Where to find inspiration and motivation

hi folks and welcome back to meaningful money today we're talking about inspiration and motivation money is a long-term game it takes a long time 20 30 40 years to win with money unless of course you win the lottery 35 million quid won by somebody this week that's a lot of money now between you and me that kind of money causes as many problems as it fixes so let's not hanker after it too much okay so it takes a long time to win and along the way there's plenty of opportunity for ups and downs good days and bad days now those bad days have the potential to hold you back derail you even and make you lose some of the momentum that you had in pursuit of your goals now you might be the kind of person who after one of those setbacks can pick yourself up dust yourself off and start running again with the same level of momentum that you have before now I'm the kind of person who if I have a bad day sometimes that can really set me back and almost threaten to derail me completely so I need a kind of ongoing dialogue a soundtrack if you like of inspiration and motivation to keep me going when times are hard now if you're a bit like me I reckon there are five ways that you can continually be inspired and motivated the first is the written word so books and blog posts we're in the area of Amazon and Google of course so there's an infinite supply of this two books that I'm reading at the moment I don't have to hand hey here's the first one the askgaryvee book gary vaynerchuk is one of my online heroes he's a business guru really primarily as well as a social media and online marketing superstar so I read his book for information but more importantly for inspiration and motivation next up is tony robbins money master the game only just started this one but i know i'm going to get a lot from it both in practical terms and also inspiration and motivation next up is podcasts I know a thing or two about that I have one myself and I get emails every day from listen telling me how I have inspired and motivated them to make changes with their personal finance I listen to podcasts all the time whether I'm walking the dog cutting the grass in the gym in the car whatever 3 i'm listening to a lot right now the tim ferriss show which is all about high performance the model health show which is a health and nutrition podcast and then smart passive income which is all about online business all things which really float my boat and I want to learn more about and be inspired by those who are going before me whatever your area of interest is or whatever you need inspiration with there's a podcast there for you without any doubt and then there's video and fortunately we live in the YouTube era so there's an endless supply of good video content to inspire and motivate to so I watch Amie Schmidt our who is an online marketing strategist and I love how she cuts and edits her videos and the content is superb as well Casey nice that who does a daily video blog of his life again a superb filmmaker I draw inspiration from how he does what he does and I even occasionally find myself looking over my youngest daughter shoulder while she watches zoella please don't tell anyone I told you that I have a reputation to uphold you know so loads of ways of inspiring and motivating ourselves using media but there's two other ways first is heroes and or mentors so Gary Vaynerchuk who I mentioned earlier on he's a real hero of mine i watch and listen and read everything he puts out because he's a superstar businessman a superstar online marketer and I want to learn and be inspired by him now Gary doesn't have a clue who I am but I have two clients of mine who I look up to and who act as mentors to me they come to me for financial advice but I look up to them for how they manage their lives their businesses and their families and they have become mentors to me that I can learn from and be inspired by blast up we've got friends and family now family if ever there's going to be a source of motivation and inspiration for me it's my family and I imagine that's the case for many of you too but then we've got our friends who are always going to be fighting our corner cheering us on and cheering us up when we're feeling down they will always be our primary supporters and what a great source of inspiration and motivation that is so we've got lots of different kinds of media friends and family hero mentors loads of sources of inspiration and motivation no matter what your challenge whether it's personal finance which is the topic of these videos of course or life in general there's plenty of places you can draw inspiration from lots of links under the video or on the post on the website leave me a comment let me know how you draw your motivation and inspiration see you next week