创业公司新年“打鸡血”7大妙招

这几年，我又当企业家，又当作家和商业顾问。在这个过程中，我目睹了其他许多人的失败，自己也经历了无数失败。有很多少次，我深夜还在忙新项目，但最后却不得不推倒重来。可以说，我被否定的次数简直数不胜数。但经历了所有这些艰难困苦之后，我学到了一个重要的教训：必须每天都保持满满的动力。

尽管很难，但你的成功取决于你能否看到日常工作中令人兴奋和积极的事情。过分关注那些负面因素，会让你感到紧张、愤怒和担忧，从而在精神和身体上摧残你，带来可怕的后果：心脏病、长期焦虑，与朋友和家人爆发激烈冲突。

当你看到令人兴奋和积极的事情，你就会意识到你拥有足以自豪的生活。随后，你就能兴奋地迎接挑战了。但愿我发现的7大激励窍门，能帮助你取得成功。

1. 搞清楚你要走哪条路

老实说，如果你还不清楚自己的大目标是什么，你将会迷失，陷入挣扎。保持动力的最好方法就是搞清楚你要实现什么目标，以及怎样来实现这个目标。

所以，确认清楚你的目标，这样才能都将它细分为一些可以实现、而且值得庆祝的小步骤。只要你想做的事情明确且卓越，那么，它每天都会你继续努力的动力。

2. 把肯定的话语放在你能看到的地方

企业家很容易感到疲倦或沮丧，常常需要一个人承担责难。但是负面情绪会夺走你赖以维持专注和成功的精力和能量。面对挫折时，务必要保持乐观。

把你的目标贴在可以看到的地方，每天都确认你的终点。当你看到某个能让你产生正能量的句子或图画时，把它放在你面前，让你时刻提醒那些艰辛的意义所在。

3.忆苦思甜才能获得动力

一旦产生放弃创业的想法，感觉向老板汇报比自己做决定容易太多，想想你当初创业的理由：受其他人约束时，你就无法充分发挥你的天分和创造力。必要的话，抽点时间去办公室看看那些朝九晚五的朋友，你就能发现你“怀念”的究竟是什么。

4. 优先考虑他人。

在任何时候，寻找动力的最好办法就是不再想怎么让自己变得更好，而要想怎么让周围的世界变得更好。设一个目标，每天去激励一个人（或更多人）。把改善你的团体、你的家庭——一切的一切，除了你自己——加入你的目标中，你就会开始从更宏观的角度看待这个世界。这让你做的一切事情有了新的意义。

5. 每天都是全新的一天

每天早上睁开眼睛，你就要抛开前一天的负担。你必须明白一点，错误已经犯下了，事情已经弄糟了，没办法了。这就是生活。

成功企业家和失败企业家的区别就在于，成功的企业家能够通过每天的反复工作，维持自己的积极心态和好奇心。所以，挫折也可以是机遇，失败也可以是教训。一切取决于你怎么看待。

6. 建立顺畅的反馈渠道，获得最佳建议

消费者的反馈至关重要。它能排除公司成长中的问题，从而使你的产品和公司变得更加强大。

此外，反馈渠道还能传达消费者对你热情的欢迎，给你意料之外的认可。每个人都需要额外的鼓励，所以，创业公司要让这种鼓励传递得更顺畅点。

7. 与积极乐观的人在一起，才能获得正能量

如果你发现自己总是被周围的人搞得焦头烂额，或者你往往是房间里最聪明的那个人，那么，这个公司可能不适合你。

我最大的动力源泉正是来自周围那些拥有远大梦想、才智出众、充满激情、努力工作的同事。选择能促使你上进、没有思维定势的朋友，这样才能打造出优秀团队和良好的交际圈。

只有当你知道必须时刻保持警觉避免掉队时，你才会工作得更努力，考虑事情才会更长远。这些乐观同事的热情也才会在你心中燃烧起来。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

审校：任文科

In my years as an entrepreneur, author and business advisor, I have seen others fail and had countless failures of my own. I have stayed up endless late nights working on a new project, only to rip it apart and start all over again. I’ve heard “no” more times than I can count. But through all of the trials and tribulations of being my own boss, I have learned one important lesson: staying motivated is a daily choice.

Though difficult, your success depends on training your mind to see the excitement and good in your daily work. Focusing on the negative causes stress, anger and worry that wear you down mentally and physically with dire consequences: heart disease, chronic anxiety and heated outbursts with your friends and family.

When you see the excitement and the positivity in the mundane you recognize you have a life that you can be proud of. Then you are excited to attack! Here are seven daily motivational practices I’ve found that are sure to bring you success.

1. Stay clear about your path.

Honestly, if you aren’t on point with what your overarching goals are, you will end up lost and floundering. The best way to stay motivated is to know exactly where you are going, and how you’re going to get there. Reaffirm your endgame every day by posting your goals where you can see them. Break your goals down into smaller steps that can be accomplished and celebrated. What you want to accomplish should be clear, prominent and give you the energy to keep going every day.

2. Keep affirmations where you can see them.

It’s so easy as an entrepreneur to get sucked into feeling exhausted or frustrated, and often the blame is yours alone. But a negative mindset sucks up mental bandwidth and energy that you need to stay focused and successful. It is crucial to maintain an optimistic attitude in the face of setbacks. Whenever you see a quote or a picture that helps you stay positive, place it front and center so you can remember what this journey is all about.

3. Remember the grind you left behind.

When you are tempted to drop the weight of self-employment, when reporting to a boss sounds so much easier than doing what you’ve chosen, remember the reason why you are in business for yourself. Remember why you chose entrepreneurship: when you were beholden to someone else it kept you from expanding and reaching the heights of your talents and creativity. If you have to, make time to visit your friends in their 9-to-5 offices so you can remember just what you’re “missing.”

4. Think about others first.

The best way to find motivation in any situation is to stop thinking about how you can better yourself, and start thinking about how you can better the world around you. Set a goal to motivate one person (or more) each day. Expand your goals to include improving your community, your family — anyone except yourself — and you will start seeing the world in macro, rather than micro, which gives everything you do new meaning.

5. Start each day anew.

When you open your eyes in the morning, meet the day without the baggage from the previous day. Mistakes have been made, things have gone wrong. That’s life. The difference between a successful business owner and one who fails is that successful entrepreneurs train their minds through repetition to keep a progressive, inquisitive mindset. Setbacks can be opportunities, and failures can be lessons. It’s all up to how you look at it.

6. Set up effortless feedback channels.

Customer feedback is crucial. It can help eliminate the negatives in a growing business, which makes your product and company stronger. But in addition, feedback channels can also provide welcome and surprising confirmation from customers who are very happy with what you have been doing. Everyone needs that extra boost from time to time, so make it easy to receive.

7. Surround yourself with motivating people.

If you find yourself weighed down by the people around you, or you’re constantly the smartest person in the room, you’re probably in the wrong place. My greatest sources of motivation are the passionate, hard working people around me who have grand dreams and brilliant minds. Build your team and your community with people who push you to grow and think outside the box. When you know you have to be on your toes to keep up, you will work harder and think bigger. That same passion will ignite in you.