100 Ways To Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
100 Ways To Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
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In this first-ever paperback edition of his long-time best-seller, motivational speaker Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act-methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling your lifelong goals and dreams. Whether you’re self-employed, a manager, or a high-level executive, it’s still easy to get stuck in the daily routines of life, fantasizing about what could have been. Steve Chandler helps you turn that way of thinking around and make what could have been into what can and will be.
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Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
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In a book that challenges authoritarian thinking about motivation, a distinguished social psychologist offers an alternative to current reward/punishment theory, which, far from anarchy, espouses our ordered, internalized sense of freedom, responsibility, and commitment.
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Depressed procrastinators beware,
I’ve had depression for over ten years – a disease that saps you of the motivation even to get out of bed – with heavy doses of anxiety over the things I had to do, wanted to do, “should” do… in fact, I was pretty much consistently overwhelmed and driven by fear. This book didn’t fix that problem – meds and cognitive therapy books did – but this book was GREAT to read while procrastinating. After a couple of chapters, I’d lurch off my butt and get going. (Not an easy task with fatigued depression.)
But this book had an unexpected side effect. Not only did it motivate me short-term, it gave me lots of long-term help. Steve Chandler’s outgoing and fearless philosophies have etched themselves into my brain over countless re-readings. It’s not just a “motivation” book – it’s a book about living life to the fullest. Some of the tips have nothing to do with motivation, per se – like singing to get a great confident speaking voice, getting over social embarrassment, and finding what you love to do. In fact, I think those chapters outnumber his motivational pep talks. That would be a negative selling point, if it hadn’t had such a great overall effect.
There are also several chapters about planning. I swear, before I’d read this book I hardly ever wrote a list. Now, I’ve got them stuffed all over the place. Writing lists is a *little* motivational… but overall, I think it’s done more for my career. I’m coming up with more and more creative ideas to make money.
I wanted a kick in the pants, but what I got was an attitude adjustment. Oh well… thanks, Steve.
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|Better Yourself through applying this book to your life!,
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself is definitely one of the better self-help / leadership books I have read. The one part of this book that is quite unique is that Chandler often starts with a quote, then he presents an typical example and finally tells a brief short story. I find this to be quite refreshing in these types of books as Chandler covered a wide array of topics from taking action, looking at things from a different angle, using your imagination, setting goals, turning off your TV, relationships, etc.
I believe the key ingredient in getting long-term value out of this book is to highlight the quotes/stories you love and integrate them into your daily life. Practice what you read if it ties in with your values. Hope this helps everyone.
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|Wonderful book; hard to believe no one else reviewed it,
I try to reread this book at least once a year; sometimes more. I even wrote down a few of his best quotes for review.
Hey, everyone needs to be picked up and charged sometimes, you know? Sometimes you just don’t feel it or you get into a slump.
This book talks about getting into action and staying in action. Really important b/c some people just want to do things but they sit around and do nothing.
Highlights and favorites of this book:
(1) watch less TV; (2) plan your day and rank it in order of importance; (3) live your life; (4) start your life over; (5) light your soul on fire; (6) keep all your promises; (7) strengthen your purpose
Hey, some of these don’t make sense, right? Well, you need to check out the book to understand it b/c it would take up too much space to type.
So, get this book and read the 100 steps to motivating yourself. When you’re grateful I recommended it, you can send me a check in the mail.
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|Humanistic Psychology revisited,
Few things are harder to understand than why we do what we do. In fact, most psychologists would agree that it is virtually impossible for a person to understand his or her own motivation – and consequently that it is not possible to understand the full scope of motivation of another person. Therefore it would be asking too much from this book to give an answer to the question why we do what we do.
What the book does is summarize findings in the psychology of self-determination and intrinsic motivation, the main fields of research of the author, who has published two books on this subject previously.
Deci starts from the position that individuals have something that can be called a “true self,” and that people wish to act in accord with this “true self.” They wish to be autonomous (authentic) rather than controlled. If they act autonomously (authentically), they are self-motivated. If they act autonomously, they also respect others because the “true self” wishes to be related to others (a point on which Aristoteles would have agreed, and Thomas Hobbes would have strongly disagreed). Deci assumes that human beings are cooperative by nature, rather than competitive.
The “true self,” of course, is an artificial construct, a theory. And even if we assume that there is such a “true self,” it is conceivable that there are people whose “true self” is competitive as well as people whose “true self” is cooperative. Some people may simply enjoy open confrontations whereas other people may abhor disharmony and clashes. Deci’s book is mostly silent about such issues of personality, and his assumption that the “true self” is expressive of human connectedness is just that – a very general assumption.
Deci’s book builds on the theories of an American school of psychology called “Humanistic Psychology.” One of the most important proponents of this school was Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) who pioneered the concept of “self-actualization,” a technical term for what Nietzsche once called “becoming who you are.” Maslow’s book “Motivation and Personality” (1954) is still well worth reading.
So, what does this book tell us if it does not tell us why we do what we do? It tells us – quite convincingly – that control is always second-best to autonomy. Deci’s core thesis is that “self-motivation, rather than external motivation, is at the heart of creativity, responsibility, healthy behavior, and lasting change,” (9) and that “social contexts that support and affirm people’s perceived autonomy and perceived competence enhance intrinsic motivation, while social contexts that diminish people’s perceived autonomy and perceived competence undermine intrinsic motivation.” (81)
This is not exactly rocket science, but it gets interesting when Deci delves into the details of what “autonomy support” means – not permissiveness, but being clear, consistent and setting limits in an understanding, empathic way. He spells this out on about twenty pages in Chapter 10 titled “How to Promote Autonomy,” and I would love to make these pages required reading for parents and managers.
In the nature-nurture debate, Deci’s focus lies on the nurture side: “Although the social context is ENORMOUSLY important in affecting people’s motivation and behavior, people’s personalities ALSO affect their motivation and behavior” (184; italics are mine). In fact, Deci is largely silent about matters of personality, or defines it simply as “autonomy orientation,” whereas he discusses the impact of the social context at length.
I am very much a fan of humanistic psychology, which has seen its heyday in the 1960s. It conveys important insights into the impact of “nurture” on human beings. But the assumptions of humanistic psychology about what constitutes human nature appear quite unfounded in the 21st century. To make claims about human nature without recourse to genetics, evolutionary theory, twin research, or the biochemistry of the brain is rather futile. In this respect “Why We Do What We Do” is definitely behind the curve (to make up for this I recommend Matt Ridley’s “Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human” (2003) – popular science writing at its best and quite an education).
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|A Must Read!,
This book will be a great addition to any teachers, managers, or parents bookshelves. It explores the psychology of intrinsic (vs. extrinsic) motivation and shows how supervisors, and other people in “one-up” positions, can be more than managers, but true leaders who foster autonomous, authentic growth and responsible decision-making in their subordinates. A must read for anyone who recognizes the lack of responsiblity and accountability in people today and would like to foster positive change in our schools, our companies, and our society.
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|Interesting concepts about motivation,
The book’s explanation about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation is very detailed and interesting. I really enjoyed reading it, and I can relate the concepts explained in the book with my daily experiences. Furthermore, the author(s) explained the concepts with simple language so that the book is very easy to understand. You don’t have to be a psychology major to be able to enjoy the book.
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