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Can you imagine the next time you join a discussion about daily motivation? When you really begin to start sharing the fascinating daily motivation facts below, your friends will be absolutely amazed.

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One day in China, there was a young man standing near a very large river. He wanted to cross the river, so he waited for a raft to take him to cross it. A few minutes later, a raft got near to the riverside and the young man got to a fisherman paddling the raft. He said, “Would you do me a favor? I want to cross the river, but I can’t, and fortunately you come here. Can you bring me over there and I will pay you for that.” The fisherman then brought him to the land across.

On the journey at the river, they had conversation. The young man asked, “Do you know about computer? That’s the most important technology nowadays.” And the fisherman replied confusingly, “I don’t.” hearing the answer from the man, the young man stated, “If you know nothing about computer, it means that you have spent 2/5 of your own life vainly.” The fisherman didn’t give comment at all. A moment later, the young man asked the fisherman,” Can you speak English fluently or at least you know a little bit about it?” And once again, the fisherman answered, “I don’t. I can speak native language only.” Then the young man said proudly, “English is spoken throughout the world. If you aren’t able to speak English, you have spent 3/5 of your valuable life vainly.” The young man kept on asking question to the man, “Do you understand about accounting? It’s very important to manage our finance.” The fisherman answered a little loudly and angrily, “I’ve never learnt about that, so I do not understand what you mean.” And the young man said arrogantly, “Hey, man, if you don’t learn accounting, you will spend 4/5 of your life vainly. Everybody must know it without exception.” The fisherman kept staying calm. He didn’t care for his cockiness.

At the half of the way to the destination across, there was a heavy storm and rain. They both was wet because the raft had no shelter, so the fisherman kept on paddling the raft and the young man began to feel cold. The rain and storm got heavier and suddenly, the raft began to crack and broken. The young man was very frightened because he knew that the raft would be drowned before he reached the land across. Knowing about that, he began to cry a little. Then the fisherman asked him seriously, “Can you swim?” The young man replied sadly, “No. I can’t.” The fisherman said sadly too, “You’re unlucky today, young man. I tell you, if you can’t swim, it means you have spent 5/5(all) of your life vainly because you’ll die today because of your disability to swim. I can’t help you more.” Then the raft was finally drowned to the bottom of the deep river. The fisherman swam to the land and the young man died because he couldn’t swim.



Message for readers:

Every person has his/her own strength or expertise. One’s strength is perhaps different from others. We must know that we can’t master everything in this world. It’s impossible to learn all of the things because it’ll make us confuse and it’s in vain. It’s far better to master one or several things that are considered to be important or necessary for us. Unfortunately, many people like to compare themselves to the strength of everyone. They always underestimate themselves and see their weakness instead of their strength.

Let’s take an example. A computer expert compared to a doctor. We can’t say that the computer expert is better and greater than doctor or otherwise, because their mastery about everything is far far different. The computer expert is great in computer science and the doctor is expert in medical science. Computer expert isn’t greater than the doctor because the computer expert knows nothing about medical things and doctor isn’t greater than computer expert because doctor doesn’t know everything about computer. So they have their own strength and weakness.

Another example is the young man on the story above. He claimed that he has knowledge about computer, English and accounting. He felt better than the fisherman. But the young man died because he didn’t know how to swim. The fisherman who knows none of them--computer, English, accounting--was alive just because he can swim. So don’t concentrate our weakness, but just focus on our strength and utilize it so we can go ahead. Perhaps we’re good at something, and in the other side we’re bad in other things. It’s just OK, it’s normal for you and everyone because we can’t be perfect to know all of the things in this world. We can also improve our weakness if we want it, however.

Remember, just focus on our strength. Don’t compare someone’s strength to you. Someone perhaps doesn’t know what you know quite well. So utilize your strength for your benefits. Don’t judge yourself lower and weaker than anyone else. It’ll endanger yourself and make you having low self-esteem. Raise your self-esteem by enlisting your strength and always make improvement so you’ll be better and stronger than before.

Tips: Take a sheet of paper and write down your strength that others do not have or write it down that you are proud of. The more your strength, the better. Don’t waste your time to focus on other people’s strength. Put your focus to be the best in your area or your life.

1.__________________________________________
2.__________________________________________
3.__________________________________________
4.__________________________________________
5.__________________________________________

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You must know too that motivating yourself to achieve success you want is the crucial thing. It’s important to motivate yourself simply because there are too many obstacles outside you that can steal your precious dreams. They perhaps come from your family, relatives, close friends, couples, or anyone that do not support you from what you are trying to be, to do and to have and the worst is sometimes some of them hating you and do not want you to be successful. They will block you either directly or indirectly. Others come from your environment or failure and other results that you do not ever expect to have. They indirectly make you feel down and make your spirit lost. That is the time that you must motivate yourself so you cannot affected by them. By motivating yourself, you will be stronger and better in overcoming those obstacles and cause you to be motivated for your real destination you want to go.

You can motivate yourself anytime anywhere without depending on other factors. If you think you can be motivated by attending seminars, training or anything, you’re right. Seminars and other trainings about self development are really important for you to equip yourself with the weapons to achieve your success. But it’s impossible for you to attend them everyday and the fact is that there are no motivational seminars held everyday. You can just be motivated and feel like you have great power after attending one motivational seminar, but if you do not motivate yourself when something bad comes to you, it’s hardly for you to achieve success because if you do not motivate yourself, you will have no motivation and spirit of success. No big achievement is achieved without motivation and spirit involved.

The secret of being motivated is simple. Just make yourself motivated because of something inside you, not outside you. You can choose to be motivated and happy right now because the control is in you. But if you think that you can only motivated after one seminar or when the perfect time, condition or people come, you are totally wrong. They are factors outside you. You are not able to control and influence them. Do you wait for someone or something to make you motivated? What if they never come? There’s no perfect time or perfect condition for being motivated. The best time to be motivated is right now, not later. You can be motivated now, you can be happy now, you can be in full spirit of success now. Why must wait to do that if you can do it right now in just seconds or minutes. Procrastination will only waste your time. Don’t wait, be motivated right now and take your track of your success. It’s well worth your effort.

Every successful people also have failure as the part of being successful. The difference is that they keep being motivated when failure comes. They will learn from it and even put harder effort to achieve success. No success without failure first. There’s a quote that says if you want to achieve more success, you must multiply your failure. I agree with that. Someone who is afraid of being stung by swarm of bees does not deserve for honey. It’s the same as if you are afraid of failure, you will never achieve success. Motivate yourself that you can achieve success like every other successful people, you have the great power to be what you want to be. Nothing in this world can stop you if you are fully motivated for what your dreams are. Success is your right.


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