How to Stay Motivated on Big Projects
When you’re working on something big, you often start off with great intentions … only to find your motivation gradually slipping away.
Whether you’re studying for a qualification, tackling a mammoth project at work, or writing a book in your spare time, you’re only going to succeed if you can stay motivated. (That’s particularly true of goals where you haven’t got a boss/parent/mentor checking up on you…)
So, here’s how to keep going: Read the Rest of This Article »
How To Make Good On Your New Year’s Resolutions with Less Than 100 Days To Go!
Remember those New Year’s resolutions you made at the beginning of the year? Did you make good on them or did you forget about them by February 1? With less than 100 days left in the year, you can still turn those resolutions into a reality and reach your goals before 2012 officially rolls in. Whether it’s losing weight, getting out of debt, organizing your home or whatever, all it takes is a little mental toughness. Read the Rest of This Article »
The Awesome Power of Two Words
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.” – Senator Robert F. Kennedy
The working of the human mind naturally lends itself to metaphor as in: the playground of the mind, the battlefield of the mind, the mind as a prison. What all these allusions depend upon is framing – the mind’s natural process of capturing an idea and using it to define and focus your attention on whatever is within its scope.
Framing is the process that truly confirms the Biblical statement: “As a man thinketh in his heart [Hebrew for mind] so is he.” If you think of your mind as a playground for ideas – it will be. If you think of it as a prison – it will be.
For some people their thinking does seem to imprison them through the spiraling of their negative thoughts; it brings ceaseless unrest.
What they need is a way to break out of that cycle to create mental freedom.
So what can help? Enter the two words: “What…if…” Read the Rest of This Article »
How to Defeat Your Inner Jerk
The inner jerk is the anti-conscience of your thought process. It is the tiny voice inside your brain that says, “you’re not good enough. You’re not pretty enough. No, you can’t do that. You’re a loser. You’ll never amount to anything.” Sometimes it makes a home inside of your brain. It might even be the kind of jerk who makes frequent visits to your thoughts.
We all have an inner jerk that feeds us negative thoughts about us, but we don’t have to listen to its nasty comments. There is a way to defeat the inner jerk within ourselves. Read the Rest of This Article »
How to Break a Big Goal into Little Steps
Maybe you’ve got a big goal in your life – something that excites you but also scares you.
You might have been thinking about this goal for months, years, even decades. And, even if you’ve made a start on it, you might not have got very far.
Your goal might look something like this:
- Run a marathon
- Write a novel
- Pay off the mortgage
- Get a PhD
- Become self-employed
All of these are big goals – most of them would take years to achieve. And if you really want to reach them, you need to break them down into manageable chunks.
Here’s how. Read the Rest of This Article »
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