Archive for October, 2009

Monday Motivator

No, we are not talking about actual poison but toxic people that can poison. Unfortunately, it would be great if close friends or co-workers could share in your success but all too often, there will be someone who is either dealing with the “green monster” of jealousy or has a case of the “I knew that” syndrome. If you are serious about reaching your goal and being successful, you will need to rid your life of these people. While you may not be able to get them out of your life completely, you should avoid them as best as possible. If this is a person, you see every day, keep your goals to yourself, and avoid that specific subject.

Surround yourself with positive people who motivate and encourage you in your scrapbook business goals!

Monday Motivator

It is important to know what you are getting into.  First, you will want to conduct research as far as the scrapbook business, industry, or interest associated with your particular success.  Second, the research will help you stay up to date on trends, which may or may not require you to make adjustments in your own goal.  For example, if you were interested in opening a particular scrapbook business focusing on a specific technique and that technique took a turn in another direction, making supplies hard to find or obsolete, you may need to change the direction you were going for your own business.  Unless you kept up on research, you would not know when a change was needed and therefore, would end up building a business already headed for failure.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Monday Motivator

Be Passionate. Fall in love with what you do. Although that sounds funny, you need to have an intimate passion with your interest. You can do this regardless of what your success is. By having passion for what you are doing and driving toward, you will automatically put more effort into it. Passion is a good thing as long as it does not become an obsession.

This reminds me of a song we sang during worship. The following lyrics is an excerpt from the song “Going through the Motions” by Matthew West.

I don’t wanna go through the motions
I don’t wanna go one more day
Without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don’t wanna spend my whole life asking
What if I had given everything?
Instead of going through the motions

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Monday Motivator

Talking about your goals for success not only keeps it in the front of your mind but also keeps up your excitement level.  In addition, it adds in an element of accountability.  Think about it, you go around telling everyone that you are going to be a professional scrapbook artist, those people are going to be expecting, and anxious to see you succeed.  By talking about your goals, you are creating a motivational system – a system of accountability.

Accountability breeds response-ability. ~ Stephen R. Covey

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ~Moliere