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Motivation Tips

Give Yourself Motivation With Rewards
By:Lisa Page

Laziness is the worst possible motivator for failure. By nature, anyone just getting starting with a home business is sure to have laziness in them. The best way to change laziness is motivation with rewards. You have to set up little checkpoint rewards(motivation) along the way to reach your goals. Checkpoints that reward you somehow are the best motivators to keep you going. With most people, all they need is a little money to motivate them.

It's very important to give yourself something back for all the work you put in to your home business. If you don't give yourself anything back, working at home can become very discouraging as well. Give yourself some motivator money. The best motivator do work everyday is a simple reward. Giving yourself a reward is the best possible way to motivate any lazy person.

If you give yourself little checkpoints with rewards you can have something to look forward to doing. To me, a checkpoint is everyday when I accomplish everything I needed to finish. Always working and giving nothing back to yourself as a reward is a great recipe for disaster. I see this all too often with new home business owners. They get sick of working because they don't have free time, nor the money to do anything fun.

Rewarding yourself can turn your motivation in to a daily routine. That's how you become successful working at home. A daily routine has to be created and followed through everyday, no matter how lazy you are at the time. Laziness is one thing; but not having a daily routine is another. A daily routine can actually show you the road to success. Putting you daily routine onto a list can really make a huge difference in the right direction.

A daily routine list can be very effective. When you write down your daily tasks onto a piece of paper there is no guessing. You don't have to say, "What do I do today?" You have it all right there in black and white. Things become easier when you see what you have to do to complete your daily tasks. That's why a daily routine/checklist is so important. Something about the human mind that doesn't make your goals so impossible to reach when you can see them. Maybe they become more real when the list is not just in your head. This daily routine/checklist has worked for me through the years like a dream.

This checklist is nothing without any rewards though. A great reward at the end of the day, can give even the laziest person some motivation. I have a huge love for chocolate and it doesn't take much to keep me happy. At the end of my daily checklist I give myself a reward. The last step on my list is to go grab a hot chocolate at my favorite diner. It's a very small reward compared to most people's expectations. But, it's enough to keep me going. It's important to give yourself a reward only if you do everything else on your checklist first. That's why your reward should be the last thing on the list. Don't give yourself a reward, if you didn't earn it.

Your reward could be beer. I know most of my readers are men and I know how much men love their beer. The important thing is to make your reward small, daily, and enough to keep you going for the next day's list. It has to be your constant motivator. As the days go by and you make more money; give yourself better daily rewards once and a while. With time, you won't have to bribe yourself with huge rewards, because your daily routine has become habit anyway.

I usually make my daily routine list 3-6 times a week, as some days I do the same things I did the day before. I usually write my list the night before my day starts. This way I know what needs to be done the following day.

The fact of matter is; I can't help anyone's laziness habits. But, I can show you how to break all your bad or lazy habits. The power of the mind is very underestimated. You have to want to change. Once you feel the need for change, you will open roads to success that you never saw before. Overcoming laziness can be very difficult if it is in your daily routine already. Get off the coach and make your daily routine/checklist list. Don't forget to give yourself a reward for completing your daily list.

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