Motivation Empire Blog

If you are a woman entrepreneur starting up a business for the very first time, chances are, you don’t know what the heck you’re doing.

That’s the way it was for me. You, too?

I worked hard to get my website up, spent endless days trying to identify my niche market, labored to create a great product and service, and struggled to build my client list. And when it came time for clients and customers to take action… they didn’t.

Have you ever looked around at successful businesswomen and wondered what they have that you don’t have? How they got that way? Well I certainly did, when success didn’t happen for me quickly.

What I’m about to tell you turned my wretched business start-up into a thriving success. And it’s also turned many of my floundering clients into lasting business successes.

I’ll tell you my secret—right here—and show you how you can do the exact same thing. There’s nothing mystical or magical about it. It’s not a quick fix or get-rich-quick scheme. Instead, it’s what every master of business success does. It’s the three-part key to long-term, lasting, and sustainable business success.

The Three Ps of Lasting Business Success

1. Persistence

Persistence means that you keep at it day-after-day, month-after-month, and year-after-year. You keep keeping at it, even through the occasional fumble, intermittent failure and repeat mistake. Persistence means you stay with it. You are unrelenting in your pursuit of business success.

Follow the example of other successful businesswomen. Look to Oprah Winfrey, Indra Nooyi, Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, and Marissa Mayer, Vice President at Google, for your inspiration. They aren’t successful just because they’ve applied themselves for one year or even ten. Nor are they successful by luck. By the time they became successful, they’d already been at it for a very long time. Their success looks easy because they’d already have success momentum going for them.

Start now to act as if you are currently successful and will be for the rest of your life. Then be persistent.

2. Patience

Be patient. Just about every woman I’ve helped start up a business has been impatient for results. Many of them wanted to start up a business right away, turn a profit in less than a year, and franchise in two.

Often this lack of patience is characteristic of women who’ve had an unsuccessful mindset for many, many years. Now they are desperate to turn their thinking around and be successful immediately. Changing a mindset that has become conditioned to being unsuccessful, though, takes time. Be patient. Think like a baby learning to walk. You will fall down many times before you’re able to string a succession of steps together. Focus on the goal. Be patient with the results.

3. Practice

Masters are people who understand what it takes to be successful. If you examine the lives of professional dancers, Olympic gymnasts, concert pianists, or anyone who has gained mastery in a specific area, you’ll discover that they have one thing in common: They’ve had a lot of setbacks.

What made the difference was not how they dealt with those setbacks but how they practiced success. Mastery in any area comes from daily practice. So, focus on what will lead you to business success. Then practice.

Persistence, patience, and practice are the three Ps of lasting business success. Every successful businesswoman knows this. It’s what made Oprah, Indra, and Marissa successful. It’s what will make you successful, too. What’s your plan to start building success momentum and set your course toward thriving business success?



By: Susan L Reid

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Motivation can be defined in numerous ways, but there are two basic definitions or descriptions. It can be defined as the main reason or reasons that individuals partake in a certain behavior, specifically human behavior pursuant to the study of psychology or neuropsychology. It can also be defined as the driving force that initiates and drives an individual’s behavior. It is the internal energy that propels us to achieve our goals. Typically, it is considered to be a dynamic state of mind not concerned with personality.

There are three aspects of human behavior that motivation is based and founded in:

1. arousal of behavior

2. direction of behavior

3. persistence of behavior

Arousal of behavior relates to a specific thing that activates behavior whereas direction of behavior relates to what is responsible for directing the behavior. Persistence of behavior relates to how the behavior is sustained.

What drives an individual to be successful is referred to as motive. Usually, all motives fall into one of three categories and are considered to be physiological or psychological in nature:

1. homeostatic motives - hunger, respiration, thirst, etc.

2. nonhomeostatic motives - curiosity about the environment, seeking shelter, etc.

3. learned or social motives - achievement, approval, power, social affiliation, etc

In any endeavor that an individual undertakes, motivation (or the lack thereof) is the key element behind the success or failure of the endeavor. It plays a key role in the workplace where the effective performance of an employee is concerned. Management or supervisory personnel have a direct impact and play a significant role in employee motivation in that they employ different motivational techniques to raise productivity levels. It also follows that this has a direct effect on the cooperation levels between the employer and the employee.

Motivation can also be classified as

1. negative or positive

2. obvious or subtle

3. intangible or tangible

Education or learning is also interrelated with motivation and instructors will oftentimes employ motivational techniques to get their students to learn. It can benefit the student by making them more competent as well as encouraging confidence and the ability to solve problems.

Self-motivation has also been classified into two different types:

1. Extrinsic - generated by external factors

2. Intrinsic - generated by internal sensations and is longer-lasting than extrinsic

Self-motivation is considered to be intrinsic in nature, and originates from an individual’s internal drives. It is the basis for overcoming obstacles in the path of achieving one’s goals. Additionally, certain external factors are responsible for driving a person into undertaking a new project or to move in a positive direction. Characteristically, self-motivation is comprised of three factors:

1. beliefs

2. desires

3. values

Since an individual cannot rely on others for motivation, self-motivation has to come from within. It plays a key role wherein the individual gathers the courage and strength to achieve certain goals, and is essential for developing new undertakings or making a positive change in one’s lifestyle. Training programs have been proven to be the best way to educate oneself in order to improve motivation and self-motivation.



By: Scott Barker

About the Author:

Motivation can be defined in numerous ways, but there

are two basic definitions or descriptions.  It can be

defined as the main reason or reasons that individuals

partake in a certain behavior, specifically human

behavior pursuant to the study of psychology or

neuropsychology.  It can also be defined as the driving

force that initiates and drives an individual’s behavior.  

It is the internal energy that propels us to achieve our

goals.  Typically, it is considered to be a dynamic state

of mind not concerned with personality.

There are three aspects of human behavior that

motivation is based and founded in:

1. arousal of behavior

2. direction of behavior

3. persistence of behavior

Arousal of behavior relates to a specific thing that

activates behavior whereas direction of behavior

relates to what is responsible for directing the behavior.

Persistence of behavior relates to how the behavior is

sustained.

What drives an individual to be successful is referred

to as motive.  Usually, all motives fall into one of three

categories and are considered to be physiological or

psychological in nature:

1. homeostatic motives – hunger, respiration, thirst, etc.

2. nonhomeostatic motives – curiosity about the environment, seeking shelter, etc.

3. learned or social motives – achievement, approval, power, social affiliation, etc

In any endeavor that an individual undertakes,

motivation (or the lack thereof) is the key element

behind the success or failure of the endeavor.  It plays

a key role in the workplace where the effective

performance of an employee is concerned.  

Management or supervisory personnel have a direct

impact and play a significant role in employee

motivation in that they employ different motivational

techniques to raise productivity levels.  It also follows

that this has a direct effect on the cooperation levels

between the employer and the employee.

Motivation can also be classified as

1. negative or positive

2. obvious or subtle

3. intangible or tangible

Education or learning is also interrelated with

motivation and instructors will oftentimes employ

motivational techniques to get their students to learn.  It

can benefit the student by making them more

competent as well as encouraging confidence and the

ability to solve problems.

Self-motivation has also been classified into two

different types:

1. Extrinsic – generated by external factors

2. Intrinsic – generated by internal sensations and is

longer-lasting than extrinsic

Self-motivation is considered to be intrinsic in nature,

and originates from an individual’s internal drives.  It is

the basis for overcoming obstacles in the path of

achieving one’s goals.  Additionally, certain external

factors are responsible for driving a person into

undertaking a new project or to move in a positive

direction.  Characteristically, self-motivation is

comprised of three factors:

1. beliefs

2. desires

3. values

Since an individual cannot rely on others for motivation,

self-motivation has to come from within.  It plays a key

role wherein the individual gathers the courage and

strength to achieve certain goals, and is essential for

developing new undertakings or making a positive

change in one’s lifestyle.  Training programs have been

proven to be the best way to educate oneself in order

to improve motivation and self-motivation.



By: Scott Allen Barker

About the Author:

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Why do people succeed? Richard St. John compacts seven years of research into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success (Hint: Passion, persistence, and pushy mothers help) (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 3:40)