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*** Miserable And Motivated??? Impossible!
I’ll bet you have at least one friend, acquaintance, colleague or spouse that is chronically miserable.
Correct?
Or perhaps, the “friend” above is you…if so, it’s okay to admit to it!
Regardless of whom it is this person has something to complain about every single day. For example, today your colleague may have been ranting and raving (maybe even you, if you carefully look at yourself) over the latest “Somebody Did Me Wrong”. Tomorrow, it will be the weather. The next day, every little ache, pain, and paper cut. Or that they are too tired. They may be angry at the world one day and the next, believe that the world is out to get them!
How can these types of people ever have any positive energy left to be motivated to achieve what they want in life?
Well, the truth is that they can’t due to their lack of self control and self mastery. And, there is nothing that uses up vital energy as quickly as a lack of self control and self mastery. Having used up their vital energies through lack of self control, the emotional, irritable person can not concentrate.
And it gets worse. The miserable, irritable person is not magnetic. He is not admired or loved or fun to be around. And he does not develop those finer qualities that a person of success possesses. He creates a chasm between himself and others. And, therefore is not able to enlist others in helping him to reach his goals and dreams.
In addition, anger, sarcasm and rage weaken a person in this direction. The person that allows himself to get into any of these negative states of mind will eventually cause health problems, career problems, relationship problems, not only for themselves, but for the people they interact with.
If you are like this person, what must you do? You must learn to harness your power of concentration that will lead to self mastery. When your mind can properly concentrate, all the vital energy of every bodily cell is directed into one channel generating a powerful personal influence.
Every one of us, even you, is made up of 10 trillion cells. Each one of these has a center where life and energy are generated and stored up. If this energy is not conserved and controlled, but instead wasted, you can not become more productive and influential.
Remember that the scattered rays of the sun, when focused by a magnifying glass, produce a heat many times greater than the sun’s rays alone. This is also true of your ability to concentrate on positive outcomes. If your attention is not focused you get ordinary results. But center and focus it on your goals, instead of wasting it on useless complaining, and your motivation to achieve will be strong and limitless.
Copyright 2008 by Keith A. Shaw and Mind Body Spirit Central.com, LLC. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, audio or video recording or otherwise – without the written permission of the author and publisher.
Keith A. Shaw, is the President and Owner of Shaw's Karate Institute, LLC http://www.856karate.com and MindBodySpiritCentral, LLC and is an authority on motivation, success, self improvement, fitness and wellness. Keith is a 3rd-degree black belt and has a strong passion for the martial arts as a means to help children, woman and men to achieve black belt excellence in anything they want to accomplish in life. His books and DVDs are available at http://www.www.cafepress.com/MBSCentral. He is the author of "The Power Of Thought", and "The Power Of Concentration" Motivation and Success Systems, and "The Power Of Serenity And Peace" Happiness System. He also authored and produced "The Power Of Qigong" Health And Wellness Systems. He graduated from The College Of New Jersey and Rider University with highest honors.
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