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Do you realize that each person on earth has a unique “motivational make-up”?  Your motivation is as personal as your fingerprint, as ‘one-of-a-kind’ as your life experience, and as unique as your DNA.  Knowing how to mobilize your motivation is the secret to peak performance.  Using the latest findings in motivation and the brain sciences, you can learn to better understand and use your unique motivational abilities with extraordinary effect.  You can do this in enjoyable ways that are both extremely productive and highly rewarding!

Most people have a very poor understanding of motivation and do a less than optimal job of creating and cultivating it to mobilize themselves and their wellspring of talents… Yet, motivation is at the very heart of one’s own success and happiness!  Most people could be much more effective AND much happier using their natural, yet underdeveloped, Motivational Intelligence– if they only knew how!

Let’s look at two vital misunderstandings about Motivation:

Motivation is so often thought of as simply a force that is high or low. People think in terms of “I am really motivated” or “He is just not motivated” but this is really not the full picture.  Motivation has a nature and a quality.  The nature of motivation comes to light by asking questions like “Is your motivational energy aligned with your values and what is healthy and helpful for you?”  Wanting to participate in cardiovascular activities like walking, or playing tennis is likely well aligned with your values about getting in shape or having fun, and thus  ‘good quality’ motivation.   Whereas, if your motivation bends towards things like over eating, or spending to the detriment of your budget for example, or other self-destructive behaviors– than your motivation has characteristics of ‘poor quality motivation’.

A second question that helps to illuminate the quality of your motivation would be “Is your motivation spurred on by positive energies such as the enjoyment of your work and an aspiration to do an excellent job? Or is your motivation primarily energized by the fear that, if you don’t do an excellent job, you will  be in trouble with your manager, lose credibility, become unemployed?   The later motivation may also be rife with resentment that you must do certain things.   Motivation fueled by negative emotions leads to burnout and unproductive passive-aggressive behavior.   We actually have considerable influence over the nature of our motivation and we can self-observe it as it forms and evolves – if we are properly tuned-in and perceptive.  We can also shape our motivational abilities to our greater gain – if we possess the proper skills.  Skills that are actually learnable and life impacting! This takes us to the second, broadly held misunderstanding of motivation.

Motivation is a functional capability of our brain – Motivation is actually a multi-dimensional process that is made up of many sub-processes that we naturally perform every hour of every day whether we realize it or not– though we often perform them with modest ability.  Self-motivation or the understanding of your “Motivational Intelligence” is a combination of ability, intelligence, and a set of skills – not entirely unlike mathematical ability (Quantitative Intelligence) and mathematical skills (e.g. multiplication, and algebra).  Excitingly, Motivational Intelligence can be developed like any other skill with proper practice – just as we develop leadership skills, golfing skills, the ability to play the piano, or to be a good parent.  We can learn to be more effective at most things we do, with the right knowledge and practice.  Increasing your Motivational Intelligence skills can dramatically affect your life!

It is both possible and highly achievable to attain greater motivation in both your work and your personal life enabling you to earn more money,  be a better athlete, a more creative artist, or a even a successful leader – with a system we call “Motivational Mastery”.  At Motivational IQ the Company, we teach our clients how to build and brilliantly use this internal ability to enhance their professional performances, push beyond their fears, focus on their priorities and better their lives, even helping to improve the lives of those they love, and having greater impact on the world around!  Much can be achieved by cultivating extraordinary motivational skills that tap into a deeper understanding of the many factors that truly motivate you, mobilize your talents and strengths, and extend your abilities! With understanding, cultivation and practice a whole new world of previously un-realized motivational opportunities awaits! Find out more about our enjoyable and highly affordable, success building and achievement programs, designed to help you build more of your unique motivational power.

Employers are not always selecting the best candidates in term of academic results or the most experience in the field to fill up their job vacancies. What actually make those success candidates in an interview session stand out of crowd and be successfully secured the job? You must be surprised to the answer from most employers: Self-motivation on how a person is committed to the job that made them being offered to the job position.

You might know this is the key differentiator that can make you stand out of crowd. The question is how are you going to demonstrate to the employers that you are motivated and be able to commit to the job if you are offered with the job?

During the interview session, you can tell the employer that you are motivated with the job offer, but the employer may not be able to see through your action if you don’t demonstrate it. How to demonstrate you are self-motivated? You may ask. Fortunately, it isn’t all that difficult as you may think to prove that you are a good self-motivation person. In fact, it can be surprisingly easy to do through some simple actions that may, on the surface, seem like nothing special. If you demonstrate these actions, you are showing that you are self-motivated that will automatically make you stand out from crowd and being noticed by employers.

What actions are we talking about? Here are some examples:

1. Conducting Informal Interviews with Employers

Let the employers see your self-motivation by contacting the prospective employers to learn more about the career opportunities in their company. The companies may not have any vacant position for new hiring at the moment, but you can show your initiative by contacting the employers and have an informal discussion or a short interview with the employers to see any possibility to start your career there in the future. You could also hand in your resume to the employers to review and remind the employers to call you for a formal interview when there are vacant positions that meet your career interest.

2. Tailor Your Resumes and Cover Letters To Each Company’s Need

Do you know that some differences on your resumes or cover letters may make you stand out from crowd? Most of job applicants are using the standard format of resumes and cover letters. Imagine that when the employer screen through the stack of application letters and reviews the resume of each applicant, if they see one that is tailored to the company’s need, they definitely will pay an attention on it and resulting in positive impression. You are showing the employer that you are spending time and effort to write your resume and application letter to their specific needs. With that, you have offered tangible evidence of your self-motivation.

3. Doing Something Out of the Ordinary

During your internship or summer job or any volunteering work that you have done for a company for free or specific projects during your college time, try to do something that is out of the ordinary. For example you may offer yourself to develop a website for a local nonprofit organization or volunteer yourself for doing the evaluation tests to help in finding solution for a problem, or you can even develop a project to meet the company specific needs. In these cases, you are showing a self-motivation behavior and these companies may approach you for a job after your graduation.

Summary

Self-motivation is very important to make you stand out from crowd and being noticed by employers. Don’t just tell employers that you are a self-motivated person, instead, show to them with your actions.

After the sale of BlueLithium, Gurbaksh Chahal decided that his role at Yahoo was complete and he wanted to write a book. The main reason behind his writing was that he felt that his life has all been about defying odds through mistakes and lessons he has learned and he wanted to empower others to never give up and to continue to find their magic.

He didn’t know anything about how to write a book or how to go about even getting it published. However, one of the things he realized early on – if you don’t know how to do a particular thing, go out and surround yourself on the people that do. So, he did exactly the same. He signed up the William Morris Agency, one of the biggest talent agencies in the entertainment & media space. Outside of the television, film, and production talent they represent, they also have a very big literary department. Gurbaksh’s agent introduced him to one of the literary agents and he flew down to New York to discuss his intentions for “The Dream.”

After a few weeks, Gurbaksh ended up selling global rights to Palgrave Macmillan (part of St. Martin Press) for the Dream. Then he went to work and after 8 hard months, finally completed the manuscript for “The Dream”.

The goal of this book was to inspire individuals throughout the world to understand the elements of risk in the pursuit of one’s dream. It also detailed Gurbaksh Chahal’s story of the successful creation of two internet-based companies worth more than $340 million and also highlighted his key experience involving motivation, risk, discipline, and courage in the pursuit of his aspirations. Finally, G ended the book with 27 lessons on entrepreneurship; which are 1) Listen to your heart 2) Forget noble motivations 3) Adjust your attitude 4) Figure out what you’re good at 5)Trust your gut 6) Do your homework 7) Be frugal Don’t be frugal with hiring 9) Hire smart people 10) Don’t expect perfection, but strive for it 11) Learn to listen 12) Own your mistakes 13) Never compromise your morality 14) Never lose sign of the competition 15) Watch your back 16) Don’t procrastinate 17) Don’t do anything by half-measures 18) Be nice to people 19) Negotiate from a position of strength 20) Expect the unexpected 21) Perception is reality 22) Don’t get emotional 23) Be fearless 24) Pick your battles 25) Grow a think skin 26) Take chances 27) When you commit, you really have to commit.

“The Dream” was one of the dreams of Gurbaksh Chahal , which came true in October 2008. The Dream is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and all major bookstores. To know more about Gurbaksh Chahal, please visit the site http://www.chahal.com

An individual who is struggling from the financial crisis and worries about his financial future then the eBay selling is the best example. In the present situation an individual is traveling through the toughest economic conditions and there are no jobs which actually satisfies the individual’s needs in the financial term.

There are many people who are not having enough money to satisfy there basic needs as the economy is getting costlier every day. An individual can change his lifestyle and the way of earning through eBay. There are people who understand the procedure in which the individual gets financial problems when he spends more then the amount he earns.

Different ways

For making the serious money with the eBay the individual should have the constant flow of work for something. You can earn huge money by selling the products and services of various different companies by the help of wholesalers.

They are the people who directly ship the products from the warehouse to the customers once the sale is made. Simple marketer can not see the product but just can have the information about it where as a wholesaler can provide the detail information about the product with pictures as well. But the wholesalers can not directly sale the product as there are professionals who are available for the marketing of product and providing the information to the customer.

Fastest and effective way of making money

An individual can earn lot of money through eBay as it is the fastest and the most effective way of selling various items which can be in use of the individual. The best sellers are having a great benefit as they use the help of drop shippers so that the product can be sent to the customer directly.

There should be proper research which has to be conducted by the seller as there are many frauds and difficulties which are on the way. All the work should be planed in advanced as planning is the only perfect thing which an individual does because it is his own thinking involved in it. There should be proper target and goal set by the individual before caring out any work.

In order to earn lot of money from eBay the individual should become more creative and should have the ability to sell the product. There should be proper survey conducted in the market regarding the ends and wants of the customers and which product will they prefer and at what rate the product can be sold. The seller should have all the information regarding the latest trends which are taking place in the near by areas.

Proper use of facilities

Using all the latest technologies and power of eBay the individual can earn lot of money and can have a better financial future. EBay can help the individual in solving the problem and put an end on the financial problems. The individual should be creative and have good selling skills then the work from him becomes much easier and can earn lot of money through eBay.