Do you ever feel like this: You have a meeting scheduled in 10 minutes and you’re expected to deliver a presentation. Your heart is pounding. Your palms are sweaty. Your mind is racing because there’s a lot riding on the success of your delivery at this meeting. Your boss and co-workers are relying on you. And you know you can do a good job if you could just calm down.
A Little Motivation Can Do the Trick
We all get nervous from time to time, especially when we feel like there’s something important on the line—reputation, for example, or job advancement. Sometimes, you may find that certain sage words will sit just right with you, giving you the encouragement to face what’s making you nervous—and do a killer job.
Technology is on Your Side
Your iPhone is equipped for pop-up reminders, just when you need them most. So why not use your reminder function to pop up with a few motivational words, just moments before an important event? It’s easy to set up a reminder on your iPhone in just five quick steps:
- Tap the Reminders app from your iPhone home screen. (This app comes standard with your phone.)
- Tap + in the upper right-hand corner.
- Choose Reminder from the dropdown list.
- Type in your motivational words in the text box.
- Tap Done in the upper right-hand corner. That’s it!
Choose the Perfect Motivational Words
The world is full of advice from inspirational people, or just everyday folks. You can do a Google search of “motivational quotes” and choose one that will make you feel like Rocky scaling the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Here’s a few of our favorites to help get you started:
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. -Michael John Boback
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. -Mark Twain
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut
You’re the best around—nothing’s gonna ever keep you down! -Joe Esposito from the movie Karate Kid
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. -Robert Kiyosaki
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore
The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus.-Bruce Lee
Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory.-George S. Patton
Are You Ready?
Of course you are! Set your motivational reminder on your phone, breathe deeply, and step forward toward success.
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