The Importance of Motivation

Performers and Achievers Daily with Raj Gavurla

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Show Notes:
The most important characteristics of performers and achievers with relevant and relatable stories and examples to bring out your authentic gifts, talents, abilities, and skills.

The Importance of Motivation

1.  Understanding and Sustaining Motivation

2.  Motivation and Mental Preparation Strategies

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Hi, Performers Achievers. Welcome to Performers Achievers Daily with me, Raj Gavrla. In today's episode, we're discussing motivation. I was talking with someone, and they were saying that their patients, their customers. This was a physical therapy place that they sometimes come in and say, you know, they just don't have the motivation to do the exercises. They think they'll do them wrong, or there's always that battle. Is it really working? Is it really benefiting them? Is it creating outcomes, results, breakthroughs? And so the other part of it is exactly that. They just don't have the mental strategies or the mental skills in order to make it a more enjoyable experience, more beneficial experience, one where they have tangible, beneficial results, outcomes, breakthroughs. And so here are some ways to gain motivation. The thing about motivation, as we all know, is that it wears off. However, it is necessary though and needed. Ask any sports coach before a game, motivating their team during the season, and they bring in someone to motivate them, right? They do a motivational talk, a pep talk, right? And it works. Give the team a significant advantage. It gives them a gain in their skill set, in their abilities, in their approach to this specific game. And so it is obviously customized for this specific game that they're getting ready to play. Or is customized to let's say keep people motivated when during the season, it's a long season, so maybe a quarter of the way through or halfway through, there's something for them to look forward to, or just um impetus, some stimulation for them, some motivation. So motivation obviously is very important. So here are some ways, and these are ways that are customized to you, customized to your team. One is obviously is to know your why. What is your why? And when I say you know your why, this is more than just knowing what your why is, and you can think of your why as your purpose, your mission. Okay, just your why. Know your why. Okay, so that's very, very important, and it needs to have something in there that's something that drives you, that excites you, that it just makes it fulfilling for you, worthwhile for you, whatever that may be. It's gonna be different for each person, and you don't want to complicate it too much, however, again, you don't want it to be just some generic type of why, okay, because that's not going to be motivational. The second strategy, mental strategy, mental skill is to read something motivational. You ever read things that are motivational? It really works. Read something that's motivational. A lot of our reading and even listening to the music that we listen to, it's not necessarily motivational. And I get it, right? Some of it is there because it's that's just the way it is, and you interpret it a certain way, and you know, maybe you can sort of relate or have some kind of relevance to you, but however, we're talking about motivation here, and so for motivation, read something that's motivational, it'll make a big difference. It doesn't need to be a long passage or a long book, it can be, it can be a book, it can be listening to a specific song, whatever it may be, but then it can also just be a few paragraphs, maybe a story, something motivational. So read something motivational. Another way to motivate, and again, this is gonna wear off. However, the duration and when to use this is what's important, the timing of it. Just like when you take a shower, it wears off, and you take a shower the next day, right? Same thing with motivation. The next one is to create a positive mental picture. Positive mental picture. Okay, that's very important. And another way to go deeper into that is by creating a vision board. For those of you who use my workbook, you know at the beginning I have a vision board, where in the workbook you just write in and even paste pictures of yourself, and then six months later, you do the exercise again and see what outcomes you received, what results, what are tangible benefits, what are the breakthroughs, right? Or it could be a year later. So a vision board, and you can put this vision board in different places. It doesn't need to be a complex vision board. I have a structure that I can show you to use it, however, you can use the vision board, and that vision board can be put on your phone as like a uh screensaver, it can be put on your computer, it can be put on uh made in into like a little poster that you can put on your wall in your office, so they have a vision board. The next is to have signs of success. So when you go into a specific area, right, there's certain artifacts, there's certain messages, quotes, whatever it may be, pictures that show signs of success, something that's relevant and relatable to you that is motivational to you. And then here's another one, and this is where this is spaced repetition, and it's just every day, and that is passwords. When you put in your password, you can put in something motivational, like your password maybe simplify, or if that's too simple of a password and it won't take it, simplify 10 star exclamation mark. Now the 10 star exclamation mark have no significance, however, the word simplify is still there, or it could be the word vibrant, or it could be tenacity, or it could be excellent communication skills. Well, that'd be a long password, however, I think you get the message, so your passwords can be used, okay. And then obviously, there's the one word focus. So every three months, which is a quarter, actually, every four months, no, every three months, which is a quarter, I uh have my one word focus, and so my one word focus is simplify, simplify, and then we have some other ones. So we have, for example, I mentioned signs of success. We also have start, stop, continue as you reflect, or before you go into as you're mentally preparing, and a lot of these are for mental preparation. You go and you say, Okay, and think about tell yourself, talk to yourself about what will you start? I'm gonna start to implement this mental skill. What do you want to stop? I want to stop making this unforced error, or I want to stop chasing. I want to make sure I want to stop targeting the wrong prospects or potential customers. Then what do you want to continue? Well, what worked well. But generated results, outcomes, breakthroughs. How can you generate those again or produce those again? So there's this battle that goes on, right? And then there's motivation in the sense that you have a system, you have your process, and is your system and your process enjoyable and fun. Now, when I say enjoyable and fun, that doesn't mean it's enjoyable and fun all the time, however, it does mean that it's enjoyable and fun most of the time, and wherever there is that battle going on, because there is a battle every day, then are you able to use your motivation skills to realize that be kinder to yourself, be kind to yourself, be kind to the people that are in your life, the ones that are on your side or on your support system, or in your support system, in your network. It's not so complicated. So if you're like trying to just instantly motivate yourself to go do something without the proper mental preparation and having your system that's enjoyable and fun, and your process that's enjoyable and fun, then some days it's going to be too hard, too difficult. And that battle that goes on is harder. So we want to remove that battle or decrease it as much as we can, and by doing that so you'll see that you're putting your time, your energy, your motivation towards things to have higher tangible benefits. You'll receive tangible benefits, you just won't know exactly what the results, the outcomes, and the breakthroughs will be. Currently, I'm in physical therapy, I'm not really able to jump right now and do some of the things so that I can play soccer, basketball, and tennis. However, I do go out there and I do still do shadow work and I do some just regular just ball handling and shooting at not such an intense level, passing the ball, and then playing tennis, mostly doubles. And what I've noticed as a tangible benefit from the physical therapy, although I cannot go at uh a non-injured in a non-injured way, is that my balance, my stability of when I'm hitting the ball is so much greater now. And it's because of the physical therapy and the combination of things also, and that combination of things is that I've also taken the load off of my mind. I've taken the load off of my heart, right? And I am showing heart by recognizing and having awareness of what my situation is and adapting and making adjustments so that I can continue to enjoy my system, my process, and it's enjoyable and fun most of the time. Some days, yes, there is a battle, and on those days you have other skills that you may use depending upon the situation. It could be coping skills, it could be inspiration, it could be taking a vacation, just something that uh sort of resets you. You may use reflection or journaling. Journaling, I journal. So it just helps to process your feelings, your emotions, it helps to see where what you can can start, what you should start, what you should stop, and then where you should continue. And also it just gets things out of your mind and into onto paper, just like my success checklist. That's a motivation tool where you just write down in a checklist format what is what's on your success checklist for today. And most days I accomplish all of mine because I don't try to put too much on there. Okay, I usually have two main business items. Okay, and then I have some form of exercise. So those are the three things that I do daily. Now it's important what those business items are, okay? And it's important on what the exercise is, and that's why expertise is so important. You heard me mention this in my yesterday's podcast. It's not that maybe you do have some knowledge in an area, some skills in the area, and some experience in an area. Good, good to do that research. However, what's valuable and why customers come and see me, and they receive help and support from me is because of the way that I put it together for them, taking into account their definition of success. What is their definition of success? And that's different for each person, and so that's what makes motivation valuable. And is there a battle every day? There is. There's a battle in the morning when getting up. Some people are the morning people, some people aren't. There may be battle in the late afternoon, or they just mean maybe battle, just thinking, you know, I'm doing this, it's it's fulfilling, it's successful. However, I'm just not receiving the results, the outcomes, the breakthroughs that I would like. And that's a hard battle there. However, as long as it's generating tangible benefits and it's fulfilling and it's enjoyable, and you have fun, then it's probably as you continue doing this, and it's a combination of things that will eventually ignite it to where you are, to where it is working a little better for you, and a little better, and a little better. Right. So that's what I have for you on motivation. Now we have some other motivation, obviously. People bring me in, and when they bring me in, they bring me in to inspire edu trainment and motivate their people. So I use a lot of different elements, which I won't go into here. However, some of them are storytelling. I use specific examples, right? I might use music, I might use some form of video or art. You know, of course, I'm always using my expertise as well. So I'm making it an enjoyable and fun experience for them with tangible benefits. Your bonus today, our bonus assignment is do you ever to motivate yourself, do you ever watch highlights of yourself? Could be highlights as in highlights for sports, it could be highlights in life. Maybe you have a picture album with your family, maybe with some friends, with something you achieved, accomplished. Could be highlights from you acting to let's say you're a professional actor, and you're booked, but you're not booked as often as you'd like, and you do a lot of self-tapes, however, you have been booked some, and go back and watch those highlights of yourself. Same thing with are you a professional speaker or expert who speaks professionally? You can go on your website and watch a clip of yours or go on YouTube and look at some of your videos, just so it's showing. You that you are headed in the right direction. Right? And it's motivational. If you reflect on where you are now and how far you've come, you really come a long way. However, to get to the next level, it takes that motivation. It takes learning to grow your skills. It takes probably different people coming into your life. It takes a combination of things. That's very important. Why the use of motivation? Does motivation work? It does. However, it has a duration. It has a duration. And it's not as easy as just keep doing that duration over and over again. Because that duration is going to last for only so long. And then use it as a mental preparation to actually do or achieve or accomplish or perform. Or play or work. That's what I have for you today. If you like my podcast, like it. Comment in the comment section. For those of you who are interested in my private, personal, professional, confidential services and programs, visit my website, RajGavrolla.com, fill out the brief form, and we will contact you as soon as we can. Enjoy your day.