Celebrate To Motivate

It's Thursday, February 17, 2011.  My how time flies...whether you're having fun or not!  It's beautiful outside.  The sun is shinning.  I'm just finishing my morning cup of cappuccino and wondering how to get motivated for the day.  Have you noticed:  there's always more to do than we can possibly accomplish in one day.  We work 'till we drop and the next day there's just as much on our 'to-do' list.  FYI:  You will never get it all done.  Each day has it's demands.  The real daily issue is motivation.

MOTIVATE
I read (somewhere) that if you read positive motivational quotes to encourage and empower yourself. You will start feeling better of yourself.  Obviously, if you feel better about yourself you will get it done, pull it off, nail it....you will achieve ...achieve  means 'to bring to a successful conclusion'  and accomplish  means 'to perform fully'. 

Your energy level rises as your outlook on life increases.  That's a fact.  If you feel defeated, sluggish, or unhappy with life, raise/improve the mental image of who you are and what you can do. 

Jim Rohn - The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

John Lubbock - A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Dale Carnegie - Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Denis Waitley - The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

David wrote in Psalm 42:5  "Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God— soon I'll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He's my God.

You must have a sense of success at the end of the day. 

CELEBRATE

Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." This portion from the message Bible reads: This is the very day God acted—let's celebrate and be festive! Salvation now, God. Salvation now! Oh yes, God - a free and full life!

Celebrating increases motivation. You will never celebrate if you wait until you feel like it.  Choose to celebrate!   The Lord made this day and...because He gave me life on this day that He made...I have the right to celebrate! If God acted on this day - I should act, too!

Celebrate: to observe a day or commemorate an event

with ceremonies or festivities -

glorify, honor, applaud, commend. 

The Lord created the day - but it's up to us to rejoice in the day.  Wrap your mind around the fact that you have the choice to rejoice.  Celebrate on purpose. Celebrate something, even if it is small!   Allow yourself to live!  Give yourself permission to have a good life.  The more you exert control over the day - the more reason you find to live.  Celebrate...and you will discover more reason to celebrate.

We have this motivational thing backward!  Publications and qualified speakers inspire us to be motivated in order to accomplish.  They are accomplished motivators!  But...when the session is concluded, the class disbanded, you are home, and life returns to 'normal' - motivation ceases.  Why?  Because there's no action on your part to determine the day.  External motivation alone is short-lived.   God made the day - He acted.  We have a day - we should act. Your action is faith in motion.  That's power.  Rejoice.  Celebrate.

Celebration leads to Motivation!  God is right, as usual.

Celebrate...to Motivate
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