Guest post: What motivates me!

This is a guest post by Marju Raadik-Kantsik. Read her bio below the post!

First thing you always have to realize about motivation is that nobody can motivate you – not your boss, coworker, friend or any other person. The only and only person who can motivate you is yourself. Real motivation comes from inside you. It is our inner strength that makes us move the mountains and make the difference.

Dare to dream and allow yourself have a big challenges, big goals and purposes. When you really know what you want then it is very easy to find motivation, time and energy to follow your dream.

When somebody else motivates you, then very often it happens to be that it is their goals and dreams to fill, not yours. Yes you can be inspired, yes you may feel exited and happy, but as long the actions are not connected with your own purpose, it is not really motivation either. That is also the reason why money is not so good motivator – it works only temporally or    in certain period of life. The real motivator is a goal to reach, is a dream to fill and YOUR OWN way to go step by step.

When you have reached first milestones then you already have the wings to fly to your dream.

I also strongly ask for feedback. Usually very many people are afraid of getting feedback, especially when it is not something unexpected. That is why I recommend you to be open-minded and ask yourself a feedback for your actions. Because feedback is like a compass to you it shows us are we in a right track, are we heading in right direction? And it helps you to improve yourself, so you could really develop the better version of yourself.

Some more tips:

• Write your goals down. Otherwise it is only a dream. When you need to write it down it becomes a goal to reach and have. Then you have to put your dream into words and it becomes to live in your conscious and subconscious. To make it come true.

• Much more important is to manage your energy than manage your time. You may have very carefully arranged time schedule, but if you have no energy to follow it, there is no use of it. So learn yourself and know yourself – what helps you to gather the energy, reduce things that takes too much of your energy and empower the things that gives you more energy.

• Have your own personal board of directors, from whom you may ask for advice at any question that arise or any obstacle to concur on your way. It can be one person, someone who has made a great impact in your life. Or it can be a group of friends around you. It can be that in different aspects we need different people to help us. Have a backup plan and have someone to discuss it over with.

• Don’t compare too much yourself with other people. We all have a different speed and different goals. Find someone to learn from and be inspired, a real star to follow but still follow your own way, not somebody else’s.

I wish you all the best and more motivation that comes inside you!

“Your own decision to be successful is the most important thing” – Abraham Lincoln

About Marju:

Marju is 34 years old, graduated Tallinn School of Economics and Estonian Business School as an international business administration (bachelor). Marju has fulfilled all additional trainings that Estonian Banking Association offers. Marju has worked as securities settlement back office manager in Estonian Foreksbank and Cresco Investment bank. Work experience is also from manufacture company OÜ Maisan. From year 2000 Marju has worked in Hansabank as a Client Relationship Manager in Private Wealth Management. In 2001 Marju was elected as  a most outstanding star attendant in Hansabank. In 2007 Marju has established her own training company named Tip Tap Consultations.

Marju hobbies are books about strategy implementation, researches and also cooking, singing and hiking. In people Marju values honesty, accuracy and cooperation.

Her blog: www.tipatapakonsultatsioonid.blogspot.com