Welcome to Lesson five.
This is the final lesson in the mindset module, and this lesson is called how to stay motivated, and
it's going to show you how you can keep moving forward even when the inevitable challenges arise, because
you know what they will arise.
And it's very important to be realistic that in any journey, in any career and no matter what you do.
Anything worth having doesn't come easy.
So what does that mean?
That means there's going to be challenges, there's going to be setbacks, there's going to be times
you don't know what to do for a little bit.
But when you understand how you can stay motivated, that's how you won't quit.
You won't throw in the towel.
You'll keep moving forward.
So this lesson is important because everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit.
But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
And that's a quote by David Goggins, very inspirational person.
It's author of a book, Can't Hurt Me.
And he's basically went from extremely out of shape to a navy seal and runs ultramarathons.
But it's not just the physicality that is inspirational, but it's also just his message of being able
to stay motivated and being your own source of motivation.
Because of course, it's great to have friends and family that believe in you and support you.
But at the end of the day, you need to be your own source of motivation.
And that is what's going to keep you going when you feel like quitting.
When you feel like you don't have anything left, you can't work at something anymore.
You can't figure out a certain business challenge.
That's when the winners and the losers are decided.
So the ones that keep moving forward and that stay motivated and remember their purpose and their passion
are the ones that are the most successful.
So this lesson is about different ways you can stay motivated.
And it all starts with understanding what motivation even is.
So when you break it down, what is the word motivate mean?
It means to provide an incentive, a move to action impels something inspire, drive or provoke.
So that's what motivate means.
It means something that literally is provoking you to take action.
It's inspiring you and so many people struggle with this.
They struggle.
They struggle with finding something that actually lights them up that they love.
And the truth is, all successful people are a master at staying motivated.
So if you don't have that inspiration, you really need to go back.
And before you move on, nail down what your why is because it all builds on each other.
And that is what helps you stay motivated.
Next, I want to talk about health and want to talk about wealth.
And I want to talk about relationships and the area where all of these combine is actually where motivation
lies.
These all need to be aligned for you to really be motivated at the highest level.
All millionaires, all successful people, everyone who is living their ideal life.
They have all of these areas in check because if you're completely unbalanced and you just focusing
on your money.
The chances are your health is going to suffer.
Chances are your relationships will suffer and it goes the same for any of these circles.
If you're just focused on your health and you're just not doing anything else besides, you're working
out and preparing food.
Guess what?
You're probably not going to be doing good with your relationships or with your finances and is the
same way the other way around.
If you're just hanging out with people all the time, you're just focused on your relationships or going
out and just nurturing non-business relationships that is going to really affect how much money you
can make and how good your health is because you're not, you're not living from a place of alignment.
So understand that you can do all of the things in the right way and you can focus on putting these
things into action.
But if you're living your life out of overall alignment and overall balance, it's really going to impact
you.
So make sure that you're always keeping yourself in check and you're making sure that you're coming
from a place of motivation and alignment of these three areas.
Understand that everything is connected, so diet and exercise, you might not think that that's related
to making more money.
But in reality, it is, and it's been shown time and time again when you start to look into how successful
people schedule their day.
A lot of successful people and people that have some of the biggest fortunes ever are very, very into
their physical health.
They're very into their relationships and making sure everything is combined and everything is at the
highest level that they're winning.
When they're doing everything, they're not just focusing on one area, and another part of that too
is having some sort of deeper purpose.
For some people, it's meditation.
For others, it's religion.
For others, it's just and being with yourself.
But it is all important, and it does all add to having a true millionaire and unbreakable mindset.
Next, take inventory of your life and then detox, what doesn't serve you?
Unfollow all content, friends and even family, I know this might sound like something that's harsh,
but you need to be relentless.
You're taking this course because you want to become a profitable freelancer and in order to do so in
order to be a successful entrepreneur and just be successful in business in general, you need to take
out anything that's not helping you.
So any naysayers, you need to cut them out, either unfollow them, block them, whatever it is, if
that naysayer is a friend or a family member, you need to really understand that if you want to be
successful, you can't let them impact you.
And like we spoke about earlier, you're the contents of your mind are what you feel, what you actually
become.
So you need to make sure you're very, very, very careful with what you're allowing in your life.
And when you're taking inventory of it, you're writing down who you hang out with and you're able to
look back and say, Oh, who did I hang out with last month?
That's going to help you understand how, how and where you can cut things out that aren't serving you.
Next.
Understand that you were either taking actions to build your life up or to destroy it.
You're never just staying the same and this is another misconception.
People have that everything stay in the same.
Everything's good.
The truth is, if you're not taking actions to continually build, to improve, you're actually going
to find yourself falling down because in life, there really is no middle ground when it comes to motivation,
when it comes to your mindset.
You're either doing things that you know or healthy for you in positive or you're doing things that
are not good for you.
Of course, as humans, we know that it's the devil in the angel in your head.
When you're on a diet, you always want to eat that whatever that dessert.
So understand that you're actually wired to want things that destroy you in a way.
So but when you're always taking actions and you're always making sure you're focusing on the things
that build your life, you can be in control of yourself and not the other way around, not letting
your brain control yourself.
And forming a plan, getting up early, writing your goals down and taking that action is.
It sounds so simple, but in reality, this is really what it takes to stay motivated.
You need to force yourself to do these things.
So for me, I like to get up at least a couple of hours earlier than I need to physically like, do
anything like at work, because that lets me actually have some time for myself to get a good meal and
to do whatever a workout, some yoga stretch.
You need to make sure that you have a routine, that you're forming your plan and that you're taking
action on it and you're executing because if you're just kind of waking up and just spontaneously going
about your day, you're not going to be able to stay motivated because you don't have a plan.
And when you don't have a plan, you don't know what steps you need to take.
You're just acting out of memory.
Memory is not that good.
I'm sure you don't remember what you even had for breakfast yesterday.
So remember, you need to write things down and this is all going to build on itself.
Like I said, because I'm going to show you how you can write things down, especially as it comes to
freelancing and with clients.
So don't worry, we'll get much more into that as the modules progress.
Next, Mick, health and Wellness, a priority in your life.
Understand that if you're not healthy and you can't literally show up to work, it doesn't matter how
much money you're making your health, the vessel you live in your body is the most important thing.
So some ways you can make your health a priority.
You don't need to think that this is a massive thing like two hours a day.
Every day you need to work out, just get your blood moving and start to do things that feel good for
you.
So for some, like I said, it's just working out.
For others, it's yoga.
For others, it's just doing stretching.
So wherever your body is, whatever your age is, it doesn't really matter.
There's always something you can find that is healthy to get your health in order.
And the next part about it is your diet.
Your diet can actually control the way your mind thinks.
So be careful what you put in your body as well.
When you're understanding that it's not just about how much money you make, it's not just about your
personal freedom, but it's also about your actual physical health that helps you stay motivated because
when you look good, you feel good and when you feel good, you do good.
Next to stay motivated, it's very important to always remember that great freelancers are created,
they're not born.
This is the same thing with any profession, great salespeople when it comes to the business world.
This is another reason I love freelancing and I love being an entrepreneur.
You are the one that is in control and you can get good at anything you want to.
You can become a good freelancer as long as you put in the effort, and you need to understand that
you can't look at other people and just say, Oh, yeah, well, they're lucky, they're just good at
that or they're good with people, because what it really takes is daily training.
It takes role-playing investing in yourself, just like you did with this course.
So you're on the right path.
You can create this life for yourself.
Next, being extraordinary.
And that's really what it takes to stay motivated to be a profitable freelancer.
You need to be like the most dependable person that, you know, because so many people aren't.
So many people start things and they quit.
They don't give their all.
They're not really living to their full self.
Let people know that you're different, that you're unique.
That's how all people who have a millionaire mindset act.
They're not afraid to let people know who they are.
Actions that you take.
That's what's going to set you apart from everyone else.
Everyone has an opinion.
But there's very few people who actually take the time to act on that, to form their opinions into
actions and show people through their actions, as opposed to showing people through their speech and
surrounding yourself with success.
This is vital when you're surrounding yourself with other people that are they want to grow.
People that want to do better in life, that are open minded, that are motivational.
You're going to find that that helps you be much more motivated every single day because misery does
love company.
So when people start to complain and gossip and just kind of act from this low vibration, it really
does subconsciously bring down your state of consciousness.
It really does.
Because when you're surrounded with those negativity based thoughts, those fear based thoughts, people
just always thinking that someone's out to get them and they're complaining about this and how they
don't have power and how the government's doing this and that to them.
You can't let yourself be surrounded by that.
You just have to cut that out.
And that's why this is in this module.
This is getting your mind morphed and molded to be the best and most successful freelancer possible.
So surround yourself with success.
Read those books that you want to read.
Take in that good content on YouTube, right?
So make a list of the people that you know are positive that you like talking to and reach out to them.
Make sure you're taking action to surround yourself with what you want your life to be.
And then keep her schedule jam packed, and this is another really big way to be successful and to be
motivated, because when you're always looking forward to that next thing and you always have that next
task to complete, it helps you because that motivation just keeps building and building and building.
It all starts with waking up and brushing your teeth and making your bed.
And by the end of the day, you look back and you literally completed a bunch of client work.
You got to spend time with your family when you keep your schedule jam packed.
You get more done.
And when you get more done, you are motivated.
You need to keep your schedule so jam packed that you're literally like, happy if an appointment cancels
or something.
That's how busy I'm telling you to be, because too much dead time is a problem with anyone I know for
me.
That's when doubt starts creeping in.
You need to keep your schedule busy.
Doesn't mean don't take short breaks throughout the day, but it does mean you're splitting your day
up and you're making sure that you're winning these daily battles because you don't need to just go
into the day and just hope you can get everything done.
You need to go in there knowing you're going to get everything done, and that's what helps you stay
motivated in the long run.
Now, let's get into the top 10 ways to stay motivated to finish this lesson off.
Number one dress for success.
I suggest that you be the most professionally dressed person, no matter where you are, and it doesn't
matter.
Let's say you're on a webinar dress for success.
Let's say you're going to meet up with a client in person or you're just going on like a family vacation.
Dress for success because you want to look like you can buy the products that you sell.
You never know when a new opportunity is going to arise.
And on top of that, when you look good like we said you feel good and when you feel good, you're more
motivated to do things, you're more motivated to talk to people.
And even just showering and feeling clean can ultimately shape your whole day and shift your thinking.
Show up early, even when you don't want to, even when you're exhausted and your eyes are tired.
Showing up early to work, showing up early to meetings, it doesn't matter what it is, this is going
to help you stay motivated.
This is what all successful people do.
So don't pass up on this and don't let yourself think that it's not important.
It really is, and it shows that you're going to go above and beyond.
And once you start doing these actions and they become a routine, it reshapes the way you feel and
you feel more motivated because you know you have to get up early, you know, you have to show up early
and that's how people start to view you.
And once people view you a certain way, it starts to help you really become it.
Next, stay late.
You really just have to shift your thinking away from the nine to five mindset where as soon as it hits
five, you just have to shut off work and you're free.
And remember what I said about you still can control your whole schedule.
So it doesn't mean if you don't like working late, you can still wake up five a.m. and you can get
your shift done by like the afternoon if you want.
What I mean by staying late is just being willing to put the work in.
Be so passionate that you're happy to work later than you need to.
Then you expected to to achieve that success for you and for your family.
Number four, look at how you can help others.
Every day, something I try to do is look at a way I can help someone out.
Just even if it's something simple, just reaching out to someone spreading some positivity, maybe
it's giving some help on one of my coaching clients or one of my clients has a question.
I always look to help people that are struggling, because that's another way you can really stay motivated
when you start to shift your thinking from a selfish point of view to a more altruistic point of view,
which means how can we all help each other out?
That really helps you stay motivated, and you'll feel that coming back to you.
Number five is moving your body.
Exercise a little bit whenever you feel stagnant.
Move, just be in charge of your body.
That could mean getting up and doing some stretches, let's say you want to get up, do some squats,
some jumping jacks, just getting your blood flowing will really do a lot to help you stay motivated.
Get up.
Move your body, especially when you're tired.
Eat the healthiest foods you can.
Your body is literally your vessel, so I like to think of this as putting the best gas in a race car.
If you're driving a Ferrari, right?
You don't want to put on a bunch of bumper stickers and put in like the the cheapest gas you can find
and and let it get down to.
No, you want to keep their car clean.
You want to put the best fuel in it.
You need to think about yourself, and everything you do is related to your success because it really
is.
So there's actually been studies that prove that sugar and gluten and dairy and alcohol impair the way
that your mind works and functions.
So if you can cut those things out and you can focus on eating the healthiest food that you can buy,
you're going to see that you will be much more motivated.
Number seven, always seek out those new opportunities.
Never let yourself get comfortable, always be looking to grow.
Go to workshops, two events.
Attend online webinars.
There's so many things you can do to keep looking at new opportunities, different ways to learn new
skills, even on your off time.
You know, I love to just always consume positive content to look at new opportunities, new skills
I can learn, right?
It doesn't matter how smart you are or how good your ideas are if you're not motivated to make them
happen and to always seek out new opportunities.
It's going to fizzle out.
Number eight, be the most ethical person, you know.
So I like to approach success as like an ethical issue, not a financial one.
It shouldn't just be about money.
Success should also be about doing something that you believe in that you know, is good.
So for me, something that I know is helping people like this course, like helping the clients I have.
I know that what I'm doing is ethical because I'm actually delivering what I say I can.
If you're not ethical, deep down, that is going to ultimately create guilt no matter what.
And number nine, have a higher purpose or a mission.
This all connects right back to your why you need to remember why you're doing this.
This is going to help keep you motivated when times get tough.
And number 10 keep setting new goals, as we spoke about previously, as you continue to progress on
your freelancing journey.
You need to keep setting those new goals and this is something a lot of successful people actually have
failed out at one time or another, and I've been there once you start to achieve a certain level of
success.
You stop setting goals.
You stay happy with where you're at.
So whether it's an income level, whether it's a number of clients, it doesn't matter.
But you need to make sure you keep raising the bar.
Make sure you're focusing on the future, not the past.
Keep setting new goals.
You don't have to be caught up in the past.
Be so caught up in the future and providing in the present that you can stay motivated and you can create
your own motivation from within.
So now you know how to stay motivated.
And I really hope you enjoyed this module.