Motivation is one of core qualities required for success in many areas. Without motivation, you are likely to not do anything towards your goals, which will guarantee failure, regardless of what other qualities and skills you have. As such, motivation is first thing that should be developed.

A lot of people think of motivation as excited speaker or sports coach that yells at you to get you to do something. Although having someone yelling at you can create temporary motivation, it's not motivation itself. This program on motivation won't yell at you, nor will it require that you yell at yourself, although you certainly may if you want to.

In order to develop natural motivation, there are several components that need to be in place. There are a few pre-existing conditions that are required any time you want to generate motivation to pursue a goal. These conditions are: adequate rest, proper balance in diet, adequate physical exercise, and plenty of oxygen. These conditions will prepare your body, which will provide a healthy environment for your mind.

Once your body is prepared, motivation can be created in your mind. Here again, there are several factors involved in process. You must choose to focus on process. Whether you are able to maintain that focus at this point or not is not relevant. Whatever degree of focus that you are able to devote to process will be sufficient, as it will grow in time and with use.

With this focus, you will repeat many different statements to yourself, imagining these statements as being reality. In beginning, you will notice a difference between statements and what you've experienced up until this time. As you continue with process, your inner mind will begin to accept statements as being true for you, and you may even begin remembering times in past when these statements did seem to be true. Eventually, you will only remember experiences that support new statements of belief, and they will be as true for you then as your current beliefs are now. The time required to reach this point is different for every individual and depends on many pre-existing beliefs and conditions. But as one step at a time will take you across continent, one statement at a time will change your beliefs.

The first set of statements that you will 'program' into your inner mind deal with your belief in yourself. Without belief in yourself, you will not be motivated to try anything. And more difficult task ahead of you, stronger your belief in yourself needs to be. A lot of people seem to feel that they are worthless, or not capable of anything, and this shows a very weak belief in themselves. Other people feel that they can do anything and nothing can stop them. This indicates a very strong self-belief. The majority of world fits between these two extremes. Wherever you sit on this scale of self-belief, process I am outlining will move you higher along scale. The type of statements that fall into this category sound like "I am valuable. I can do anything I want to do. I have a natural tendency to do right thing at right time. I do what I need to do when I need to do it."

The next set of beliefs that you will program into your inner mind will refer to your belief in activity that you want to feel motivated to perform. These beliefs will focus primarily on results you belief will come from performing activity. For instance, if you want to motivate yourself to get more physical exercise, then these statements of belief will be about benefits of exercise - good health, more energy, greater attractiveness, longer life, greater stamina, and that kind of thing. If you are wanting to motivate yourself to become more outgoing in social situations, your statements will focus on winning more friends, finding more opportunities, having fun, gaining respect, gaining authority, and other such benefits. The more benefits you belief are waiting for you in performing activity you are considering, more motivated you will be.

But it is also at such moments that we can see examples of outstanding people's bravery and courage. And you know, they don't even think about themselves as brave, they simply did what they thought was right.

I am referring to story of Phuket's resident Bill O'Leary, a former Australian, who saved many lives.

Just 2 minutes before first wave hit, he received a phone call from his employee, who was on beach where company's office is located, "The shoreline receded 250 meters past swim platform".

O'Leary was in sea with guests of his cruise company and his 3 children on board. He knew news spelled big trouble. The swim platform was anchored 8 meters deep. He also remembered a shake he felt earlier that morning.

Not many people in Thailand knew about tsunamis but Bill immediately recognized warning signs. Without delay, he phoned his offices and major hotels, telling them to remove people off beach, "A tsunami is coming. Clear beach and get people to high ground." He also asked other people on boat to make phone calls to places they knew.

Then he headed out to sea to face giant wave. Bill was on other side of island, further away from upcoming tsunami He was in open water when he received call from same employee that tsunami hit Phuket's beach. Bill pulled back engines and waited. Then he saw it. A 5-meter step on water traveling faster than any wave he'd seen before. He directed boat right at step and jumped on.

The guests and children were terrified as boat was riding wave and everybody was screaming. Bill managed to keep boat straight until waves passed. Looking back they could see a wall of water washing off small boats and fish farms ashore. But O'Leary and his crew were safe.