One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that true motivation comes from within individuals, and external influences can only help by eliminating barriers.
Brian Tracy's quote articulates the idea that motivation is inherently self-driven, suggesting that while one cannot directly inspire others, they can facilitate an environment that allows individuals to find their own motivation. By removing obstacles—such as fears, doubts, or external pressures—we empower people to tap into their intrinsic drive, leading to greater personal and professional fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational seminar to inspire budding entrepreneurs.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
I was beaten by police and sat in their precinct holding cell, certain that my future was already decided. And now I will be the person in charge of that precinct, and every other precinct, because I'm going to be the mayor of the City of New York.
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