Who doesn’t want to know how to motivate themselves. Well I have the answer. It is actually quite simple but it comes with a short story.

I (like everyone else) want to be successful but I have very little money, not education past high school, and am not the most outgoing/social being around (until you get to know me). I started this quest to make money about 10 months ago and the goal was to be making $15/hour every hour of every day within a year, starting with $200, and what I do to make that money doesn’t matter. With a goal like that I needed some serious motivation, luckily my parents had a quite a large self help book collection (not that they were in need of all that help, they tried Amway, and if you know anything about Amway you know that you end up with motivation by the box load, literally). I got reading and and soon got “fired up” and got my “got get um” attitude on and set out to make my millions.

Guess what, I was almost immediately back to my unmotivated state. So I read some more and got another little motivational “high” but as soon as it came, it was gone again. I then heard someone say that if you want to become motivated you need it to come from within, I knew I had to come up with something to motivate myself, but what? To tell you the truth I still can’t put my finger on it, but I am definitely motivated now. I think it comes from the knowing (and I mean really knowing, more a mixture of knowing and believing, and not the kind of believing that you have to convince yourself into) that I am working on a great idea, it will make nearly everyone’s lives better that uses it, and that I can see it being quite beneficial to me (and I don’t just mean money).

Motivational books, lectures, CDs, videos, and blogs are all great and I am sure that they help a lot of people but to truly stay motivated you need to find something already inside yourself that keeps you motivated.