Getting “Motivated” To Do Something Is Not The Answer, It’s The Result that is measured by quantifiable data.  So motivation doesn’t necessarily lead to success. What I found was, that success produced certain desirable results, and I enjoyed the benefits of those results.

I reasoned that if I wanted more of the benefits of the results of success in any endeavor I undertook, I simply had to do the things that would make me successful in those endeavors. That’s called motivation.

Motivation, then, is a byproduct or a result of reaching a certain success, and then wanting more. Success is not necessarily an end result, or end product. Rather, it’s more the effect of doing something that results in accomplishment. It’s, as Earl Nightingale once said, “The progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”