Read this if you're tempted to stop working hard towards your goal

Re-discovering your motivation can be difficult in a world where social media allows us to  see only the really positive aspects of everyone else’s life, and leads us to believe that maybe our lives aren’t as great as the people who surround us. However, the key to motivating yourself to continue working hard to meet your goals, even when it seems like you’re the only one not achieving what you want, is to keep your attitude straight and remember that everything eventually connects.

During the episode, Immediate Consequences Change Everything (#367), of The Ziglar Show, Seth Godin discusses the power of attitude and airs a clip of Zig Ziglar speaking on the subject of how important your attitude is to your life. Godin reminds us , “Sin would have few takers if the consequence was immediate.” This is so incredibly important because it reminds us that sometimes we feel like we aren’t successful because we are working hard and other people are just reaching out and getting what they want – but  it reminds us that at the end of the day the people who keep their morals straight and work hard will eventually trump the people who fall to the wayside, cheat, and/or lie to get what they want.

Of the line, “Sin would have few takers if the consequence was immediate,” Godin says, “Nothing could be more true.” If you’re unhealthy and eat food that you know is bad for you and never exercise, we all know that it will eventually break your health down. Godin points to this as an exceptional example of how gluttony, dishonesty, and the like will eventually catch up with you. He claims we all know that being unhealthy is bad for us, but that all too often we don’t do anything about it.

However, he wants you to “Imagine if it was a tangible, immediate consequence.” Imagine if the things that you did wrong had an immediate reaction right then and there. Imagine if you ate fast food or something terrible all day and the next day when you woke up, “Boom – all your hair fell out. You had fifty pounds of fat slapped onto your body overnight,” and more. Imagine this for the flip-side as well. Imagine you are healthy and exercise and “the next morning – boom, you are back to your peak!”

If this happened to us, you would likely choose to work hard every day. If you knew that the results the next day would be a direct reflection upon what you had done the day prior, you would spend every day of your life working hard.

Source: Ziglar