Hey everyone Travis Robertson CEO and founder of Robertson Coaching International - where
we help people just like you create businesses that support your life, not
businesses that run your life. And today I want to finish our three-part series
on motivation. How do we get motivated,
sustain that motivation, and ultimately today what we're gonna talk about is
accelerate that motivation and
really kick it into high gear. You see too many people wait around for
something outside of themselves
to kind of spark or ignite that motivation, right? And
we call those extrinsic motivators and the problem with the
extrinsic motivators is that they tend to come with negative consequences, right?
It's the heart attack
that people wait for before they get into the gym and exercise and they watch
what they eat and they lose weight.
And so rather than waiting for something outside of ourselves to ignite that
motivation in us
how do we get motivated? We talked about having an ambition
that is so big, so exciting, so motivating and inspiring that you just can't help
but want to achieve it but you can have something that's so big that you don't
believe that you can achieve it. So you've gotta have a high level of ambition
plus a high level of expectancy or belief
that you can achieve that ambition. Then in the last video we discussed how you
sustain that motivation so
how do you keep it going once you've got it. We talked about the importance
of focus and effort, how
we live in a world that's just filled with distraction, right? It's
becoming harder and harder and harder
to stay focused on those things that we know are important to get us to where we
want to go both
professionally and personally so how do we attack that distraction, right?
Because you know we know that you can't just manage a distraction, you've got to
attack it
so that you can focus in on that effort that's gonna move you to where you need
be. And then you've gotta have that every day in and day out.
Sometimes it's gonna be days of big strides, big
effort towards your goal and other days it's not going to be that and
that's okay as long as you're making continuous effort towards what we want. That
builds the momentum and that builds that
excitement that we can see, that at the end of that tunnel, at the end of the road, at
the end of that journey,
our destination is getting closer and closer and that ambition, that big dream,
that big goal that we have for our life or for our business,
we're getting there, were getting there and that that excites us and it keeps us motivated and
allows us to sustain it.
So today I want to talk about how do you then accelerate it? How do you really
let it take off so that it not just builds momentum but
all the sudden just lights up and the speed at which you get from where you
are to where you want to be just takes off
and that really comes down to controlling two things that most people
don't
either realize they have control over or never learn how to actually
control and those two things are number one: your
attitude and number two: your environment. See most people never think about the
fact that they can control their attitude.
They can control how they feel at any given point in time throughout the day.
Most people show up and they go "I'm just having a bad day" or
"this guy cut me off and I'm all pissed off and now my day is shot and it's
gone to hell in a hand basket"
But what they're doing is they're choosing to let an event
dictate their attitude rather than letting an event happen then choosing their
response or choosing their attitude
moving forward. Look we can't always change what happens to us. We can't even control
what happens to us a lot of time but what we can control
is our response, our attitude. When we learn to control our
attitude and say "you know no matter what happens I'm going to come in today and have joy
and have fun and
I'm gonna bring the excitement to what I do!" Look do I have bad days?
All the time I have bad days but you know what? I sing songs in the office. I
get people going. I get people excited.
I have as much fun as I can have
because it's my choice and if I'm not enjoying this, what's gonna keep me
motivated to show up when things are going
you know hard, when things are difficult, when times are challenging?
If I'm not loving what I do and choosing my attitude when I show up at the
office,
it's going to impact everybody else, it's going to impact the rest of the team.
You see, what I choose is ultimately going to impact the people that i want to
influence. And what you choose as far as your attitude is going to influence
your clients' attitude, the people that you want to serve, the people on your
team
and they're all gonna read off of you and if you're attitude sucks, guess what? So will your
business,
so will your life, so will your relationships.
You have ultimate control over your attitude, but most people never
choose their response. They never choose to say "you know if I'm not happy with how
I'm feeling, I need to change what I was thinking about"
because our thoughts ultimately determine our attitudes. They determine
our emotions.
How I'm feeling comes from what I'm thinking about, what I'm dwelling on
what I'm letting kinda go inside my head over and over and over again.
And if I keep thinking about that jackhole that cut me off
that's all I'm gonna be thinking about is just how pissed off that made me
and that's just gonna make me angry. So if I just change what I'm thinking about and I can
start to control
the attitude that I have. Now the second thing is your environment.
And your environment is everything from the office space you work in to
your home environment to the relationships that you have in your life.
See most people think about how their office is setup is ultimately going to
determine how effective or how ambitious they're gonna be or how
motivated they're going to be
but it really does! I mean I remember when I first started this business,
we were a home-based business, right? I was starting
in a spare room in my house and it was fun for a period of time
but I started to realize that you know what? I'm not as motivated
as I would be if I were going into an office. I realized it was time for me to get an
office so I went out and I got an office space
and that going into the office day in and day out really
ignited another level of motivation for me. It started to accelerate that
motivation,
accelerate the business and accelerate our growth because I enjoyed
the space and the space became motivating. Is your office space cluttered?
Maybe that's a demotivator. I know for me I'm not..look, I'm a tornado looking for a place
to land but at the same time
I need an organized office space. And so I have somebody on my team who goes in
and cleans my office space for me on a regular basis because
I think better in an organized space. I'm more motivated in an organized space. So
what are the
environmental factors that you need to change in your business or in
your work life or in your home life? If you go home and it's chaos,
that's not all that motivating either so maybe look at what are the personal things that
need to change?
But here's the key: relationships. Most people never think about how the relationships
that they have ultimately determine their level of motivation.
See we all have people in our life that, if we're not careful, become toxic
relationships, right?
How many of you know people that have drama follow them around. It's like
every time they turn around
something's going wrong in their life and they're just,
you know murphy's law in walking person. And they're just,
you know, problems just follow them and chaos and drama follow them.
Well if you allow those people in your life, whether as friendships
or as clients, I mean how many clients have you taken that you start looking at and go "oh
my gosh, I
never should've taken this person on as a client because now they've just become
chaotic and they've become a nightmare of a client. Well those are the people that start to suck
your energy.
They start to draw everything that you have as
like a vampire
and start to pull your motivation away. So when you start to clear out your
environment and you start to control that environment and get rid of
all the bad relationships, by the way I'm having a blast right now clearing out my
Facebook feed.
I'm friending people like crazy right now.
If anybody's posted something negative or just try to get you know a response
using a political post or a political event just to rile people up,
they're gone off my feed, off my wall. I don't need that.
I've got big dreams. I've got things that I want to do. I've got people that I wanna
serve and that I want to help. And I wanna be
positive as an influence in people's lives and I don't need negative
influences in my life. So what are the different areas
in your attitude and in your environment maybe you haven't been controlling.
You start to take control of your attitude and in your environment and watch your
business, watch your life
take off. It will take flight in a way you can't even
imagine. And that's ultimately what I want for you. So now you know how do you ignite
that motivation,
how do you sustain that motivation and then ultimately how do you accelerate it
so that
what you want to achieve, that big ambition that we talked about
in part 1 of this series, all the sudden becomes not just a big ambition
but a reality. That's my hope for you. If you enjoy this video
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