Motivation, Inspiration, Implementation for Solopreneurs
Motivational quotes with actionable steps to help you reach your goals and achieve great things.
Unleash Your Inner Awesome
The Solopreneur's Guide to Staying Motivated
by Carly Ries
Solopreneurs often have big dreams, but having big dreams is easy. Achieving those dreams can be hard. Really, really hard.
In fact, only 8% of people actually reach their New Year’s resolutions every year. 8%!
What is it that makes it so difficult for the vast majority of people to get what they set out to achieve?
While everybody’s answer is different, we can all agree that you need to have continued motivation to reach your goals.
As a longtime solopreneur, I’ve always found motivational quotes to be helpful to surround myself with while taking on new endeavors, but as great as these phrases may be, I’ve never actually come across clear step-by-step instructions of how to actually achieve the purpose of the quotes.
This really bugged me, and I figured I wasn’t alone, so instead of setting out to search for this content, I decided to create it, and that’s what you’re looking at right now.
The following guide includes nearly thirty motivational quotes (plus some bonus material) with step-by-step suggestions of how to achieve them.
This guide is meant to serve as motivation and inspiration. You should know it isn’t written by a trained life coach, professional mentor, or psychologist. I’m not coming to you with a clinical background or professional guidance that a counselor would.
What I am coming to you with is years of experience with goal-seeking ups and downs, and lots and lots of research to try to figure out how to become a part of the select few who reach their dreams.
I’m simply a person like you. A person who has purchased a gym membership in January only to stop going in February. A person who has had career highs, and career lows. A person who is still trying to figure everything out.
So cheers to unlocking the greatness within you and to your next steps in becoming a part of the “8% Club.”
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Table of Contents.
- Chapter 1: Be Your Biggest Cheerleader
- Chapter 2: Overcome Distractions
- Chapter 3: Develop Focus
- Chapter 4: Set Goals
- Chapter 5: Seize Opportunities
- Chapter 6: Overcome Failure
- Chapter 7: Achieve Greatness
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"We are who we believe we are."
- C.S. Lewis
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” Who knew the children’s book, The Little Engine That Could, could have such a profound message that would be carried into the rest of our lives?
As kids, we think we can do anything, whether it’s growing up to be a veterinarian or believing that you could fly. Whatever your belief was, the best part is that you truly believed it was possible.
As we grow up, we seem to lose that unwavering confidence in ourselves. We experience failures, criticisms, and even negative self talk when things don’t go our way.
But what if we were able to get those childhood beliefs back? What if, as adults, we became our own biggest cheerleaders, despite any negativity and roadblocks that come our way?
The possibilities would be endless. And the possibilities can be endless.
In order to do great things in this world, you need to believe you can be, and currently are, great. Only you can make things happen for yourself to truly move mountains in your life. You just need to believe you can. Grab the pom-poms because it’s time to start cheering yourself on. It’s time to become your number one fan.
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Dream big. Many of us are told this often throughout our lives but few of us actually do it. Why is that? Why do we so often impose limits on ourselves?
“When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut” is a lot easier than “I’m grown up, now how do I become an astronaut?”
The reality is, dreaming big is easy. Actually going for that dream is scary. Really scary.
But you know what’s even scarier? Waking up one day realizing that it’s too late.
Overcome your limiting beliefs. Reach higher than you ever thought possible, and if you don’t make it to the very top, odds are you had one amazing adventure attempting it while learning a lot and doing a lot along the way. If you only strive to achieve small things, your rewards and the journey themselves will also be small.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
Did you know that when you surround yourself with positive people, you actually start being more positive (glass half full, anyone?)? Your attitude on how you approach things actually changes for the better, allowing you to be more productive and accomplish the things that you set out to achieve.
When you surround yourself with negative people, it actually has the reverse impact and can take a huge toll on your path to success (and happiness in general). If you receive ninety-nine positive reviews or compliments and one negative, you’re going to dwell on and pay attention to that one negative comment, which can be a huge distraction from almost everything else going on in your life. It’s just how we’re wired, so it’s important that you try to surround yourself with positive influences in order to keep your momentum going forward.
Negativity is contagious. You don’t want it to become your primary thought pattern.
The issue is, completely cutting toxic people out of your life is often easier said than done. What if the person is a co-worker you sit next to or even family? It’s important that you take precautions to ensure they have as minimal of an impact on you as possible.
You need to stick to who you are and surround yourself with the people who support you and support your goals and ambitions. As the great Dr. Seuss once said, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter.”
