Pain whether it is physical or emotional may at times be reasons to make people change. Poor grades at school remind us that we need to study. Finding ourselves in debt reminds us of the difficulties we face looking for and finding a source of income. When we are humiliated we are given the ‘push' to speak up for ourselves, and fight to save ourselves from the next humiliating experience. It could be a sad experience, a friend's tragedy, a great movie, or perhaps an inspirational book which will enable us to get up and find the perfect motivation we need to bring order and improvement to our lives.

With the huge amount of negatives the world continues to throw at us, how on earth can we keep ourselves motivated? Give these tips a try. Below is a guide for you to follow to help you on your journey to self improvement.

1. Always endeavor to achieve your dreams. Keep clear of negative people, and negative places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

2. Always believe in your self, and everything you can do.

3. You have to consider what is going on in your life from every angle and aspect. Your motivation can only come from your determination. To have an understanding of life, you must see the world from both sides.

4. Never Ever give up and don't ever give in. Thomas Edison failed more than three times before having success with his invention of the perfect incandescent light bulb. Turn motivation into your steering wheel.

5. Enjoy your life. Carry out your work as if you don't really need the money. If you dance, then just dance as if no one is watching you. Love as if nothing else matters. As you learn feel that you can live forever. Motivation occurs when we are at our happiest.

6. Family and most of all friends are our life's greatest treasures. Never lose sight of this.

7. Always be willing to give more than you feel is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place? At work? At home? At school? It occurs at all of these places and more. You will always find motivation when you exert that extra effort in everything you do.

8. Hold on to your dreams. They may just hang there in front you for a while, however your dreams will become your driving force.

9. Always ignore those people who try to put you down. Never allow other people to get the better of you. Stay away from negative people, the sort of friends who are always jealous of your success.

10. Always be your self. Being your self is always the key to success. And the road to failure is when you always try to please everyone.

11. Continue to try no matter how hard your life may seem. When you are motivated, eventually you will see the harshness your life finally clearing out, which then paves the way to self improvement.

12. The most important person to love is your self. Now how easy is that?

13. Go out of your way to make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams become a part work clothes.

14. Never tell a lie, Never cheat and most of all Never steal. Always play a fairly.

15. Open up your eyes. We should always try to have an attitude of a horse; we have all heard the term horse sense. They see things in two ways - how they want things to be, and how things should be.

16. Practice always makes perfect. Practice is all about motivation. It allows us to learn and how we can recover from our mistakes.

17. Never be a quitter because quitters never win. And winners are those who never quit. So, you must choose your fate, are you going to be a quitter? Or will you be a winner?

18. Make yourself ready. Motivation is about being prepared. Each and every one of us can hear that little voice which keeps telling us to get started before others, so no one has time to get to their feet and start pushing us around. Always remember, when Noah built the ark, it wasn't raining.

19. Cease your procrastinating.

20. Be in control of your life. Self discipline and self control is synonymous with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

21. Ensure that you have an understanding of others. If you are well versed in talking, you should now learn the art of listening. Strive to understand first, and then to be understood second.

22. Visualize things. Motivation without vision is like owning a boat and keeping it on dry land.

23. Want something more than anything. Dreaming is all about believing. And to have belief is that little something which is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

24. Having the X Factor is the thing which will make you different from the others. When you have motivation, you will tend to put in an extra effort in your life, like having extra time for your family, or offering extra help at work, giving extra care to friends, and so on.

25. Remember, you are unique. No one anywhere in this world looks like you, acts like you, or even talks like you. You must truly value your life and existence, because you are only going to have it once.

26. Aspire to making your dreams come true, and just go for it!!!

James Bowie
http://bowiebooks.com