When our motivation wanes it can often be a struggle to regain it. The key to sustaining motivation is often in how you initially take action to make changes in the first place. In order to prevent our 'Motivation Disablers' from sabotaging our goals we need first to consider how to put into place our 'Motivation Enablers' as we start to take action for change.

Mid-life can be a time of crisis and upheaval or a time of great opportunity. It all depends on whether we let fear paralyze us or use it to motivate us. It is up to us to harness the fear of our own mortality and to make the most of the second half of our lives.

In life, there will come a time when you have to admit a few things to yourself...if you dare. Real life is not a rehearsal for what's to come, it IS the main event. How do you conduct yourself? Are you someone of worth or are you instead, someone that isn't worth a second glance. Ultimately it's entirely up to you.

Have you ever set out to accomplish something, and well, it just didn't happen? Maybe you can remember a time where you wanted to start a project, and became overwhelmed at the size of the task at hand, and never got to finish. Whatever the case may be, many of us have countless "piles", "stacks", and half completed projects complicating our lives.

This title is a line of dialogue from a movie I recently watched. I shared it with a friend who emailed back, "What does THAT mean?" I suppose it could mean we wish the opposite of what we're afraid of were true instead.

How many days do you sacrifice to meaningless activities? I say sacrifice, because when you let any day go by without nurturing and spending time furthering your dream, you are killing previous progress. Let me say that again, you are killing previous progress. You may complain that others are holding you back, because you don't make enough or are not appreciated enough or loved enough, or whatever your preferred excuse is, but the truth is that the killer of your dream lives within your home.

What do all the most successful people have in common? Mind power is the number one answer...do you know how to achieve that?

The one thing we want to avoid is failure. How we act when things go wrong determines how long before they are right again. Learn how failure will lead to success.