Everybody has goals… And to reach a goal, one has to make efforts. People who reach their goals without making efforts are just lucky 🙂 When it comes to making efforts, you need some motivation and it’s not always easy to find this motivation or to keep it on a long term. In the past…
How to get out of a Motivation rut
No matter how motivated we consider ourselves as people, there are always going to be times when we are less than excited to take action. We all have those days where we just don’t feel like doing anything and morph into the world biggest couch potato. Be it in our job, our quest for health…
Limitations of Positive Thinking
Mental skills training is becoming more and more popular today with advances in neuroscience and performance psychology. These skills include goal setting, visualization, mindfulness, meditation, and positive thinking. For this article I’m going to share some thoughts on positive thinking. Positive thinking has been around for a long time. One of the things I like…
The Puzzle of Motivation, by Dan Pink (TED)
A great TED talk (www.ted.com) by Dan Pink on motivation and the mismatch between what corporation are using to motivate their employees, and what truly motivates us according to number of different studies! You might be surprised by the findings of these studies…… Enjoy and share your thoughts Anna Share Buttons
Motivation and happiness – are they correlated?
I remember having a very heated discussion with someone a while ago about motivation, and how unmotivated meanwhile a lot of people are……especially in the corporate world. Since then I have made it a point to be a bit more aware of this term “motivated”, and be more sensitive to people being motivated / unmotivated…