Motivation – how to motivate yourself
Posted by Doug | Filed under zen habits
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The Zen Habits blog has a post today about motivation and how to stay motivated to achieve your goals.
The post claims there are just two secrets to maintaining your motivation; make things enjoyable and use positive public pressure. I guess a person’s first response to reading this might be to say that some things aren’t always enjoyable but you have to do them in order to reach your goal. Also, not many of us, of course, are in the public eye as much as the author; so how could we use public pressure?
Well, the answers to these questions are in the post, so I’d suggest you pop over there and read it. I’ll simply give you clues here by saying that the public pressure could come from anybody – family, friends, neighbors, co-workers not just the public at large. As for making things enjoyable, well the author claims this is an alternative to those of us who fail to achieve goals through lack of dicipline, will-power or staying power. The author claims that it is not discipline that is required to achieve goals, it is motivation and that comes from maing things enjoyable.
All in all, this is a very thoughtful post and one which could help you if you have trouble sticking to your goals.
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Goal Setting Made Simple
Posted by Doug | Filed under zen habits
The Zen Habits website has a nice article on making goal setting simple and easy.
It is surprising how difficult it can be to set your goals. Which is perhaps why many of us settle for goals given to us by other people (boss, parents, friends, spouse…) I also guess not many of us actually take the time to sit down and try to work out our goals … If this sounds like you then you should take the time to sit down and sort out your own goals and this article is a great place to start.
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