be.)
Thinking big: Make $1,000,000/yr. (That’s a lot of zeroes.)
Anyone need their dogs walked? 
B = My big brother
L = My little brother
M = Me
L: …coincidentally, the black ranger was black.
M: Yeah… and guess what the yellow ranger was.
L: I dunno, chinese?
B: No, she was viet… her name was like Trang.
L: and what was the green ranger? smart?
M: …and you’d never believe what the white ranger was.
L: yeah, he was white… the buffest one and the leader too.
M: no he wasn’t, the red ranger was.
L: yeah, but he just kinda takes over like the FBI.