Progress Is a Fuel

Progress is a fuel. When you set a goal, the steps to it are to be celebrated. You build confidence, enthusiasm and motivation. We will take a critical look at each. Let's explore just how crucial advancing can be.

Confidence

When you embark on your journey to success, it is natural to be nervous in the beginning. You have planned how you will get there. The problem you face is that this may be uncharted waters for you; unfamiliar surroundings. The courage to start your travel is there but your confidence may be low. Reaching the first step towards your goal builds your confidence. It reassures your decision to pursue your goal. It helps to realize that you have the necessary skills to continue. Regardless of the size of the step, it is advancement. You are one step closer. Always remain positive and your confidence will continue to grow. Think about a baby learning to walk. When the baby stands on its legs for the first time, confidence increases to try to walk. They are ready to take the first step.

Enthusiasm

Along with gaining confidence, you gain a sense of excitement. You are energized! This gives you the ability to become more imaginative and creative. Your plan becomes more attainable. Progress is contagious. What it does to your attitude is unbelievable. It helps build more confidence which in turn gives you more enthusiasm. You are able to weather the storm of frustration and self-doubt. Let's go back to the baby learning to walk. When they make their first step, they are excited. They will typically fall because their legs are not strong enough. Yet they seem to not get discouraged. They will continue to try and each time they may take one more step than before. They become motivated.

Motivation

When you progress towards your goal, you become motivated. Others will motivate you. You become obsessed with the burning desire to achieve your goal. Progression pushes you to not reflect on setbacks or failures. Even when you attempt to advance and you may fail, failure is not defeat. It is progress. You now know that particular method to get to the next step does not work. It is progress. Your confidence and enthusiasm are not lost because you are able to develop a new way. The baby learning to walk will not be walking freely on their first, second or third attempt. They do not quit. The baby may stand beside a table and use the table to help support them as they walk. They may walk around the table until they are ready to move away from the table. They may do the same with another piece of furniture. Their goal is to walk. They don't let setbacks stop them from reaching their goal. They don't know otherwise. We should learn from that.

Progress is a beautiful process. When you are working towards a goal, the interim milestones are tremendous to your success. As you progress, your confidence grows stronger. You will automatically be more energized. Your enthusiasm will increase. You will become more motivated. All this is possible when you know what you want to do. All this is possible when you are self-discipline. All this is possible when you have the burning desire to achieve. Motivation is the key but success is up to you! Go forth and progress, you will arrive at your destination.

Author's Bio:

Chief Motivational Speaker for The Success Philosophers. Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC. Has over 20 years of experience in management in the Logistics industry. Living with Crohn's disease for the past 11 years. A person that understands that life is too precious to be concerned about what you have no control over; understand what you do control and maximize your efforts in those area(s). You will be surprised at the positive results.

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Caring What People Think Gets You Nowhere, Daring To Be What You Want To Be Is Priceless

To be yourself fully and unremittingly is the most costly thing in the world and all of existence, especially when considering the immediate prestige and approval from others you can seem to get when you conform completely and have the opportunity on top of that to conform completely. The point to that long sentence is, to be the real boss, you must pay the cost as we all must. Some try to escape this fact by completely seeking the approval of others, before considering themselves. Few consider themselves first, only and rationally for their own genuine benefit. The latter who acts for their own genuine benefit as a whole is what I am writing for. The people who want the approval of others first is what I am writing against. To have a genuine approval and understanding of yourself is the first and most important relationship there is, without that, there can be nothing.

Sure, sometimes I type repetitive messages in my writings and preach a lot, but I do not compromise my message for anyone or anything. I believe fully and wholeheartedly in what I am saying without fear or doubt. There are people who are going to say that I am not good enough, but I do not care about them, I only care if I am good enough for me. So, I want to say this: I am creative, not a competitor. So, I am creating for myself, not creating for someone else, and if someone else benefits wonderful, but I am creating what is good for me, then good for others in the same way it is good for me, in that order.

So, sure, genuine individualism and honesty may cost a lot of laughter, criticism and fear within others in the small picture of things. But the big picture long with its eternal values is what counts, not any small picture of foolishness that gets you nowhere except shortsighted. Here, I quote Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi on this concept of what counts.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

No one can hurt you without your permission to paraphrase Gandhi again. But, think about this, the ultimate leader is the ultimate individualist, the ultimate follower is the ultimate failure and fearful person. That is why being a follower is innately undesirable and being a heroic leader is always desirable even in the most undesirable situations. In fact, it is especially desirable in the most undesirable situations because of the fact that a good or great genuine leader can help make things from undesirable to desirable through their leadership and judgement. So, I end by playfully quoting Booker T. Jones and The MG's from Stax/Satellite/Atlantic Records in one of the few songs they did actual lyrics written instead of just instrumentals on:

Everybody loves a winner, but when you lose, you lose alone."

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.

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11 Ways To Prevent Procrastination

I will do it tomorrow. I'll start next week, next month, next year. When I have more time I will do it. When the children are holder, I will have more freedom and I can get started. I will have more money next month and I can make it happen then.

Does any of these words sounds familiar to you? Do you find yourself using these words from time to time? Worst are you using them right now because deep inside you feel it's true. Do You feel it's your reality? Do you know ways to prevent your procrastination?

Procrastination comes in many levels. You can be very productive at work for your boss and be a huge procrastinator at home in your own life or vice versa. Usually the first scenario is the most common. We work hard for a boss because we know we don't have a choice because we will lose our job if we don't. But at home, no one is there to hold us accountable so we get lazy. There are solutions, ways to prevent procrastination

Most people are procrastinators or lazy. (BTW Procrastinator is a nice word that defines lazy) Just look at the amount of successful people vs. the number of people that are not. There are some physical and mental reasons that make us a procrastinator. Physical as in tired, exhausted and mental as in mindset, having a certain perception of a task you have to accomplish. Let's explore how we can fight our procrastination so you can achieve your goals and dreams no matter how big or small they might be. Below is 11 ways to help you prevent procrastination.

The first 2 ways to prevent procrastination are physical:

I strongly believe it starts here. If you are not healthy, you will have less energy to accomplish your tasks and more likely to procrastinate. Start exercising. I don't mean for you to become an athlete but to exercise. Take time to exercise 3-4 times a week. Do some kind of exercise. It could be a walk around the block, a bicycle ride etc. etc. Any type of exercise will boost your energy level.

The next physical way to prevent procrastination is: Look at your eating habit. Do you eat a lot of junk food? About dessert, do you have one every night? Do you have to always finish your dinner plate? Eat smaller meals and less junk if no junk food at all. The more you eat, the more you feel full. The less likely you will feel like doing anything. Don't wait until you are hungry to eat anything. If you wait until you are hungry, you are likely to eat something that is not healthy.

The next 9 ways to prevent procrastination are Mental:

This is how you view the task you need to accomplish. This is the level of urgency you give your to do list. Here's the 9 reasons why you don't complete the tasks you need to. The tasks that will move you towards accomplishing your goals and how to fight it;

Ways to prevent procrastination #1

Unpleasant task: This task is usually perceived as not fun or not enjoyable. These usually are nowhere near as bad to complete as you think. Schedule them first thing when you get up and get them out of the way. (May be give yourself a reward when completed)

Ways to prevent procrastination #2

Indecision: A lot of people don't take the next step because they can make up their mind on what to do. The worst thing to do is to not make a decision. You may make the wrong decision but you become a lot smarter in the process.

Ways to prevent procrastination #3

Fear of Failure: This is probably the biggest one. Especially for those whose goals are to invest in themselves like a business. They lack confidence and the fact they are afraid to face the consequences of a failure.

You feel this way because you are focusing on what will happen if you and when you fail. You have to reverse that. Focus on how you will feel when you succeed. How will that feel, where will you be, who will share it with you? Every time a negative thought comes to your mind, you have to take a step back and re-focus on how you will feel when you succeed.

You may fail at first but it is not your goal that fail but your plan. Just change the plan, never change the goal.

Ways to prevent procrastination #4

Lack Of Interest: When you have absolutely no interest in a task to accomplish, you must reward yourself after you did it. May be your task is to paint your house, may be it is to do the spring cleaning. Whatever it is, reward yourself. May be it is going to your favorite restaurant, may be a weekend at the beach etc. etc.

Ways to prevent procrastination #5

Perfectionism: This happens a lot in my line of work. People want their website to be perfect so it never goes live. May it is an article or a video they are working on and it is never good enough.

Set deadline for yourself to have your task finish and commit to yourself to do it by that date. Do not deviate. Maintain your standard but also realize is that 80% done is better than never having it done.

Ways to prevent procrastination #6

Hostility toward your boss: If I had a nickel for every time this happened to me I would be super rich today. Who likes their boss today... The mindset you want to use here is to find another reason to get that task accomplished so you are now not getting it done because your boss told you to but for something worth doing for. May be you are doing it because it could help you advance your career. May be it's because your co-workers would benefit from it etc. etc. Just find another reason to motivate you to complete the task.

Ways to prevent procrastination #7

Distraction or lack of focus: For some people, it is very hard to be and stay focus. Create a to do list for yourself. Use an A B C system to mark the priority of the tasks that needs to be done. Start with what is more important and go down the list. Commit yourself to not stop your project until finish.

Ways to prevent procrastination #8

Unimportant tasks: The problem with unimportant task is they will become important very soon and a lot harder to handle later. Figure out the cost or time it will take to do it now vs. if you wait until it becomes an important task. Schedule a time to do it and do it. Do not deviate.

Ways to prevent procrastination #9

Environment: We all have life that takes us away from what needs to be done. It can be work, kids, time etc. etc. It is critical that you schedule time for your to do list and when you are in that schedule time, that nothing can distract you so you can be as productive as you can. Leave the emails for later. Don't answer the phone. (if important, they will leave a message) Stay away from social media and if you have kids, come to an agreement with your spouse so he/she will look over your children while you get your things done.

Procrastination is the biggest challenge you will have to face, your worst enemy. Use these 11 ways to prevent procrastination and once you have beaten your own laziness, oops I mean procrastination, nothing will stop you. Yeah, you will stumble a few times on your way to success but when that happens, just wipe yourself off and get right back on the horse.

To your Success,
Ghyslain Lefebvre
Entrepreneur since 2006

Ghyslain Lefebvre in an online business entrepreneur. He started with nothing, no experience on the internet and marketing. Because of his dedication, hard work and desire to succeed, Ghyslain today works full time from home. If you are tired of living paycheck to paycheck, of living in the rat race, or just want to quit your job and earn what you are worth. Visit Ghyslain's website at http://www.fireyourbossthisyear.com/.

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