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12 Oct 08

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

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And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make things enjoyable and 2) use positive public pressure.
- Post your goal on your blog and post regular updates. It’s important that you not just post the goal but also stay accountable with the updates. Encourage people to ask you about your goal if you don’t report your progress.
- Join an online forum related to your goal — I’ve done this when I quit smoking and also when I started running. Introduce yourself, make friends, tell them about your goal, ask for help when you need it, and report your successes and failures.
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- Post your goal and a chart of your progress up in your office or other public place.
- Having a hard time exercising? Find exercise that’s fun for you. If you don’t like running, try soccer or basketball or rowing. If you don’t like to lift weights, try doing some primal workouts where you flip logs and jump through tires. Go hiking. Walk with friends and talk the whole time.
  Is eating healthy a challenge for you? Find healthy foods you love. Experiment with new recipes and have fun testing them out.
  Is training for a marathon tough? Learn to enjoy the quiet of the early morning, the contemplative nature of running, or the beautiful nature that surrounds you. Or play some songs that pump you up. Or listen to interesting audiobooks as you run.

23 Aug 08

PsyBlog: How to Choose Happiness: Combat 5 Decision-Making Biases

More choice is often not better: Research with gourmet jams has found people can be happier, and even better motivated, when they have fewer options to choose from.

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Going to the supermarket when I'm really hungry, and without a shopping list, is a recipe for disaster. It will take an act of iron will to avoid returning without some kind of junk food. Later, after eating, I'll wonder how I could have bought junk food but forgotten healthy staples like rice and pasta
Part of the reason people make mistakes like this is that research shows the projection bias anchors us in current emotional and cognitive states. The present is often like an emotional cage which we can't break out of to understand how we will feel in the future
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- A study on subway travellers showed that people freely recalled their previous worst experience of missing the train. As a result they then predicted that if they were to miss the train later that day they would feel worse than did other people who had recalled less disastrous times they had missed the train.
- Recalling more than one past instance of an event you want to make a decision about helps average out the emotion. Also, simply be aware that you are likely to recall the best or worst past example of an event.
- More choice is often not better: Research with gourmet jams has found people can be happier, and even better motivated, when they have fewer options to choose from.

16 Aug 08

Lo que hace la diferencia, está en ti | PasionEnAccion.com

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La historia del niño que fue entregado por su madre en adopción, que luego abandonó la universidad, más tarde fue despedido de la propia empresa que había creado, fracasó con su próximo negocio… pero al final volvió a su empresa original para sacarla de una inminente ruina y convertirse, él, en uno de los hombres más influyentes de la informática, la música y la animación computarizada (Steve Jobs, CEO de Apple).

El niño que nació sin brazos en Nicaragua producto de la talidomina (una medicina) que le suministraron a su madre durante el embarazo, que luego decidió seguir su pasión, vencer sus limitaciones y alcanzar sus sueños a toda costa… y hoy es un famoso guitarrista que toca con los pies e inspira a multitudes a vencer sus barreras (Tony Melendez).

La niña negra que nació en medio del racismo y la pobreza norteamericana, que fue abusada sexualmente por un familiar a temprana edad y luego salió embarazada durante su adolescencia… que hoy es una de las mujeres más admiradas por millones de personas en todo el mundo por el impacto positivo que ha generado a través de su imperio mediático y su mega-fortuna de más de mil millones de dólares (Oprah Winfrey, conductora por 20 años del Oprah Winfrey Show y Editora de la revista “O”).
La diferencia surge de una decisión. La decisión de adueñarte de tu vida. La elección de conectarte con la certeza de que, en última instancia, tu destino depende de ti.
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- Tu éxito no lo determina las circunstancias. Es tu respuesta ante las circunstancias—la actitud que asumes, las decisiones que tomas, los acciones que emprendes—lo que conforma tu futuro.
- parte de tu misión está en ayudar a germinar en tus hijos ese sentido de pertenencia y de responsabilidad por sus propias vidas
- La responsabilidad que dice “mi vida, depende de mí”.
- La responsabilidad que te hace aprender a no buscar culpables.
  
  La responsabilidad que te impide verte como una víctima.

10 Aug 08

How to Find Motivation for the Things You Hate Doing | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

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Everyone has things they hate to do, but need to do anyway. Sometimes it is doing basic chores that need to be done. In other cases, it’s the boring part of an otherwise interesting project. People who get things finished (as opposed to people who just get things started) have mastered the ability to push through the things they hate doing, to work on the things they love.
The first is simply to focus on it. You might have noticed that you chew a lot more when you don’t like the food in your mouth. This is probably an instinctive reaction to force you to carefully examine what you’re going to eat before you swallow.
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- I’ve often found that focusing on work intensely can even make me like tasks I once hated. I normally hate cleaning, but if I invest 100% of my attention towards it, the chore becomes a lot more fun.
- Reconnect with why you started important projects and how any activity fits into your bigger picture of success. If you can do this, you can bring some of the motivation towards your final goal and use it to finish an ugly task.
- there are ways you can get away with avoiding the stuff that doesn’t interest you:
  
  Outsource or delegate it to someone else.
  Eliminate it from your project. (Is it really necessary?)
  Find a better way to do it. Technology and tricks can often help you shortcut boring steps into ones that are more interesting.

3 Good Reasons to Stop Thinking So Much, And How to Do It

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Because after having read five books you think and plan and think a little more. You get lost in thinking.
Thinking can’t replace action.
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- Without taking action you’ll most likely not get what you want.
- You may overcomplicate things.
  
  Are things hard and difficult? Yeah, they might be. But you may also want consider that it’s you that are making them even harder.
- Be aware of the problem.
  
  The most important thing is to be aware that you tend to overthink. And to keep being aware of that in your everyday life. You can for instance do that with post-it notes that say “Don’t overthink things. Act!” or something along those lines.
- By just being aware of your habit you can often pick up on when you are doing it, stop yourself and do something more helpful instead.
- Set deadlines for decisions.
  
  Instead of thinking about something for days, tell yourself that you have - for example - 30 minutes to think. Then you will make a decision.