Staying Motivated

Ever had this rush of adrenaline pumping through your body full of excitement? You have this great idea and now, all you want to do is bring it to life! However, a majority of the time. This rush only lasts for a short amount of time. We look back at our journeys and ideas and think, if I had just continued this and that, I would be loaded right now. It happens to a lot of us! Here are some stories and methods we've used or looked at to keep us motivated and inspired.

1. Top Success Stories To Keep You Motivated

• Howard Schultz - Starbucks founder was turned down 217 times by investors

• JK Rowling - fired as a secretary due to “dilly dallying” on the job for writing about a young boy thats a wizard named Harry Potter

• Walt Disney - went bankrupt too many times and even from failing a cartoon series. Got fired for being accused of laziness and lack of imagination & creative ideas. His life was an unpredictable roller coaster.. then his idea of mickey mouse formed and the rest his history!

• Henry Ford - Started out unsuccessful, he was left broke 5 times before hitting the jackpot of starting Ford Motor Company.

• Albert Einsten - Teachers thought he was mentally handicapped for being unable to speak and read till the age of seven. However he’s changed modern physics and won the Nobel Prize.

2. Top 10 Inspirational Movies

• Pursuit of Happiness

• The Social Network

• Freedom Writers

• Meet The Robinson's

• UP

• Seven Pounds

• Coach Carter

• Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

• The Blind Side

• The Impossible

3. Top 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

• Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

• Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

• The $100 Start Up by Chris Guillebeau

• Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• The Dip by Seth Godin

4. Meditate

No you don’t have to go to yoga or sit criss cross apple sauce in public and hum to yourself. You can simply lay in bed or on a couch, hammock, chair, etc. Just close your eyes for a few minutes and enter a peaceful state of mind. Relaxing with a positive clear mind.

5. Google The Things You Want in Life

Looking at a nice car you’ve dreamed of having one day, or a beautiful place somewhere across the world, or even the body you've always wanted, doesn’t that push you enough? Thinking that, that can be you one day in the future will hit that spark of ambition.

6. Visionboard

For the artsy and creative people this will be enjoyable! Print and cut out all the pieces you’ll want to see in your future; a mansion, a penthouse in one of the most expensive & busy cities, attending to elite events, travelling all over the world, the list could go on. What you visualize in your future attracts the same energy towards you.

7. Have your minute meltdown..

What we forget sometimes is to have a minute to yourself and let out all the anger and emotion. There’s only so much one can handle. We forget we’re human and it’s okay to react to stressful moments to yourself.

8. Quotes

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." —Steve Jobs

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." —Booker T. Washington

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." —Helen Keller

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” — Jill Konrath

9. Celebrities/Entrepreneurs Who Started From The Bottom

• Hilary swank - lived in a trailer park with her single mom

• Jim Carey - at one point had to get a job as a janitor at the age of 15

• Oprah Winfrey - raised and grew in poverty

• Do Won Chang - founder of Forever 21 moved to the U.S. working as a janitor, gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop.

• Chris Gardner - with no educational background or experience he landed a spot in the dean Witter Reynolds training program.

10. Don't Give Up

Backtrack from day one. Why did you start this entire thing? What moved you to making this decision? Did you envision yourself having free time, travelling, and being your own boss? There’s a motive for every decision you make so why stop now? Keep going, one small step at a time beats not making a step forward at all.

We hope that this has sparked an inspired flame in you like it has for us.