self motivation

In this rapidly changing and throat slitting competitive world, keeping your presence felt is a work of Hercules. In this tough situation it is evident that lot of times you will feel low or people you make you feel low for various reasons. This is the real tough time and this is when you should keep your cool and should proceed with great calmness. Remember, this kind of situation exposes the difference between a chicken heart and a lion heart. This is the time when self motivation is most important and comes handy. Infact self motivation is one among very less tools that can save you from disaster during hard times.

Even though I am not sure that self motivation is a born quality or not but one can enhance this quality with time. I am listing out some of the points below that could help you building self motivation.

Be honest to yourself: A very important aspect of self motivation is self honesty. I have seen many examples wherein people fall in pit just because of their mistake but they cannot see their mistake. They always blame others for the situation. It is important that you realize your mistake and correct it the next time. If you can identify your problem that’s like your job is half done. Now prepare an action plan to correct it and vow yourself not to repeat it. That will give you an enormous amount of motivation for sure.

Don’t worry about things beyond your control: We come across so many situations which are beyond our own control. In these types of situations you cannot do much, similarly you should not be worried also. You are certainly not at the end of the world. Rather think and analyze the situation carefully and honestly. If you find, you could have done atleast something better to not be in the situation, remember it and apply it in future. If you find after a thorough analysis nothing could have been done from your side then just chill. Yes, just chill. It is possible, you need some practice though. So if you can find that the bad times are just out of your control you will find some motivation and you will ride the stressed period successfully.

Indulge yourself in hobbies: An effective tool for self motivation is hobbies. If you have past time activities that you do, it is really good. When you are in stressed, just do not think about the situation and make yourself engaged with your favorite hobbies, you will see it will give you motivation to continue with your work and you can soothe yourself quite well.

Think positive: Always think positive no matter what the situstion is. When you are in bad moments, whoever mistake it is, just think that it is a learning for you. Learn from it and use that effectively in future.

Set a long term goal: There are lots of things you can do to motivate yourself and not to go deep into depression state. You can have a long term goal set and always work towards achieving it. If you face any situation on the way, just ignore it and think about your goal. Evaluate yourself and see if you are still on correct path or not. Get yourself an ideal personality and try to be like that person. If you have any problem in achieving it in the middle just do away with it and continue working towards achieving your main goal. A goal for sure will give you motivation.

Compare yourself with people: When you are in some unpleasant situation compare yourself with people who are in more troubled situation. That will soothe you and give you energy to come out of your situation. In the other hand if you are in comfort zone everything is going good compare yourself with people who are above you and better than you in some respect. You will get motivation to work hard.

I do not have more to share on the topic. Just remember one proverb, which is my favorite proverb also. “When going gets tough, tough gets going”. To make youself tough and get going in tough situations you need self motivation.

Educational qualification for politicians

Last week during my dinner at a local hotel I met with a group of people who were debating on the “educational qualification for the politicians” topic. Below is the gist.

Everyone know how their politicians are and about their educational background. Same time everyone will be agreed that it is always good to have an educated person in politics rather then an undereducated one. This is for sure that educational qualification does not make a politician or a person great but educational qualification is something which opens up the attitude towards everything and gives a character to a person. Obtaining degrees from aboard not only makes them a qualified person but also makes them qualified to judge the difference between developed nations and our country. They can very well see and compare both the nations and work towards making our country a better place to live. Yes, it is agreed that it is not as easy as it is told in the last couple of sentence but for sure an educated foreign scholar is a better man to handle a country. Atleast they can take better logical decisions because of their wisdom.

In the same time this is what the other group says, “Serving for a country, having a good vision for the country, taking decision for the goodwill of the country, taking the country in a right direction and utilizing the state recourses in a meaningful way for the betterment of the country are essential qualities that constitution expects from those serving public life. Education teaches you to read/write. How much do they teach about above things? Also good education not necessarily means person will take right decision and will be corruption free. If you see majority of scandals or corruption the involved people are engineers, builders, clerks and managers who of course are graduates.

Critics’ voice please.