Getting a glass of orange juice, working out at the gym, or reading the latest news may not always be the best way to start your day. They may help get you into a routine—or prepare for the heavy workload ahead—but they may not be the most empowering. They would make up only two items in a ‘five motivational mantras inspiring you to reach your dreams’ scenario; if we assumed breakfast and working out could be replaced with words and ideas.
Mantra: an often-repeated word, formula, or phrase. Often a truism. (Definition of mantra on dictionary.com)
After all, sometimes it feels like mornings exist just to lead us to the day—a vice-versa feeling probably occurs if you wake up and begin work at night. After the workday is over, the evening slow-down arrives and we trudge back to bed, ready to begin the same day again.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
This routine can feel familiar for those in high-school, college, or starting a job. As the days clock by, you may feel disillusioned to the point of depression. Doing the same thing day after day—with only a series of pre-supposed end-goals in sigh—can add wear and tear on your body and mind. You may feel—almost without any sense of hope, that this is all there is and nothing more.
You will work a job in the career of your choice, maybe get a promotion down the road, and after forty years—if everything goes as planned—you may save enough money to retire.
Congratulations.
I hope you had a fulfilled life.
Oh, you didn’t?
Oh…
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Maybe there was a part of you that wanted something more.
Somewhere, somehow along the line—whether it was in your late teens, early twenties, or beyond the not-so-scary-realm of thirty, there was a part of you that craved more. Wanted more. Not just the ability to work for yourself but the ability to make what you want on your own terms. There was a small voice deep inside that wondered what would happen if you worked on a scalable-side-hustle during the hours you didn’t have to work.
Maybe you tried to do it.
And maybe you didn’t.
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The point of this article is that we should all try to live and work on our own terms. Regardless of any fear we may experience when starting our side-hustle, sometimes we may just need a little push to get our minds going in the right direction.
Without further ado, here are five motivational mantras that will inspire you to reach your dreams.
1. “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from on high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen…yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”—Bradley Whitford, actor.
The importance of action can never be underestimated! If we took a little action, day-by-day, and put it towards our overarching goals of what we really want to do, we will take the necessary steps forward to achieving our dreams.
2. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”—Thomas Edison, inventor.
There will always be times when we are tempted to give up. If we understand that failure can only come if we give up permanently, then we will have more room to think about why we failed and what we can do about it for next time. Being able to learn from our mistakes and use the knowledge to help prevent future mistakes will give us the competitive edge we need to eventually succeed!
3. “When something is important enough, you do it even though the odds are not in your favor.”—Elon Musk, entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX.
Placing an importance of why we’re doing what we’re doing and not just what we’re doing is also a key-ingredient in the sought-after-formula of motivation. If we maintain greater, more tangible reasons for our dreams rather than just the generic stock-idea of ‘financial freedom’ or ‘early retirement,’ then it adds fuel to the fire…and helps dissolve any inkling we may have of giving up.
These reasons may be anything from ‘I want to take care of my family’ to ‘I want to make the world a better place.’ It even may be ‘I want to provide a product or service that people don’t even know they need.’
4. “Setting goals is the first step into turning the invisible, visible.”—Tony Robbins, author, motivational-speaker, investor.
Another—sometimes forgotten component of this equation is the ability to set goals we can achieve. These may be small goals that will eventually lead up to the big goal…or they may simply be a collection of principles that we take steps towards being able to fulfill. Being able to set goals throughout the day—not just related to your work but what you want to achieve outside of work—is more important than a lot of people realize.
5. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”—Zig Ziglar, salesman, author, and motivational speaker.
And there you have it—the ultimatum. If you do end up achieving your life goals through the success of your side-hustle, entrepreneurial spirit, or series of promotions that led to a dream position, you have to be careful to balance what achieving the position may end up doing not only to your morals, values, or perspective…but also your time, friends, and family.
Conclusion.
In a nutshell, a lot of us need to remember motivational phrases to live by, regardless if we work a job we don’t particularly enjoy. What we end up finding out from interviews and books by people who have ‘made it’ is that they all end up preaching a dilution of the same thing.
1. Work hard.
2. Work often.
3. Persist until you can craft the life you desire.
And if you think about it, they’re probably right:
Sometimes it takes just an extra push to get us there.
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Let’s crush our dreams together.
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For more key words and ideas regarding motivaiton and success, this list published by Lydia Sweatt provides further reading.
