In this article, we share with you the best suggestions and techniques for motivation and development that we have compiled from Steve Chandler’s books.
- The harder you push yourself, the easier life becomes for you. On the contrary, the more relaxed and free you are, the harder life becomes for you.
- Once I discovered that accepting responsibility for the problem also gave me new strength to solve it, I was liberated… When we see ourselves as victims of our problems, we lose our power to resolve them. When we explain that the source of the problem lies outside of us, we also turn off our creativity. However, once we say ‘the problem is I am myself’, a great power shift from outside to us. That’s when we become the solution ourselves.
- Whatever it is that worries you, you should definitely do something about it; You should never think. Do not be afraid to take action; What you will do maybe something very small and easy, as long as you take action. Even the smallest actions have the power to start to banish your anxiety… In the future, whenever you worry about anything, ask yourself: Right now, what’s the smallest thing I can do about it? Then do what you think.
- If you don’t listen, watch or read the news from time to time, you will find that your optimism about life increases. You feel the energy rise within you.
- Whenever I am happy, I also notice happiness in others. Whenever I am kind, I find that others are also kind. Whenever I am full of energy and hope, I see opportunities all around me.
- It has been proven that problems such as amnesia and mental stagnation, which we believe to be caused by aging, are only the result of not using the human brain. The brain is similar to your arm muscles; If you use it, it gets stronger and faster, if you don’t, it weakens and reacts slowly.
- Pessimists always think ‘all or nothing. His thoughts are always in catastrophic absolutes (live or die). They always tend to do things perfectly or not at all… Pessimists always use their imaginations to visualize the worst that could happen; then they argue how hopeless those scenarios are and conclude that there is no reason to take action. This is why pessimism always leads to passivity.
- The key to self-creation is in your desire to do even the smallest things, but to do them right now. Self-creation is not an all-or-nothing game; this is an ever-evolving effort. A little touch in that area, a little improvement there, makes that day great and thus your whole life. Today is a microcosm of your entire life. It is a miniature example of your entire life… Our self-motivation stems from the importance and meaning we attach to today.
- The trick to the game is to keep the motivation constant. This is essential so that you can constantly feed your soul with the optimistic thoughts that you always want to live in accordance with them. Whenever you see any thought, sentence, or paragraph that opens your mind, you must catch it like a butterfly collector and then release it into the field of your own dreams.
- If you want to increase your motivation, shift your inspiration to another person. Show him his own strengths. Encourage and support him. Guide him to create himself. Then watch what he will do for you.
- Unexpectedly big bucks come in exchange for unexpectedly high levels of service. The way you can serve people unexpectedly throughout your life is to ask yourself: What are they waiting for? Once you have made the answer to this question clear, you should also ask the following question: What can I do that they don’t expect?
- What we most need to learn is not knowledge, but skill.
- One of the ways to facilitate self-motivation is to pretend you are the laziest person on earth. When you accept from the beginning that you will do the task in front of you slowly and lazily, it will no longer be scary or scary for you to start it.
- Most people are shocked to learn that they get so little of what they want out of life only because their primary goal is so small and so uncertain. Goals that are too small and too vague have no power. If it does not provoke your imagination, it is impossible to achieve your main goal. The way to really increase motivation is to set a big, specific, and powerful goal.
- If people focus on one goal, they achieve amazing things… They spend all day thinking about how to make their thoughts useful. What will help me achieve my goal? Given my purpose in life, how can I benefit from it?
- I can realize any picture my mind sends to my brain of who I am and what I can achieve. When an opportunity arises to realize the picture I envision, I take action and do it. This comes very naturally to me. The sense of self is destiny.
There’s a huge difference between genuine determination and just trying to get something done. Rethink the difference between life and death. - When you watch television, you watch other people do what they love to do for a living. They are on the best side of the screen; because they are having fun. You are just passively watching them having fun. They are making money, you are paying money.
- If there is no love, there is no money… What do I love to do for people? How can I serve more people? Wealth will be the result of all this.
- Fear comes from an exaggerated focus on oneself.
- If I change my mind, I also change my perception of the world around me and its problems…. Your mind, your soul, your heart, your life, your brain… All this complex structure works in the same way; wait for the gear in your mind to change to initiate the transition. Because when you change your mind, the whole world will change with you.
- A warrior does not have to know what to do. Nor does a warrior have to know how to do anything. A warrior simply chooses to do… Make time for what you choose to do.
- When the fear of death disappears, we experience the death of fear.
- The problem with procrastination is that no start is made. If a start is made, there is no such thing as procrastination.
- Our feelings, attitudes, and thoughts are always determined by the way we perceive something. If we could see that it is within our power to change perceptions, we would be free to create a day however we want.
- The biggest transformations I’ve seen have occurred when people stopped associating fear with money, self-worth with money, and armed against scarcity and won the war of wealth (it’s an internal war) forever.
- Notice how much energy the unfinished business in your life takes from you. Look at how much it consumes you… When you finish a job and pack it away, your life energy doesn’t decrease, it increases. After completion, you become very lively and cheerful. It’s a wonderful feeling.
- What you have to do is dance with life, not speed up and get ahead of life. Those who compete with life and get ahead of its crash to the ground on the dance floor. They live in their own future, and this is where the fear lives. But when you slow down and master this moment, there is no more fear.
- It’s not really the fear of failure that keeps us from trying exciting things. It is the fear of being exposed to our failure. Fear of being seen as a failure.
- Don’t create a year for yourself, create a day. Create the perfect day in your mind and live it. The year is already taking care of itself. Your life too.
- The better you know what motivates you, the easier it will be to motivate yourself… Commit yourself to notice anything that inspires you, starting now. This is your control panel. Those buttons also activate your motivational energy… The better you learn how you work, the easier it will be to motivate yourself.
- Whatever goal you want to reach, if you are happy, it will be ten times easier to reach.
- Concentrate all your attention on what you desire; You will see it happen eventually.
- You cannot achieve anything that you cannot imagine yourself doing.
- The best gift you can give to others is to get your own life on track.
- Never take the word no as an answer. Consider that it is always a question. Recognize that the word no is used instead of the question: Can’t you be more creative than that?
- Here’s another stimulant you should only use as a mental tool. Take one of the goals you set and double it. Or three times. Or tenfold. Then seriously ask yourself how you can achieve this new goal.
- No matter what kind of problem you face, the most self-motivating exercise I know is to say to yourself right away; The problem is, I’m actually myself. Because once you think you are the problem, you realize that you are the solution.
- When I need to tackle something, face something, or create a bold plan of action, I take long walks. When I walk long enough and long enough distances, I always think of a solution. Thus, I tend toward the most creative course of action.
- The world is like your shadow on a sunny day. Move, see what your shadow will do. Of course, he will move with you!
- Knowing what to do and why to do it will give you the energy you need to motivate yourself. Not knowing your purpose will also take away your existing energy and creativity… Most people cannot create something magnificent in their lifetime; because he is busy doing too many things at once.
- Making lists of your goals and objectives is a powerful motivator. It is important to prepare mentally for the outcome you want to get to a meeting you attend; but if you put them in writing, you will feel even stronger. When you write something down, you inscribe it more firmly in your brain. Whatever excites you in life, you must write them in your own handwriting. If you become a productive and expressive list writer, you will also learn how to motivate yourself with your own writing.
- Whatever you look at, whatever you turn to, will grow in your life. Whatever you ignore will be left behind.
My ritual to attempt self-motivation is walking. Many times in my life I have had problems that never seemed to be resolved; my ritual every time was to take that problem and walk for a long time. This walk sometimes took hours. But every time, without exception, as I kept walking, a solution came to my mind from which I did not know. - Each of us tends to look at the challenges we face within the box. He looks at what we have done in the past and puts it before our eyes; then we try to visualize what we call ‘the future by looking at it. However, this approach limits our own future. The future we can achieve with this restricted view may at best be a ‘new and better past’.
- Pour the thought you want to remember into a melody in your brain; so he can never get out of there again. Start seeing these self-motivating thoughts as if they were songs. You can find ways to reconstruct these thoughts in a way that reminds you over and over until you can’t get them out of your mind. This is how our belief systems are restructured to suit our goals.
- Whatever you need to do, whether it’s a big project at work or a big clean at home, turning it into a game will always create greater energy and motivation within you.
- If you refuse to cultivate happiness within you, you will never be able to do extraordinary service to others; You will never find the energy to create yourself the way you want. There is never a better goal than knowing that on your deathbed you are living your real-life and doing whatever it takes to make you happy.
- Most people are discouraged when they take two steps forward and then one step back. They think they have failed; They believe they have lost the game. Yet it is not so at all. They just kept up with the natural rhythm of progress. Once you understand this rhythm, you can engage in harmonious work with it instead of needlessly bickering with it. You can better plan the regeneration.
- Get used to being alert the moment you live in it. Be as conscious of this hour as possible. Don’t live in the past (if you don’t like being guilty, of course) or live in the future (if you don’t like fear); focus all your attention on the day you live (if you love happiness).
- Think about the irony! People get desperate in the face of an opportunity! Opportunities weaken them! Because instead of seizing the opportunity and creating something great, they react negatively. They react with caution. They want to be safe. They are afraid of making mistakes. They freeze as they try to decide what to do with the opportunity that comes their way.
- Use your own comfort zone only for relaxation; not to live in it all the time. Use that area consciously to rest and replenish your energy as you mentally prepare yourself for the next challenge… If instead you set your comfort zone as a permanent living environment and don’t step out of it, your comfort zone is, as the rock singer Sting said, yours. It will become the ‘cage of your soul’. Choose your freedom; fly away from that cage.
- The closer you get to doing what you love, the sooner people want to be with you, to achieve what you do; because people really want to pay for products that are produced and presented with love.
- If you have no expectations, only new adventures await you. Constant surprise. What a pleasant surprise if your loved one does something nice for you. If she says something nice and you don’t expect anything, you will experience sheer joy.
- I would like to ‘do it yourself; But don’t fall into a pitiful situation by saying, ‘I don’t know how to do it. This is absolutely wrong. The truth is that you don’t want that yet. ‘Not wanting yet’ is not a bad thing. You can’t want everything in life. You have to choose; but only when you’re ready. You’ll understand when you’re ready.
- Who I am in my own mind determines what I do throughout the day. So if I want to be able to do bigger, better things, I need to start with my self-concept. It’s about how I see myself. If I want to achieve more in this world, I have to grow it too.
- The ‘decision’ is made by itself while you are on the move… Taking action opens the mind to such change. Let your instincts decide for you. It allows you to trust yourself and not to waste time and energy trying to make decisions all day.
- You do not react to life; let life react to you. If you’re always the one to make the first move, you’d be amazed at how many keys you bring to life.
- The most glorious aspect of effective dreaming is not achieving the goal. It is the effect that goal pursuit has on the dreamer. Let alone truly achieve your dreams, simply chasing them will reveal you’re true identity.
- Zen monks have a ‘laughter meditation’ in which they sit in a circle and prepare to laugh. At a certain hour, the teacher plays the gong and all the monks started laughing. It is imperative that they laugh, whether they want it or not. But before long, laughter takes on a contagious quality. A little while later, all the monks burst into laughter and laughter.
- Big thoughts often come to mind while bathing; because often, the only time we can be completely alone during the day is when we take a bath. No television, no movies, no traffic, no family, no chattering pets. It is the only time we have no factor that can keep our minds from conversing with themselves.
- People are constantly in search of energy; because they have so much to do. They seek energy, but they miss the point to look for; aim! Having a purpose in life brings energy.
- Most people can’t start what they’re going to do; because he thinks about the whole thing. However, thinking about doing all the work quickly creates a lot of pressure and they think they can’t start it now.
- Do poorly; do it slowly; make it terrible; do whatever you have to do, but do it!
- Creativity comes from doing research. What do I want to create right now? What do I want to produce? How can I initiate an action? Because doing research always creates the researcher, your highest, most creative self. Without research, you become a victim.
- Ask yourself if what you are about to do is loving, creative, and beneficial to your life. If the answer is yes, don’t stop if the answer is no, change your route.
- Fear is the absence of love. If I’m afraid to speak in public, it’s because I don’t like speaking in public yet… If there is enough love, there will be no fear.
- The human brain is a magic computer. When we send him something inspiring, he sends us energy. But if we send him something depressing or negative, it will bring us down. At the root of all this is the following; We are the sender.
- We are stronger and wiser when tough times pass – and they always do. That’s why the question I ask myself is; It’s not a question of ‘how am I going to endure this’ but ‘how am I going to use it.
- In what people say, there are many hidden opportunities; but if my mind is in the future, I don’t hear any of that. I say goodbye to wealth, I say goodbye to that person, he goes away and it’s over.
- Write down 10 things you will do in your life if you have no fear. Then do one of them… You can replace all fears with action. Do not be afraid, act!”
Steve Chandler
60 Effective Self-Motivation Techniques to Boost Your Motivational Power
References:
- Steve Chandler – 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
- Steve Chandler – 100 Tips for Personal Success
