How Do I Stay Motivated and Productive Once I Achieve a Comfortable Level of Success?
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Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today's question comes from Tom, who has a question about staying motivated and productive when you reach a comfortable level of success in your business. What can he do to motivate himself to keep going? How does he keep moving forward and creating goals in his business? In this episode, I mention Pencils of Promise, the organization that inspires me to keep moving forward. You can learn more about Pencils of Promise at http://www.pencilsofpromise.org/.
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| 0:00.0 | What up? |
| 0:04.0 | AskPath.com.com. |
| 0:07.0 | What up? Welcome to Episode 774 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today. As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. And now let's get to |
| 0:21.3 | Tom's question. Here we go. Hey Pat, Tom here from Leeds in the UK. And my question for you today is |
| 0:27.2 | concerning how you stay motivated and productive once you reached a certain level of success and comfort |
| 0:33.7 | within your business. For me, it was easy to kind of be motivated at the start when, you know, I needed to pay |
| 0:39.4 | bills and so on. |
| 0:40.8 | But now I've reached a certain level of comfort. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm finding it much harder to get as motivated as I did at the beginning. |
| 0:46.7 | And I know for you, a big motivation was to be able to spend more time with your family |
| 0:50.6 | and so on. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm wondering now you've achieved that, how you set new goals for |
| 0:54.6 | yourself and stay motivated. So that's all. Thanks for all you do, Pat. And cheers. |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, Tom, thank you so much for this. You know, complacency is very evil because sometimes we get |
| 1:06.5 | into our comfort zone and we don't push ourselves anymore. And like you said, when you're starting |
| 1:10.7 | out, you're in survival mode you said when you're starting out |
| 1:11.0 | you're you're in survival mode and when you're in survival mode you take risks and you take bold |
| 1:16.1 | actions that you would never have taken otherwise that's why after i got let go and laid off in 2008 |
| 1:21.8 | that i did things that i wouldn't have done and i found this amazing world of online business |
| 1:26.2 | and and just uh crushed it and did everything I could to survive and stayed up and sacrificed hours of sleep |
| 1:33.0 | and asked questions to people who I would have never reached out to before and all these |
| 1:37.4 | kinds of things. But then as you start to become a little bit successful and as you start |
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