Self Help Motivation

Are there multiple roadblocks keeping you from your happiness? If so, Why do you suppose this is? Do you ever find yourself thinking you're not good enough, smart enough, or competent enough to achieve true happiness or create the life you truly desire?

These kinds of thoughts might be the number one roadblock between you and your ideal life.

Repeating these kinds of thoughts cause stress, stress causes exhaustion. Now think about it, when you are exhausted do you have any motivation to get out and do what it takes to create the life you want. Well if you're like most of us, the only thing this kind of pattern creates is apathy.

So what can you do by yourself to create the motivation you need to move forward in your life?

To start with, it's helpful to understand what's causing the pattern in the first place. When you have thoughts such as I'm not good enough, bright enough, lucky enough to ever really get what you want are what many people call limiting beliefs. As young children we develop these limiting beliefs from experiences we have that didn't go the way we wanted or anticipated.

"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them." ~Anthony de Mello

Our Past Does Not Have To Create Our Future

Here's how you can begin the process of developing the motivation you need to stop living in the past and start moving towards the future you desire. To start shifting these painful patterns of thinking, the very first thing you must learn to do is identify them.

From now on, each time something happens that you don't enjoy--at the first hints of any worry or uncertainty, STOP... and use these feelings as a caution bell that it's time to explore them and discover what's within them.

Awareness Creates Conscious Thoughts and New Opportunities

When you discover the truth behind your limiting beliefs you'll find your personal motivators. These motivators will help you plow down any roadblocks that are in your way. To figure this out, dig deep within your limiting beliefs. What's missing that causes you to perpetuate this belief--what "do" you want and need in your life. Once you know, then take actions that will help you start experiencing these things.

These two simple steps will start you down the path towards that future you desire.

If you're ready to learn more simple steps to create the kind of self help motivation you want, and discover other personal growth skills and techniques visit us at http://www.NewAgeSelfHelp.com

Feeling down in the dumps? Read our 25 most favorite self help motivation quotes to keep your spirit uplifted. :)

1. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Brian Litrell

2. "Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

3. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

4. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

5. "Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln

6. "Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn

7. "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." - Henry Drummond

8. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Vaull Starr

9. "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confuscius

10. "Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." - Swami Sivananda

11. "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." - Anonymous

12. "Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind." - Adlin Sinclair

13. "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." - Andrew Carnegie

14. "To move ahead you need to believe in yourself...have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs." - Adlin Sinclair

15. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore

16. "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." - John Maxwell

17. "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight David Eisenhowe

18. "Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do." - Vince Poscente

19. "Successful action tends to become an end in itself" - Eric Hoffer

20. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

21. "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

22. "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved." - Rupert Mudroch

23. "A goal without a date is just a dream." - Milton Erickson

24. "Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something." - Andrew Carnegie

25. "Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation." - Tenzin Gyatso