[MadHyeNa]

Both. Yes.

Let's see-- quickly to the point:

1./ Visualize your success. Think of your goals as already accomplished in the present tense and emerge yourself into that mental imaginary. Mix in all of your senses. Feel the emotions of how great do you feel having accomplished all of your goals!

2./ Do the first step. Yes! Get up, take a deep breath, and take action. Fear of failure blocks your mind. It creates inactvity and, thus, you are idle, procrastinating, practicing wishful thinking and virtually doing nothing productive. By actually taking charge the goals will start working for you.

Realize that you can fail. Be nice to yourself and learn from your mistakes. Consider each failure as a challenge. Run your own mind and control your own life rather than suffering and being controlled.

Assume complete responsibility for the quality of your life. You are here at this state because of your past actions. Take charge of your life, grab the steering wheel of your life and start working toward your goals with a burning desire. First steps are always the hardest. So what? Would you preffer telling stories to your grandsons/daughters how you procrastinated or rather inspire them by your absolute willingless to take access and decisiviness. Think!

Step #1 fires up your motivation knowing what to expect from your future idealized self and step #2 diminishes the effects of procrastination.

You can read and listen to motivational speakers that serve as an addition to step #1. Reading biographies, listening to seminars and so forth helps you to fire up your motivation even more. Consider it as "feeding the fire of your burning desire." Do it, do it!

But then, by being in the phase of this motivational hype feeling unbeatable and powerful, take the first steps! Listening to motivational speakers, reading short stories and quotes have a temporary effect. Take action while being in that state. As long as their effects diminish you will be already right in the middle of your actions and you will fuel your own motivation without relying on external sources.

Split your goals into smaller sub-goals. As soon as you achieve one of those, you will feel energized and your confidence increases. Rinse & Repeat.