4 Ways To Stay Motivated in Challenging Times

Unless you’ re still in junior high, you realize that we are living in some challenging times. Challenging times for our business consist of things like: employees not showing up on time or not at all, increased cost of simple things like sugar, re-negotiating real estate leases, and finally getting the right amount of sleep and drinking enough water.

To be honest with you it is difficult to stay motivated by myself. To get up before the sun and paint the smile on my face before I head out to conquer my day.  I need all the help that I get.  I receive a lot of my motivation from my family.  Every week we have a family conference call (we live in different parts of the country).  In this call, we don’t chit-chat, we discuss our challenges and different strategies to overcome our difficulties.

I also receive motivational help from Otis Williams, author of Words of Wisdom. He created a 2 tape audio program called “Staying Motivated In Challenges Times.”  I listen to his tapes every 4 months. Here’s his..

4 Ways To Stay Motivated in Challenging Times

Accept The Challenge

• View challenges as life’s exams.
• Realize that challenges come to test your endurance.
• Accept the challenge and discover your potential.

Control Your Attitude

• Remember attitude is a choice
• Remember your thoughts control your life.
• Remember to feed your attitude positively.

Stay Focused

• Focus on why you have got to make it through.
• Focus on the lesson and grow through the experience
• Focus on the opportunity

Keep The Faith

• Never Ever quit! The situation is not hopeless.
• Be still and know that you are going to make it.
• Visualize your victory.

There is a short poem that I have burned into my memory.  I don’t know who the author was, but I heard it on the audio tape from Otis Williams.  It is one of my motivational war chants to get-up and get-moving, when all I want to do is call-it-a-day and go-to-sleep, have you ever had one of those days?  If you have burn this poem into your memory…

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit!

Life is queer with its twists and its turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When they might have won, had they stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victors cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit!

Exceeding Expectations,

Kendall Matthews, The Barbecue Apostle ™

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