Get Motivated!

- Bob Proctor

A lot of people refer to me as a motivation

speaker. I never think of myself that way. I think
more of myself as a teacher, an educator, helping
people understand how their mind functions and
how to improve the quality of their life.
Why would we have to get someone to motivate
us? Well, I guess we do because we don't motivate
ourself.
How do you motivate yourself? You motivate
yourself by having an idea that is lodged in your mind
that you're emotionally involved in, that you want to
do, that you want to accomplish, that you wanna get,
that you have never done before. If you lack
motivation, you lack life.
See, motivation is that mental state that gets you
and up and gets you going. You become motivated.
I am a motivated person. No one has to wind my
stem. I get it going myself the minute I open my eyes
because I've got so many things to do. I don't have
time just to sit around and play games. I have never
gone into a puzzle on my phone in my life. I don't
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play games on my phone. I don't wanna play games
with life. I wanna turn life into something that is
really rich and rewarding. And if you're gonna do
that, you've gotta be motivated.
Well, you'll be motivated when you make up your
mind that you are going to build an idea and then
you're gonna execute that idea. You're gonna get the
idea in your mind and you'll say, "I'm gonna do this."
Now, I'm gonna let you in on a secret. If this idea is
designed to help somebody else improve the quality
of their life, you'll get double good out of it, because
when you help them, you've helped yourself.
Get motivated. Build a big picture in your mind and
say, "I am going to do this. "Come hell or high water,
I am going to do this." And turn it into fun. And, bang,
every day when you get up, you move right into
action on it.
When you see somebody dragging themselves
around, they lack motivation. But you know what
they really like is a big idea. Van Gogh was asked how
he did such beautiful work. He said, "I dream my
painting and then I paint my dream." Van Gogh was
motivated. Get a big idea. Go execute it.
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