We all need a little motivation sometimes

Bill Gates

I bet even Bill Gates sometimes needed a bit of a kick up the bum and a motivational talk on occasion.

None of us are immune to a down day or even a lazy day. It happens to the best of us. Perhaps more now than, say, 10 years ago when business was booming, we were cash rich and life was somewhat easier.

Life can be a slog but I recently read a really insightful and highly inspirational quote by Nelson Mandela in his Inaugural Speech of 1994:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not service the World." 

I saw this quoted recently on http://www.newmaninitiatives.co.uk/, a hugely encouraging website not filled with fluffy advice but with useful, practical and inexpensive tips on getting you and your work team motivated.