I was reminded of a valuable fact, yesterday, when it comes to staying motivated so you can keep moving forward.  I have a lot of projects on my plate right now and I’ve been putting in “overtime” for the last couple of weeks.  Though, some days I’m a little tired, I’ve been making a lot of progress and it’s felt great.  Yesterday was no different, except for one big difference.  I got a “great idea” for one of the websites I’ve been working on.  It had to do with a lot of complicated, time consuming work that may or may not have been such a “great idea” anyway.  It involved purchasing some software and, after I had some issues activating it, I ended up spending a couple of hours on web forums trying to resolve the issue. Read more »

Part of staying motivated is being able to recover when you start to loose your drive.  It happens to all of us at one time or another.  Sometimes it’s just because we’re tired and other times we’ll find that we lose perspective.  Maybe you’ve just lost your vision of what you are trying to accomplish.  Either way, it is greatly important that you have a plan for recovery.  A motivational “first aid kit” as it were.  Here are 5 tips that always seem to help keep me on track. Read more »