Motivating your employees will automatically motivate you, but you need to be able to motivate yourself. Below are 5 ways that will help you get motivated

1. Goal Setting: set up your life goals with a strong desire to achieve them

• Write a list of everything you wish to have, to do, or to be
• Put them in order of priority
• List the 3 most important goals you want to achieve more than anything in your life
• Put a time frame by which you would need to achieve those goals
• Adopt the one-inch concept: every single day, do something to get you one inch closer to your goal
• Every night before you go to sleep, read your goals and visualize yourself achieving them
• In the morning, rewrite your goals in the present tense: I’m 140 lbs, I’m making 200K/yr, I’m a hafidh, I’m the GM of … and visualize yourself again achieving them
• Do this early in the morning and I can assure you, with the will of Allah, that you will be highly motivated and on your way to making your dreams come true.

2. Personal Development: if you keep doing the same task over and over, you will get the same result

• Get out of the comfort zone and do something new
• Buy tapes/CDs and listen to them on your way to work…
• Read books and magazines for at least 20 minutes a day
• Learn new skills by going to seminars
• Improve your self-esteem and self-worth

3. Special Interest: do you have a special hobby or interest?

• No matter what it is, do it often
• If you don’t have a hobby, try to find one because it’s important to have a balanced life.

4. The Club of Interest: start a club of excellence like an Ameer Club…

• Choose a handful of successful and positive minded Ameers, leaders, managers… and meet once a week. Set the time for the meeting
• Every week, the entire meeting shall be dedicated in solving a participant’s major problem/challenge
• Put hands together until many possible solutions are found. Every week, you will all learn something new and feel motivated

5. The Success Journal

• Get yourself a notebook and every single day write your achievements in it
• Focus on what you did not on what you didn’t do!
• Record them daily because they will become your testament to your power, your abilities, your achievements
• Read them daily and say :”I DID IT” ” I CAN DO IT AGAIN”

You can be highly motivated, all you really need is the desire and the commitment to keep yourself motivated, no matter what happens.

Until the next post, assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah

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