Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
In the not-too-distant past, young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. Now they yearn to achieve the celebrity of a Mark Zuckerberg or Oprah Winfrey -- and these goals extend to adults as well.
A polite act shows respect. But a new study of a common etiquette -- holding a door for someone -- suggests that courtesy may have a more practical, though unconscious, shared motivation: to reduce the work for those involved.
We come now to the major faults of leaders who fail, because it is just as essential to know what not to do as it is to know what to do.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus?
I've been stuck in a job I hate, and I felt imprisoned, trapped doing work that bored me while following orders of others and helping them achieve their goals.
When asked during an interview how he managed to reach the top as a professional bodybuilder and Hollywood actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied with a single word: "Drive!"
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
There’s a big difference between completing a project and perfecting a project. Perfectionism frequently works against the drive for completion. A final work product doesn’t have to be perfect to produce strong results. However, the project must be essentially complete.
Want to quickly improve your happiness and satisfaction with life? Then the pen may be a mighty weapon.
Sometimes immersing yourself in the creative world of people doing amazing things can bring unexpected results.
When I wrote the first words of my blog, more than five years ago, I had no idea those few keystrokes would change my life.
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices.
When faced with a difficult decision, we try to come up with the best choice by carefully considering all of the options, maybe even resorting to lists and lots of sleepless nights.
When the task at hand requires some imagination, taking a walk may lead to more creative thinking than sitting.
Following this method, you can process your inbox in less than 5 minutes if you’re quick.
When dreaming is believing: Dreams affect people's judgment, behavior
People who work hard at improving a skill or ability may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term. Here's why.
Does your small business maintain a Facebook page? Are you thinking about venturing into social media with a presence on this ever-growing social network?
Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
One of the biggest challenges in meeting any goal, whether it be related to productivity, waking early, changing a habit, exercising, or just becoming happier, is finding the motivation to stick with it.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
Fifty years ago, an old country doctor drove to town, hitched his horse, quietly slipped into a drug store by the back door. His mission was destined to bring to the South the most far-flung benefit since the Civil War.
"Over the course of five years, I've managed to pay off over $35,000 in debt, quit my day job, and go from having nothing saved to fully funding my retirement accounts every year. In the process, I've developed a 14-point philosophy."
Often we're discouraged because of some tough challenge or obstacle in our way. But a shift in mindset, courtesy of a Zen proverb, can change everything: The obstacle is the path.
Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive tools that help them feel more connected to and more influential in their communities.