10 Ways to Supercharge Your Self Motivation - part 9

As we come to the last couple of steps, this is not the end, but just a start. This is the time to embark on a transformative journey towards personal and professional triumphs. In this step, you'll discover the art of documenting achievements, setbacks, and growth, unlocking the key to self-reflection and a roadmap to your most fulfilling successes.

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That's what step 9 to Supercharge Your Self Motivation is all about - keeping a success journal.

9.Start a Success Journal

Maintain a personal success journal.  Keep your written goals in a private folder so that you can read them aloud each morning.  Be aware of the intermediate deadlines you have set for yourself. Regularly annotate your goals and record your progress.  Make mid-course corrections and fine tune your goals. 

The road to success is always under construction, so review your success strategies and plans regularly.  Modify them when necessary to reflect changing conditions.  Repair your plans and avoid the potholes of life.  Most unsuccessful people experience failure because they lack flexibility in creating new plans to take the place of those that failed.  If the wind, or anything else, blows you off course, make a mid-course correction.
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Regularly step back and evaluate where you are and where you are headed.  Use your success journal like a goals diary of your trip to destiny.  Let your journal become your source of success.  Open and read from it daily.

When I teach this in schools, I often use the example of John Goddard. "When I was fifteen," he told LIFE Magazine, "all the adults I knew seemed to complain, 'Oh, if only I'd done this or that when I was younger.' They had let life slip by them. I was sure that if I planned for it, I could have a life of excitement and fun and knowledge". So, in 1940, when he was fifteen years old, he wrote down a list of one hundred and twenty-seven goals he wanted to accomplish. ​
Goddard learned to fly a plane: goal number 40. Checking off number 42, he went skydiving. Goddard climbed many of the world's tallest mountains, including Mt. Kilimanjaro — another goal. In 1951, he became the first man to kayak the entire length of the Nile River, fulfilling his goal of exploring one of the world's longest rivers.. 

And he kept a journal of all his achievements to continually motivate and drive him. He truly led a motivated and purpose driven life! 

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