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Motivation gets you going – discipline keeps you growing!

If you want to be more consistent and disciplined in your performance you must become more consistent and disciplined in your growth. Consider these thoughts; 

• Do you have any idea what you need to improve? Journalist and author George Lorimer stated that you have to get every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. In short you must develop yourself to be successful
• It is not good enough to just have purpose, you must be consistent in your progress. You can have ambition and yet not move forward in your life.
• Said another way, your future is dependent upon your personal growth! Your daily growth assures that your future if filled with great possibilities.
• E. M. Gray states that successful people have a habit of doing the things that failures don’t like to do. The truth of the matter is that successful people do not like doing certain things but , their dislike is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
• Do you know how you are supposed to improve? Here are some suggestions:
  • Match you motivation to your personality
  • Start with the simple things
  • Learn patience
  • Value the process and enjoy the journey
• Do you know why you want to keep improving? The how and why will only take you so far. It is the WHY that will keep you motivated long after the rush of enthusiasm wears off. Vince Lombardi stated it best; “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit!”
• The more reasons that you give yourself to grow the more likely you are to follow through.
• In his book The Compound Effect author Darren Hardy writes that the Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small smart choices.
• Author Hardy goes on to write that the rewards are massive the steps in the moment do not feel significant.
• Do you know when you are supposed to improve? The most obvious answer is right this very moment. A wise professor once stated that a life lived for tomorrow will always be a day away from being realized. You will never change your life until you change something that you do daily.
• You need to develop habits and disciplines that act as bridges between goals and accomplishments. Cross that bridge enough times and you will see new habits being formed.
• Ask yourself the question; “What are you doing daily that needs to be changed. Remember a bad habit never goes away by itself. It is an undo-it-yourself project.What are you willing to change today in order to change what you will be doing tomorrow!

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