Chances are phenomenal that at least one time in your life, while driving, your car has run out of gasoline. When it happened, you undoubtedly were a little frustrated, since things like that always happen at the “worst possible time.”
Question: Have you ever deliberately run out of gas, or do you keep your eye on the gas gauge?
Chances are good that you take precautions to make certain you don’t run out of gas.
Another question: If you had to drive from coast to coast, would you try to make it non-stop?
Obviously, you would stop and fill up as you go.
I’m leading up to a point:
Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. We must be motivated by need, desire, excitement or something that gets us into action. What many people do not realize is that we need to fuel that motivation with encouragement by reading good books, attending inspirational seminars and listening to inspiring messages while we’re in our cars.
Regularly, someone will tell me that when they get “a little bit down,” they ‘plug in’ a tape or CD and it invariably gives them that lift they need. My question is always, “Why would you wait until you get ‘down’? Why not make it a way of life, so that as you drive, you automatically plug in some words of encouragement?”
It’s easier to stay “up” than it is to get “up.” Additionally, motivation is most beneficial when we are already inspired and “high.” Then, when we fuel the motivational engine, we will come up with more creative ideas. So keep your motivational tank full, and I’ll see you at the top!
DON’T LET PLEASURE KILL YOUR HAPPINESS
It’s my conviction that unless there is a little pleasure in life, one cannot be a happy person. Some people are satisfied with a few limited pleasures, but for most, pleasure is important.
Here’s a yardstick you need to use before you indulge in any pleasure: “Can I repeat this pleasure indefinitely and be happy?” If the answer is no, you want to be wary of indulging in that pleasure.
Greta Palmer wisely observed, “Those only are happy who have their minds on some object other than their own happiness — on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means but as itself an ideal end.”
Take this approach to happiness!
