If your life was on the big screen… Would you stay and watch?

Feeling Fulfillment – Motivational Monday

I had a member of my team come to me last week and say…

“I can’t do this anymore, I’m overwhelmed and I don’t feel like I can perform my tasks anymore, I quit.”

Of course, a good leader is going not going to just watch teammates walk away. Especially when they know that the member is doing a great job, things can just be more difficult and they need reassurance of their position in the team.

We met for coffee and we talked about it. He was having a hard time putting his dissatisfaction into words. He said he was overwhelmed, that it felt like he was not making an impact on the team and he didn’t belong anymore.

We went over the usual workday process, found key points where he was struggling, and we addressed them accordingly.

My goal was to investigate why he was overwhelmed and where we could find balance.

Many times overwhelm is just an excuse for something much deeper.

Having fulfillment is… satisfaction in any situation. During massive growth or slowdowns, successful sales or failing a few times, having tasks that we don’t know how to do and the challenge of overcoming them, and pairing all of that with our daily lives.

I can’t blame him! Being on a high-performance team in one of the worlds largest sales organizations can definitely be overwhelming! But if you have Fulfillment… If you love the process, if it brings you joy to build a business and see the effects on other peoples lives… If you can take a step back from the massive todo list and take a look at the massive forest instead of just the biggest trees… You’ve grown a damn forest!

You’ve created processes that didn’t exist before you! Or you didn’t have the skill necessary to complete a task but now you do, and all of it was done to help an organization and build your own personal fulfillment in work and in life…

Being overwhelmed is definitely a symptom that needs to be addressed… but your longevity, your gratitude for waking up and having that opportunity needs to always be reinforced and never taken for granted.

This is a video by Simon Sinek. It’s geared towards millennials, but I see it as something that can affect us all. It really shines a light on having that fulfillment and how important even the smallest details in our lives can be.

P.S. Our overwhelmed friend had a few days off, and he’s back in the saddle doing the amazing work he is known to do.

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Matt Morris
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Having Doubts – Motivational Monday

“I don’t think it’s going to work…”

“I don’t think I can do this…”

“I never should have even started this…”

“Why can’t this be easier?”

Ever heard any of these?

Where did you hear it? I’ll bet that whenever you hear these words, they put you in a bad mood. They cause you to question where you are at in your life. You start to question your existence and what even matters…

I’ll bet that 99% of the time, it’s only you. It’s only your voice questioning your attempts at a better life.

Guess what: They will never go away.

Doubt will always be there, trying to pry into your life and stop you from taking action. It’s amazing to see how people will beat themselves into submission before anyone else has a chance to even try.

You have a choice.

We accept that the negative voice will always be there, but what do we do about it? Are you going to quit? When I started Network Marketing, I sucked, and I sucked for 5 long years before I finally started to gain traction and make a name for myself.

For 5 years I listened to these ideas…

Every. Single. Day.

Every. Single. Call.

But I always made a choice to push forward.

Making Negativity into Positivity

When the doubt-alarm would go off, that I was wasting my time and that I could not be successful, I smiled. A quick inner dialogue to say “Oh yeah? But what if I keep doing this, what will my life be like when I strike gold and make an amazing life?”

You will always have a choice – Listen to your self-doubt and become an easy-quitter, or be courageous enough to fight for your future.

 

P.S. You can do it. 

This video is an amazing interpretation of how you will always be your greatest enemy or your greatest motivation.

 

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Laser Focused Hustle – Motivational Monday

I love this video: This is the 50-billion dollar man. He’s straight forward. He’s the kind of guy who will tell you like it is: Do you wake up and brush your teeth every morning? Making money is the same thing.

That laser-focused hustle every day is what makes dreams come true.

In the video, he talks about life being a journey – And he’s not wrong. We all have a chosen path in life, and choosing a path that makes you happy is the best thing we can do – but if you’re like me, and you have these great ambitions and you want the best parts of life for you and your family and your families family, you gotta stay focused.

No fear, no excuses, nothing.

I’ll let him speak for himself. This is great Motivational Monday Material, and I hope that your business, your work, and love and passion in life pursued with amazing power and focus.

 

 

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3 Signs of Feeling Burned Out – Motivational Monday

Burnout is described as “in a state of physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress”. We’ve all been there at one point or another, where you start to feel drained and dissatisfied with your daily existence. There’s so much going on, so many projects and tasks that need to be completed, so much progress you could be making, and there are issues at home… Just the perfect storm of stressful topics to make you feel small and inadequate. If this is something you’ve experienced or you feel like right now, my friend, you may be experiencing burnout.

I wanted to make a quick list of signs you should be looking for – indicators that you need to take action!

1. Simple tasks become a grind
   
   There is an email that needs to be sent, a form to be filled out, or a meeting to attend that becomes MONUMENTAL. It’s a struggle to type out a 300 letter email, or you can’t put information together for the meeting.
   SOLUTION: Meet with your peers and prioritize. This is an amazing way to communicate that you may be overloaded.  Having
2. Exhausted and Distracted

   When the workday ends, and home life begins, you may be so tired or worn out that you don’t enjoy your free time. Instead of spending enjoying quality time with family or even doing chores, it’s easier to lie around the house and think “What’s the point”
   SOLUTION: Unplug. When your day ends, your working mind ends. Instead of sitting on the couch dreading the sunrise, wake up early and enjoy it.  My point is, get some good sleep, relax, and get out of the misery. It can be difficult, but like all things, the first steps are the worst. After that, it only gets better.

3. Negative Self-Worth
   
   You may have a meeting or a task coming up in the next few hours that you do not feel prepared for. In some cases, you may not even feel qualified to sit with your peers. Quality work begins to give way to feelings of self-doubt.
   SOLUTION: Take a step back and acknowledge this FACT: You made it to your station because of the great things you have produced. You are in these meetings, you have better responsibilities because you have proven to be a go-to person and you can continue to do so.

 

Don’t let burnout make you dread another beautiful day on this planet. Take steps now to address your discontent.

 

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I Don’t Want to be Average – Motivational Monday

The capacity to strengthen and increase your hunger is the one common denominator amongst the most successful people.  I believe that’s the single most important element that separates the quality of people’s lives. It’s not just the ability to have hunger, but to sustain it.

The super successful don’t stop once they hit their targets. They simply reset and go again. Anytime you stop reaching for massive success, the next thing, you start settling in, that’s when you start having problems.

The comfort zone is dangerous. When you’re comfortable, you are most dangerous. You should never feel comfortable. You should be happy, and dissatisfied. Most people are hungry to achieve a certain amount, make a certain amount of money, and then they get comfortable and relax, or they get a certain level of fitness and then they relax. But if you can find within yourself the part of you that you want more, you want more of yourself, you want to make a bigger difference, you want to do something more than there day is today and that you don’t get satisfied.

If anyone ever tells you, “Hey look, you know what? just be satisfied with what you’ve got.” Don’t believe them, get them away from you. Don’t believe them, get them away from you. You should never be satisfied with what you’ve got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better.

Only those who have given up on greatness, would settle for average. We often hear people say, “I just want to be comfortable.” Don’t let anybody tell you, “Hey man you know, you should just be happy with…” No.

That is very dangerous to consider the idea of comfort. Such comfort mentality is what sets entrepreneurs and businesses apart. It’s what makes people great, is saying, “I don’t want to be average.”

If you don’t grow, you’re dying. If you do not expand your business, expand your family, expand your life, if you don’t push to grow, you’re dying. And what you have will be taken. You should double your business. Triple it. I’m trying to tell you something, that its true, and it’s true for me and it’s true for you, you can get anything you want. Be obsessed over your future, be consumed by the possibilities. The ambitious should never apologize, for the only people that criticize them are the people that have given up. Get excited, be excited, stay excited, and never settle.

 

 

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