Motivation and Success Strategies

Procrastination : The Results Killer! By Tony Jeary

Anyone interested in getting better results, becoming more productive and ultimately more successful should probably take an honest look at the problem of procrastination.

Most people think procrastination is just an issue that involves putting things off that can be done later without much of a penalty. That idea just scratches the surface of the procrastination issue and is indicative of the denial people have about it.

Truthfully, procrastination is like an addiction because it is the symptom of a thinking problem and like any other addiction, its difficult to break!

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How to Become What You Want to Be by Michael Masterson

Motivation

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write.”

I was 16 years old when my father said those kind-and-cruel words to me. I never forgot them. The first time I can remember wanting to be a writer, I was 11 or 12 years old. Back then, I had no idea that there was such a thing as copywriting — the kind of writing that would eventually make me a very rich man. I just wanted to be a writer. Any sort of writer.

I’d written a poem for Sister Mary Something at school. My rhyming quatrain (AABB) was titled, pretentiously, “How Do I Know the World Is Real?”

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Entrepreneurship – the Failure Myth By Kevin Kelly

Motivation

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

According to Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) fear of failure is the top reason given in Ireland and worldwide by aspiring entrepreneurs for not starting their own businesses.

NESTA – the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the UK’s largest early stage investor in innovative and creative businesses — found that almost three quarters of people who said they had what they believed was a good business idea were not acting on it because they were afraid of not succeeding.

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February 2009