Last Updated on September 5, 2019 by Shane Corbitt
Do you often find it hard to stay positive and motivated at work?
Are you struggling to keep focused and produce results?
We all struggle with the above issues at some point during our workday and I’d like to share a trick that I use to get me back on track.
It’s as easy as changing your environment and thinking something positive. Yes, just getting up from your desk or wherever you’re working and taking a five minute stroll through your office, outside or in your house and thinking positive thoughts can rekindle those fires of thoughts and ideas to get you going.
Stanford researchers found during a 2014 study that walking improves creative thinking. Whether you walk indoors or outdoors the results were the same.
In my experience getting outside for 10-15 minutes and enjoying nature is extremely beneficial in improving my motivational level and work efforts.
To get you moving in the right direction, here are some words of encouragement.
1. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden
2. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”
— Zig Ziglar
3. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi
4. “Don’t wait for anyone’s permission to be successful, take it.”
— Darren Hardy
5. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”
– Marissa Mayer
6. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson
7. “The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
8. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
9. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
10. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
11. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
12. “Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
13. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
14. “ People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky. They’re doing something differently than everyone else.”
—Tony Robbins
15. “Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”
— Brian Tracy
I hope this daily work hack will be as helpful for you as it has been for me. If you have any positive quotes to add or any daily hacks of your own, please share them in the comments below.
Here are a few other pieces of information to add to your day to keep it moving in a positive direction:
The 7 Areas of Life To Focus On For Fantastic Growth
7 Steps To Successful Goal Setting
5 Powerful Ways That Contribute To a Positive Growth Mindset
7 Ways To Increase Your Productivity and Be More Efficient
