Posts Tagged ‘growth’

The Science of Motivation

What motivates you? While there are thousands, millions, maybe billions of answers to that question, a growing body of research, some of it dating back 50 years, shows two things that don’t motivate us very well – the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment. It seems counter-intuitive, since after all we take it for granted that we need incentives to do work. It’s the basis of our whole economic system… Continue reading

October 22 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: goal, growth, learning, mission, motivation, personal growth, reward | 20 comments»

9/11 Anniversary: Time to Bring Peace into Your Life

Today is the 8th anniversary of 9/11, that fateful day when two planes demolished the World Trade Center in New York. Everyone remembers just where they were when they heard the news. I was working in the City of London at the time and watched the world-changing events unfolding on a screen at a hairdressing salon. There was an eerie silence all around as we watched in shock, hardly… Continue reading

September 11 2009 | By Arvind | Tagged: change, difference, diversity, forgiveness, growth, peace, self-development | 20 comments»

You Want Engagement? Then Start Being Clear!

You want engagement. But no one’s buying. If you want something done you have to spell it out in detail, or even give up and get to that ugly “I’ll just do it myself” place of the defeated manager. You feel like every time you turn your back, the wheels come off the bus again. You’ve got zero engagement. So how do you fix that? Continue reading

May 8 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, change, clarity, commitment, engagement, entrepreneurship, growth, hopefulness, leadership, organizational development, teamwork, vision | 16 comments»

Six Great Ways to Vent Your Frustrations

We all have ups and downs to life. How do you deal with the downs? Do you numb yourself and avoid them? Or do you find the hidden gift held within them? Each time a painful emotion is felt, it provides an opportunity. Pain gives us the gift of growth in a hidden package. Something is shouting out for a change. If we pause and open this gift, a great secret of freedom and love can be revealed. Sometimes when the pain is large enough, we have no choice but to look at it anyway. My largest pains have helped to open the greatest growths in my life. Hey, it’s worth a shot, right? Check out these six ways to vent and clear out that frustration. Continue reading

February 27 2009 | By Danielle Marie | Tagged: clarity, frustration, growth, health, healthy living, opportunity, Venting | 20 comments»

Achieve Your Goals by Focusing on Critical Activities

What are your critical activities? Critical activities are those activities that directly move you towards your goals. Every goal has critical activities. The problem is that most of us spend significant amounts of time doing things that are not critical. Often we convince ourselves that they are something we ‘need’ to do to be successful, but usually they are things that are not critical. Step #1 – Identify your goals You can’t… Continue reading

December 8 2008 | By Danny | Tagged: accomplishment, critical_activities, goal, growth, planning, success | 8 comments»

6 Simple Steps to Make Progress Towards Achieving A Goal

Every day that goes by you either move closer towards achieving a goal or you move further away from that goal. If you take specific steps you can be assured that you are moving towards our goal. If you do nothing you are moving away from the goal. By being still, you lose momentum, and the level of inertia of our current position increases. Following these steps will guarantee… Continue reading

November 26 2008 | By Danny | Tagged: achievment, development, focus, goal, growth, planning, success | 19 comments»

3 Ways to Stop Living Vicariously Through Technology

Image courtesy of jonrawlinson on Flickr As technology continues to improve, it is becoming easier than ever for us to live vicariously through the creations of others. Living vicariously through technology is “watching instead of doing.” An example is getting home from work and deciding to watch television or Youtube videos instead of creating something of your own. It is stagnating during your free time instead of growing. This… Continue reading

August 13 2008 | By Derek | Tagged: creativity, growth, personal growth, Technology | 10 comments»

What Makes Life Worth Living?

My partner is taking a class in psychology and one assignment asks her to write a paper answering the question “What makes life worth living?” For the past few days, she’s been asking the people around her – kids, friends, co-workers – what they think makes life worth living, and the answers have been pretty much of a sort: family, friends, work, music, some possession or other, faith, maybe health. Computer… Continue reading

August 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: growth, life, meaning, self-examination | 48 comments»

How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Past

Do you have a trophy room? This is a place where you keep your various trophies, certificates, award plaques, autographed trinkets and other things that remind you of past accomplishments. This could be a fireplace mantle, space on a bookshelf, a downstairs room or a building depending on what you have been up to. If you have one of these, be careful to avoid getting stuck in the past. They… Continue reading

July 16 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: development, growth, motivation, past, Productivity | 6 comments»

How to Make Yourself Indispensable

Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter?

OK, these are depressing things to think about, but that’s exactly how many people feel, day in and day out, in their jobs and even at home. They feel unappreciated, unchallenged… Continue reading

June 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: difference, growth, indispensable, self-development, social | 26 comments»

Are You a Productive Reader?

I know you can read. You're reading this, aren't you? (If you're not reading this, never mind.)

But are you productively literate? That is, when you read, do you learn anything that you can apply immediately to your life, or do the words and ideas just bounce around your brain's pleasure areas for a while before disappearing like so many wisps of morning fog?

Not that there's anything wrong with… Continue reading

May 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, growth, learning, personal-development, reading | 14 comments»

Your Individual Development Plan

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

This question is one of the lynchpins of the personal development field. It's usually followed by instructions to visualize yourself having achieved those goals, and maybe an admonishment to ask yourself if what you're doing now will get you there.

None of this is hard. What is hard, though, is making a plan that will get you there… Continue reading

April 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, growth, improvement, learning, personal_development | 18 comments»

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren't easy. One of the things I dislike most about "power of positive thinking"-style personal development philosophies (such as "The Secret") is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time… Continue reading

March 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, growth, life, personal-development | 84 comments»

Write A Personal Mission Statement In 5 Steps

Mission statements are a great way to define direction and maintain focus. Using one for yourself could make a big difference to how you reach your goals. Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. is a fan and has a 5 step plan to writing a good, personal mission statement. A personal mission statement, is of course personal… but if you want to truly see whether you have been honest in developing your personal… Continue reading

September 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal, growth | 7 comments»

Business Growth: Increase The Size Of Your Bowl

Having trouble increasing the size of your business? The problem might lie in vision. Are you trying to grow out of a constrictive space, figuratively speaking? Like the goldfish that will only grow to the size of it's bowl, maybe you should increase the size of your bowl. If you want to grow, it's not enough to just do more of what you are currently doing:

you must grow your definition

June 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: business, Business-Plans, growth | 4 comments»

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