What Motivates You? Is Your Motivation From Within?
I've often heard people say that “So-and-So did not motivate me” or that the presentation did not motivate them to take action. These expressions would suggest that someone or something external is responsible for their motivation. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Effective motivation comes from within! You can be encouraged by others; you can be moved to take action; you may even become excited by a dynamic speaker or presentation, but in the long run these are only temporary. How does this affect your online business? What motivated you to start your online business? What motivates you to stay in business? You have to be your own motivator; you must be convinced that what you are doing harmonizes with your deep-seated reason for being in business and will fulfill your goals or your purpose for your business.
During my years in Direct Sales, I built a team of like-minded women (and one man) who wanted to own their own businesses. Many times women attended dynamic presentations of the Marketing Plan as my guest, and many times one of my guests would become extremely excited about the possibilities presented, which were always presented in a legitimate, practical way. Many of these women would impulsively make the decision to start their business but did nothing further following the meeting, or started and in short time stopped working in their business. They realized that although the possibilities for making money, enjoy flexibility and being their own boss exist, it takes hard work to see results, and it was more work than they were prepared to do. Their motivation was not from within but they were just led on a temporary wave of excitement.
Like a fire that blazes quickly but goes out from lack of good, solid wood to keep it ablaze, if we are not motivated from within we will fail to experience success in our online business, because as sure as night follows day, we will have discouraging moments and experience challenges. Our inner motivation is what will keep us working to overcome these times.
Do you agree? What keeps you motivated on those days when nothing seems to be going right? Please share your thoughts.
I agree! Motivation must come from within to be lasting. I do believe it can be sparked from without, however. Sometimes we need that extra spark from another to relight our motivation flame!
1Valuable info. Lucky me I found your site by accident, I bookmarked it.
2I love your choice of word, Kat. It can be ‘sparked’ from without and that the challenge many of us online marketers face. We get the spark but we must keep stoking the fire with our inner motivation to keep the spark alive. And you will agree, it’s not always easy, is it?
Thank you for reading and leaving your thoughtful comments 🙂
3Best regards,
Yvonne
I’m so glad you found my website and found the information valuable. Thanks for leaving your comments.
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5Thanks for leaving your comment, Dorothy.
6Loving the information on this website , you have done great job on the posts .
7Thanks for stopping by, Evelynn. Great to have you visit and leave your comment. I appreciate you. We definitely need to be motivated to go above and beyond challenges to make having a business online a success. What’s your experience? Have you been online for a while? I’d love to learn more about you.
Yvonne
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