MOTIVATION - What Motivates You?

What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say.

~ Mizzou

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

~ Ronnie Lott, Former NFL Football Player

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

~ Vince Lombardi, Former NFL Football Coach

The greatest accomplishment is not in ever falling, but in rising

again after you fall. ~Vince Lombardi, Former NFL Football coach.

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a

champion.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“YOU BECOME A CHAMPION BY FIGHTING ONE MORE ROUND.

WHEN THINGS ARE TOUGH YOU FIGHT ONE MORE ROUND.”

~ James J. Corbett

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can

do for your teammates. ~ Magic Johnson, former NBA Basketball Player

“I would rather have players with 50% ability and 100% desire, because the guys with 100% desire

you know are going to make the play everyday so you can make the system to fit into what they can

do. The other guys who have 100% ability and 50% desire can screw up your whole system,

because one day they will be out there waltzing around.”

~ Vince Lombardi

• Story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody & Nobody.

•There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it.

• Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.

• Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

• Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job.

• Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybodywouldn’t do it

• It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred

times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred

and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it

– but all that had gone before.”

The task is to build a mountain. We started with one rock. There are more Rocks to be broken. The ROCK is the foundation of our mountain. We continue to build by gathering more rocks in a pile. As we get stronger, we can carry bigger rocks. Soon we move to boulders and the pile of rocks is now a hill. As we continue to work, our hill grows higher. Eventually, we look down and realize we stand atop a mountain.

Building a mountain is a never ending task. There are outside forces who are working to tear down our mountain. It will be up to those who come after us to keep working so our mountain continues to grow taller and never comes tumbling down! True there will be gaps and holes caused by outside forces, but that only means we have to work harder to BUILD THE MOUNTAIN.

By: Rev. Charles Swindoll, Source Unknown

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, then circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, and a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it

for god. What I do today is important, because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its

place something I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, not loss; good, not evil; success, not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it because the future is just a whole string of nows.

Follow your dreamsTake one step at a timeAnd don’t settle for lessJust continue to climb.

Follow your dreamIf you stumble don’t fallAnd lose sight of the goalFor only on topCan we see the whole view,Can we see what we have doneAnd what we can do,Can we then have the visionTo seek something newPress on and follow your dreams

F. – FALSEE. – EVIDENCEA. – APPEARINGR. – REAL

Fear of failure has held us all back from doing or getting something we wanted. One way to overcome fear of failure is this: Give yourself permission to fail. Many winners say they didn’t begin to win until they began to look at MISTAKES or FAILURES as STEPPING STONES to SUCCESS

In Addition to learning from your mistakes and failures, it is important to FORGIVE YOURSELF for these shortcomings. Are you punishing yourself for any mistakes or failures that occurred in your past? Do you understand forgiveness is automatic permission to succeed.

You always move toward your CURRENT DOMINANT THOUGHT, every minute of every day. You can’t move away from what you’re thinking or saying. You move toward your fears just as if they were your goals. You can’t dwell on the reverse of an idea. You can’t tell yourself what NOT to do.

DESIRE and FEAR are the two greatest motivators. They propel or compel us to action, and make themselves visible through our thoughts and words. You are constantly talking, either to others or yourself. You think in words and your life is affected – either positively or negatively – by your current dominant thoughts (your mental dialog or “self-talk”). Positive Self-talk leads you forward to where you want to go. Negative self-talk locks up your mental resources and your attitudes and actions.

Your greatest power is your power to choose – How do you talk to yourself??

The answers to three questions will determine your success or failure.

• Can people trust me to do my best?• Am I committed to the task at hand?

• Do I care about other people and show it?

If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. ~ Lou Holtz

GET BETTER, that’s our goal. Every day when we walk on the field our goal is to GET BETTER. GET BETTER at something. It may

seem like a little thing, an assignment, a technique, a fundamental, a step, a throw, a

catch, a block, a tackle, an attitude…But CHAMPIONS are always striving to GET

BETTER.

MOTIVATION – What Motivates You?