Taking responsibility for your own success is the best and only shortcut to success. Therefore, you should know that you are who you want to be and the limit is just within your definition. So what does this mean? It means that individuals need to be self-motivated when pursuing a destiny in their life. The inspiration to wake up every morning and do what you are supposed to be doing should come from yourself and not forced on you by someone else. It is intrinsic, not extrinsic. Everyone knows what, they want and therefore you only can drive yourself to success. Here are some of the advantages of having intrinsic motivation.

When a person is self-motivated, there is nothing like impossible since the person will work on anything that looks like a barrier and eventually make it to the other side. On the contrary, when the force is coming from someone other external force not related to the individual, it is very easy to give up and therefore the goal is not achieved. The driving force first is usually from an external source, and therefore you just work under supervision. When this person or source of power is not present, you just give up when you are faced with a barrier. This is not the right way of going by the things you have to do so as to get to the destination. Therefore, individuals should learn to be self-motivated so as to hit the targets easily.

People will have intrinsic driving force when they value the goal. When you know what exactly it is that you want, you will ultimately go for the goal, and this is because it impacts your life directly. In short, the motivation is based on the satisfaction offered by the goal that you have set. On the contrary, when the goal benefits the other parties, (because you see it that way) it then becomes very hard to keep going.

This is sometimes the case in a workplace where the staff might see there is no need of burning midnight oil, yet the job you are doing is benefitting someone else, and your salary is just fixed. This is also the reason why some companies pay sales staff based on commission so that they can stretch themselves to the limit.

Think of the miners, they will literally dig down the furrow even after exhausting the precious stone that was on the site. When they leave that site, don't be surprised when others come to scope anything that might be left there. When a person`s inspiration is coming from the inside, this is usually the case. Therefore you will make sure that you have done all the tasks just to achieve the goal that is in front of you. On the contrary, you will just be waiting for the time to pass so as to leave the office no matter how much work is on the waiting tray.

Around the beginning of each year, people start beating up on themselves, agonizing about things not accomplished in the past, and then they seek a solution in some dim, poorly thought out pledge to be and/or act differently in the upcoming year. For those of the Christian faith, it is apparent that many have confused themselves into thinking that Lent is a year round thing and that a New Year resolution is about denial. For others a resolution is not a resolution unless it is grandiose and has as an added benefit of requiring a major change in lifestyle or life direction. These are often folks who make these decisions and pledges, after having had several glasses of champagne. The lucky ones do not remember it the next day! To make a New Year resolution, one needs to understand why there is any value at all in doing so. Here are four things to consider when building sound goals for New Year resolutions.

First, the most important thing is that a resolution must be designed for success and not based on denial. Denial is bad in nearly all things. If your Faith is involved here, keep repeating "this is not Lent" as you work on your resolution!

Second, a resolution must not pledge a person to quit doing something they truly enjoy because it has a very small margin for success. Quit smoking, giving up chocolate (not Lent remember), most diet pledges and resolutions that are dependent of someone else doing something, are doomed to failure. Several years ago, a Catholic friend made a new years resolution, which called for another friend to get married that year. This is a wish; in a stretch, it may be considered a prayer. However, it is not a resolution designed for success. Creating or committing to a New Years resolution that has no margin for success, has no value. If a person does not believe the goal on which the resolution is based is achievable, then it is stupid and again, has no value. Save your stop smoking plan and diet strategies for lifestyle changes that you work on with your doctor and your fitness guru, not for a New Year resolution.

The third thing is that for a resolution to be successful, it should bring the person true personal satisfaction. To do this, the resolution must be something the individual actually wants, even desires to be different in their life. Personally, two of my best resolutions in this decade have been tremendous successes for this very reason. In, 2001 I resolved to stop wearing neckties. I have not done so since, not even at my wedding that year. Get some collarless dress shirts, a few nice print shirts and some silky mock turtlenecks and one is good to go. The following year I resolved to stop wearing a wristwatch. I do, on occasion, carry my Father's gold railroaders pocket watch and in a pinch, my cell phone will tell me the time.

Two other examples may help illustrate the strength personal satisfaction can play in a well thought out New Years resolution. While still in his teens, a fellow to whom I am close was told by his Father that one could "tell a great deal about a person by whether they kept their shoes shined." Since this person disliked shining shoes, he thought of his Father's words on any occasion that he noticed his own dull or scoffed shoes while in a group of other people. One year, he pledged to frequent shoe shine stands and get regular shoe shines. Each time he did this it made him think of his Father, of whom he was every fond. Now that is a New Years resolution!

The second example is a man who made a resolution in 1979 not to enter a church except to observe the design or architecture unless the occasion was a wedding or funeral for which he could not find a way to get out of going. Only one time has he failed to keep that pledge. On Xmas Eve of 1990, he entered Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to observe the spectacular of the Midnight Mass celebration. Not exactly grounds for branding him a backslider!

The fourth key to avoiding stupid goal-setting in New Years resolutions is to analysis the scope of your future disappoint if you fail to stick to the pledge. If you make the resolution in order to bring yourself satisfaction or even happiness, to fail to achieve the outcome will bring you neither. Failure is likely to make a person quiet disappointed with themselves. That is not a place we want to resolve to be shortly after beginning a New Year. By looking inside one's self like this, we can increase our chances of recognizing a resolution with the potential for success from one that will bring disappointment. Do not make a resolution that your head or your heart tell you will bring disappointment and make you feel bad about yourself.

Ask yourself questions based on these four tips to get at an understanding of your true conviction regarding the resolution. Is this about denial? If there is denial involved, step away from the denial. Is this a significant lifestyle change? If so, it is not likely to become a successful resolution. Will my success with this resolution bring bring me significant personal satisfaction? If the answer is yes, you are most of the way there my friend. Am I dependent on the actions of others to be successful with this resolution? If the answer is yes, move on from this resolution to one where you are the one in control. By answering a few questions of this kind and other I am sure you can think of, you will greatly increase your odds of gaining the incredible personal satisfaction of successfully living your New Year Resolutions.

In closing, here's an observation that may be viewed as a bit of a disclaimer. Resolutions that involve any kind of commitment to regular exercise should not have these rules or this analysis applied to them. Exercise is not about denial, it's about achieving the discipline and commitment to continue. It is about feeling better because you do it. This is about your health. Exercise that does not pound your body around but rather helps you maintain your muscles, heart and well-being should be in the New Year's resolution "try, try again" file. Trying and failing to achieve the commitment and discipline for success will bring disappoint, no doubt about it. The key is to keep at it until you find an enhancing activity like Yoga, walking, or maybe swimming that finally allows you success and personal satisfaction. I believe that Yoga, all by it's self can be the center of many sound goals that may provide New Years resolution success. Regular yoga practice provides an umbrella lifestyle for exercise, stress management, meditation, balance and well-being. As I said before, now that's a New Year's resolution!

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When working as an IT Staff Analyst for a major insurance and investment company one of my duties included collecting budget data from several managers. The managers were often busy with meetings, which meant that I would approach leads to see if they could supply the information. The numbers I needed were operational in nature, which meant that most people in the department had access to them. However, when I asked the non-managers for assistance, in most cases I was told that I had to wait for the manager to provide it. They made it clear that since this item was not in their job description, they weren't going to help me.

I understand that people are busy, and they have the right to tell me to go fly a kite. However, I know that top performers are going to do what is possible to provide the assistance that I need. In the example noted above, the information would take about 10 minutes to secure. Unfortunately, when the manager was busy, no one was available to help me.

I once attended a professional development seminar, and the speaker made a comment that has stuck with me. He said, "The reason we're hired to work in any company is to solve problems. If you want to increase the amount of money you earn, figure out a way to solve bigger problems." While this advice is simple, it makes a ton of sense. In my first job out of college, I was hired at Shell Oil Company as a Revenue Accountant. I spent most of my data updating oil and gas lease accounts. The work was straightforward, and once I learned the process, I could do it in my sleep. Given that the problems I was solving could be handled by any other entry level worker, the pay was average.

My goal was to become a meaningful participant for the organizations where I worked. I knew that becoming a subject matter expert (SME) was going to make a big difference in the hourly rate I could charge. As I improved my skills, and solved higher level problems for my clients, the compensation improved. Of course, it's important to know that big problems require a significant investment in time, and they carry more risk. By taking the lead in these situations, the person is going to be on the radar. It's imperative that we find the best possible solution given the factors that are present.

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