Motivation Tips From Video Games
Sometimes it’s tough to stay motivated when you’re in business for yourself.
When you’re just starting out, it’s tough to BELIEVE you’ll see the results. You might work on your business, and not see any results from it for weeks or months. You ‘re going through the foundation building process.
Successful entrepreneurs face a similar issue. One you get to certain levels in business, it’s easy to get satisfied. You’re happy with where you’re at. It becomes difficult at times to keep things moving and advancing. And yes, I know this because I deal with it at times. I’m quite happy where I’m at in business, so it’s tough at times to find the motivation to push forward, learn more, and advance.
When you deal with internet business, you’re ALWAYS learning more.
How do the masters of motivation do it?
I’m not just talking about the big self-help speakers and business leaders, although they’re obviously masters of motivation to do what they do.
What about other industries? Video game companies for example are absolute masters of motivation.
I like to play games at times (I own an Xbox 360, PS3, and have a separate game computer).
The entire industry is based off of getting you to spend more time playing their games. They have to “motivate” you to keep playing so you’ll keep buying.
Their industry makes ours look like child’s play.
For example, you here a lot of people excited about big million dollar product launches. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 4.7 million copies in 24 hours (that’s $310 million in sales). That’s a nice product launch.
What about continuity income? Well, World of Warcraft boasts of 11.5 million subscribers paying in the neighborhood of $15 a month each (they have several subscription plans). That’s serious business.
How do they keep their customers paying them month after month?
Do searches online and you’ll find there are a dozen plus sites targeted to helping people with “World of Warcraft addiction.” They’ve built a game that people play so much that it’s called an addiction (whether or not that is true is not the point of this article).
What have they done in their game that makes people so motivated to play it and ignore the rest of their lives (which of course is obviously bad)?
It’s all about the carrot on the stick.
Players keep playing day-after-day and month after month to get to that next level for their character to get another piece of armor for their character. They’re receiving constant little rewards. They get more rewards the more time they spend playing.
That’s how they keep their members for months and years. What about a one time purchase game like the Call of Duty? They’re considered a big game for playing online against other players (and co-op playing together). As someone plays online, they earn experience for their accomplishments and unlocks additional options such as weapons, character upgrades, etc.
So they’re applying the same type of reward system. You’ll find this common through the majority of popular games today.
How can you apply a little of this concept to your online business?
When talking to Glenn Livingston one day, he gave me an idea that helped working with Adwords. He said to think of Adwords as a video game. You’re trying to improve your score in all the major areas (better conversions, CTR, quality score, etc.) Each day when you’re playing the game, you’re keeping track of these scores.
Not only that, but you’re playing pvp (player-versus-player) on Adwords because you have all these other companies in your industry trying to beat you at the game.
If we added the carrot on a stick idea to this video game idea, that would mean we’d also add little rewards for reaching specific “levels.”
How do you reward yourself for the accomplishments in your business? Instead of just listing some ideas here, I want to hear from you. Have you built any rewards into your business? What are they?
If you want to get motivated, check out this video over at Meet the Giants. It removes ALL excuses and rights to complain about your situation (plus you can sign up to get a load of additional motivational tips while you’re there).
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i own an internet business… i enjoy working from my beachfront house in brazil. i recommend you also get into the online business kick
Terry,
Thanks for sharing that video. If someone with no arms or legs can do what he is doing, then what is our excuse? We can get up as many times as we fall, but its a personal choice.
Rewards can definitely motivatiing and they don’t have to cost a lot of money. It could be spending more time with family or giving yourself some reflection time at the end of the week.
Nick Vujicic has been one of my absolute favorite heroes since the first time I saw a video of one of his presentations.
Thanks so much.
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That’s pretty great advice, Terry! Definitely takes the pressure off, and encourages you to just keep improving day by day. And most importantly, it cultivates long-term results.
Very nice post. Thanks for the motivation!
~Liz Hastings
Hi Terry
Motivation is something I’ve ben working on with some of my clients. We all have something that motivates us and we need to tap into it to keep us focused on our business – testing, measuring and improving all we do
It isn’t just about hard work though. One of my motivators is the flat I’ve bought down on the Jurraisic coast here in the UK. I can go their to work and to enjoy life with my wife … a great motivator
Thanks for the post … and further motivation
Terry,
I love the analogy from Glenn. What a great and motivational way to look at it.
I’ve been just thinking about rewarding myself somehow. Now I’m going to get more serious about it.
Stone Dupree
It is really fun to think of your life as a videogame. It is also a helpful reminder that life should be something that we love and enjoy (which can be a motivating force in-itself).
As far as my blog is concerned, I would say I have only faced my first boss fight and I am now on Level 2. Keep pushing forward and I will reach that finish line (and hopefully unlock some bonus features!)
Great article!
thanks for sharing this video..i have an internet business too.. and i think if we enjoyed doing our business, we well be automotivated..
this a great post..thanks for sharing
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I’ve watched the video, and have seen Nick before, he is a true inspiration to all of us.