Posts Tagged ‘motivation’

The Science of Setting Goals

What happens in our heads when we set goals?

Apparently a lot more than you’d think. Goal setting isn’t quite so simple as deciding on the things you’d like to accomplish and working towards them.

According to the research of psychologists, neurologists, and other scientists, setting a goal invests ourselves into the target as if we’d already accomplished it. That is, by setting something as a goal, however small or large, however… » Continue

July 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, brain, goal, motivation, neurology | 9 comments»

How to Create a Non-Optional Mindset

Towel throwers and ball droppers

People often ask me why it is that they seem to have so much trouble sticking with their commitment to changing certain behaviours and habits; doing what they need to do to create the results they want for their life. Even though they desperately want to change something about their existence, it seems that invariably there comes a time when they simply stop whatever it… » Continue

May 19 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 14 comments»

Read This Now! Stop Procrastinating and Get Stuff Done — or Else!

OK, I’m done with procrastinating. I’m done with the guilt, anxiety, stress — and, of course, the not getting stuff done. I’m tired of answering “what’d you do today” with “nothing…”. Of course, it’s a lie — I did do something, just not anything important. Not anything that made me feel happier, more complete, or more relaxed. What I did today was spend 8 hours kicking myself, putting myself down… » Continue

April 30 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: getting_started, motivation, procrastination, reward, timer | 17 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 9 comments»

Can the Lifehacking Concept Help You Live Until the Singularity?

Most geeks know who Ray Kurzweil is. Most musicians do too, and so do many blind people. Kurzweil has invented so many things in so many different fields, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Perhaps one of the things he’s most famous for, aside from inventing the first reading machine and some awesome keyboards (the kind a musician plays), is his support—or, really, evangelism—for the concept of the Singularity.

The… » Continue

April 8 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: lifehacking, motivation, risk, success, system | 12 comments»

Self-Discipline: The Foundation of Productive Living

The productivity industry is awash with tips, tricks, systems, and hacks to help you get more done in less time. Yet many who read books and blogs on this topic for the purpose of getting things done say they have trouble implementing these tools and becoming more productive.

No system for keeping your email under control will help you on its own. No tips and tricks for budgeting will ever… » Continue

March 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, discipline, effectiveness, motivation | 18 comments»

Stay on Track with a Treadmill Journal

Nobody knows more tricks and hacks to keep themselves working towards their goals than writers! From getting fired up to start to knowing when to quit — and all the struggles to keep on going in between — writers need every dollop of motivational help they can scrape up.

One trick that some writers use is a “treadmill journal”. Unlike a typical journal, a treadmill journal is a single-purpose journal… » Continue

February 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: journal, motivation, project, sticking_point, tasks, time_management, writing | 16 comments»

How to Write a Personal Mission Statement to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

“Your actions are your only possessions.”
- Lao Tse

This is an excellent personal development statement to ponder as we watch 2007 dissolve into dust. Most of you made personal, one sentence resolutions like “I want to lose weight” or “I vow to go back to school.” It is a tradition to start the New Year with things you want to achieve, but under the influence resolutions are often unrealistic.

2008… » Continue

January 10 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: goal setting, motivation, new_year, personal_mission_statement, resolution, value | 15 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don’t believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there’s no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with — long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 22 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year… before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air.

Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 19 comments»

How Reserving a Domain Name Can Boost Creativity

What secrets lie within your creativity? For some, an early morning workout will produce the idea of the century while another person might find journaling to be most helpful. As they say, whatever works for you is obviously helpful. One idea which I have put into practice has been the reservation of domain names. This is a relatively low-cost practice which integrates your concept with the… » Continue

December 17 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: creativity, domain_name, idea, internet, motivation | 6 comments»

Achieving Your Dream: How to Take the First Step

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Lao-tzu

Do you have a dream deep in your heart that you want to pursue? If you do, have you taken the first step necessary to achieve it? Taking the first step is perhaps the most difficult thing to do in achieving a dream. There are a lot of mental obstacles that make it difficult to take that first step.

Here… » Continue

December 14 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, goal, motivation, success | 10 comments»

8 Tips to Create a Day to Recharge Your Motivation

It’s easy to recognize when you’re physically tired. You haven’t slept normally in days or even weeks. You can’t remember the last time you saw the inside of a gym. And enough caffeine is racing through your bloodstream to keep a small elephant alert.

When your motivation is down, the effects can be worse than physical tiredness. You can’t concentrate, you procrastinate and become as lazy as… » Continue

December 13 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: audiotapes, depression, disappointment, drive, energy, enthusiasm, motivation, Productivity, rest | 8 comments»

How to Move Forward Once You Achieve a Big Goal

What do you do once you achieve your big goal and make it to the top? This can become a big problem if it looks like the only way you can go is down. Professional athletes and aging celebrities all face this issue. The problem can be one of maintaining the position if this is what you want or figuring out where to go next while avoiding a big… » Continue

December 6 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: goal, motivation | 9 comments»

8 Steps To Continuous Self-Motivation

Many of us find ourselves in motivational slumps that we have to work to get out of. Sometimes it’s like a continuous cycle where we are motivated for a period of time, fall out and then have to build things back up again.

A good way to be continuously self-motivated is to implement something like these 8 steps from Ian McKenzie.

Keep a positive attitude: There’s is nothing more powerful… » Continue

September 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation | 13 comments»

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