What Motivates You?

Its Small Business Week. 

What motivates you in your business and personal life to get things done? 

I think we can all agree that constant, continuous motivation is sometimes hard to maintain.  The times in my life when I get the most done are also the times in my life when I ma the most busy.  Those times when others are saying ‘How can you possibly be DOING all this’.  Well, that’s how it used to be anyway.  I used to take great pride in doing too much.  Right now, though, I am revisiting those times in my mind to see what I need to bring forward - you know capture a little bit of that over achievement and use it to my advantage. 

I feel I have been languishing a bit in the land of unemployment.  Sure, I have set seom goals and achieved them, but when I was working I used to dream of a time when I could have whole days to achieve my goals.  I’d work out two hours a day, clean the house, start a business, etc.  Instead the day flys by and I have not crossed much off the ole list.  What gives?

So I am trying not to bash myself and instead am looking at things objectively. 

• I am also taking note on how others motivate themselves. 
• I am looking at how I schedule my days to see what I can rearrange in order to stop sabotaging my best laid plans. 
• I am choosing a few key items and have found someone to be accountable to in the blogosphere.

It is a different tactic for me since I am more familiar with saying mean things to myself in order to get action.  Recently I have determined that that only works for so long AND is not that much fun.  Plus, I’d never do that to a friend and expect lasting change.  it takes a lot of energy to continue yelling at yourself to get things done!

I am working on my small business and myself and paying attention to how bring balance to both.