Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, according to research from Duke University.
Reading teaches us a lot, but it’s in the actual doing of things that we do our real learning.
It turns out passion is not as elusive as we think.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
The problem isn't capturing our creativity, as individual inspiration is a steady pulse that beats within us all. The problem is keeping those embers hot once we have them in our grasp.
Keep refreshing your goals in your mind, so you think about them often. Here are some ways to do just that.
One of the keys to happiness -- as well as productivity and effectiveness at work -- is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
Life would be grand if we only did what our fleeting hearts wanted to do, each moment of the day. Unfortunately, the laundry, taxes and difficult conversations would never get done.
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
A big part of self-discipline comes from social pressure. This is how people in the military can become very disciplined, particularly in special forces. They don’t want to hold their team back, so they have to do their best.
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
If you don’t know how, learn how. Use that fancy brain that learned how to walk, talk, and read. It’s still capable of further learning, is it not? Of course it is!
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
The authors of this study looked closely at the ways beginners versus experts respond to negative or positive feedback.
Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff -- while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.
Excuses are lies we tell ourselves to avoid dealing with unpleasant truths. But as long as we buy into those excuses, we can never move past them.
When people consider a particular goal, they often worry about the time commitment: 'If I start a business now, it could take years to make it profitable.' Such thoughts reveal a total misunderstanding of the nature of time.
Employees who pursue creative activities outside of work may find that these activities boost their performance on the job.
What is a mind map? Put simply, it's a type of diagram, used to help you outline information in a visual format. But really, a mindmap can be anything you need it to be.
For some people, neither the carrot nor the stick will serve as a motivational tool
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
I couldn't motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to, research suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior.