Tag: motivation
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Why goal setting is so powerful
There’s a wonderful sequence in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Alice is lost in the woods when she encounters the Cheshire Cat looking down on her from the branch of a tree: ‘Cheshire Puss,’ Alice began rather timidly, ‘would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good…
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Your life’s mission
‘Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.’ Richard Bach King Solomon, reputedly the wisest man of his era, said, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ But it’s amazing how some people have no vision for their lives, no idea where they are…
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Setting Goals
Goals are used by all high achievers. Anyone who deliberately becomes a goal setter, whatever they have done with their lives previously, writes them down and focusses their mind on them immediately notices an increase in their level of accomplishment. The goal-setting technique is not that difficult to master. Begin with a few small goals,…
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What motivates you?
Motivation is what gives us a reason for action. For instance, when we are hungry, we are moved to find food. (Physical deprivation produces powerful motivation.) Well motivated people have more enthusiasm, more energy and are less likely to give up. And they get more done. Early experiments on animals concluded that we are motivated…