Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever!!!

Article Published: January 23, 2008 at 5:34 pm

Content in: Issue 3, Motivational and Inspirational, This Issue

Author: Nigel Risner

You can achieve everything you have ever wanted to have, experience, or become. The power has and always will be within you, but nothing will happen until you get motivated to make something happen. The following tips and ideas will help you to get (and stay) motivated to change your life and achieve your desires.

1. Let Go of the Past
Before you can create a better future, you must let go of the pains in your past. Failing once does not mean you will fail forever. Learn from your history, but don’t let it stand as an obstacle between you and your dreams.

2. Remember Success
Just as important as learning from and overcoming past failure is recalling past success. It doesn’t matter who you are, you have succeeded at something at sometime in your past. Don’t gloss over these moments. Use them to remind you that you can in fact achieve your goals.

3. Accept the Possibilities
It’s possible. The dreams you hold in your heart but push to the back of your mind are within your reach. Accept the fact that you can create a better life. This will serve as the springboard of belief you need to succeed.

4. Dream the Big Dream
In order for dreams and desires to inspire you to action and achievement, they need to be big. If you don’t get excited about what you have planned for the future, you will never find the inspiration you need to change your life. Powerful dreams can move the soul, and when you dream the big dream, you will be driven to make the compelling picture a tangible reality.

5. Small Steps to Great Success
While the nature of your dreams needs to inspire, you must also recognize the fact that it takes only small steps to create amazing changes. The dream will lead the way, but it won’t come in one giant leap. Small steps, carried out each day, will bring you to the destinations you seek.

6. Impossible to Fail
People are more than capable of creating compelling dreams,but the fear of failure often clouds the path. To avoid this pitfall, imagine that it is impossible to fail. What dreams and desires would you pursue if you were guaranteed success?

7. Write in a journal
A million thoughts may rush through your mind each day, but if you do nothing to capture them, they often disappear as quickly as they came. Take time to write in a journal each week. This will not only help you overcome obstacles you are facing in your life but also help you discover what you really want.

8. Fast Forward
Think ahead. Imagine living your ideal life in ten years. What would you be doing? With whom would you be doing it? What would your life look like on a daily basis? Use the picture of a future life to create goals and desires in the present.

9. The Moment
Remember a time when everything seemed to be going just right? When nothing could get you down? When you thought to yourself, ‘This moment, right now, is what life is all about.’ We all have moments in life when we feel we are at our best, but most people don’t utilise them. Use the special moments in your life to bring to light goals and desires that aresure to fulfil your needs. Learning from and building on these times will help you create magic moments on a daily basis for the rest of your life.

10. Get Specific
In order for you to create lasting change in your life, you have to be super specific about what you want. Vague ideas just won’t cut it. The more specific you make your desires, the easier it will be to act on them. Cloudy hopes create obstacles. You have to know exactly what you want, down to the smallest detail.

Nigel Risner and his inspirational and empowering messages excite audiences throughout the world.

Prior to motivating audiences, he ran a successful finance company, being one of the youngest CEO’s in the City of London at 26 years old.

He is an ex-president of the London Chapter of Professional Speakers Association, and has been voted speaker of the year by the Academy of Chief Executives.

He is also a companion of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

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