There are a number of factors that influence how well we do in school, including the amount of time we study and our interest in a subject.
Sometimes immersing yourself in the creative world of people doing amazing things can bring unexpected results.
It’s the lack of starting that kills most tasks and projects.
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
Keep refreshing your goals in your mind, so you think about them often. Here are some ways to do just that.
Pride in success can prevent us from taking further action toward our goals. We should not allow our brains to convince us that a failure is a success just so that we can stop trying.
When dreaming is believing: Dreams affect people's judgment, behavior
The color red can affect how people function: Red means danger and commands us to stop in traffic.
So many acts in our daily lives -- refusing that second slice of cake, walking past the store with the latest gadgets, working on your tax forms when you'd rather watch TV -- seem to boil down to one essential ingredient: self-control.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
If you want to make a difference in the world, the single most important thing you can do is consciously and deliberately choose to do work that you are passionate about.
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.
Reading teaches us a lot, but it’s in the actual doing of things that we do our real learning.
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.
It turns out passion is not as elusive as we think.
"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."
For some people, neither the carrot nor the stick will serve as a motivational tool
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.
Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life. Side effects include missed opportunities, frenzied work hours, stress, feeling overwhelmed, resentment and guilt.
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.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
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.
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.
Employees who pursue creative activities outside of work may find that these activities boost their performance on the job.
Many of us are good at starting things — it’s the finishing that we need help with.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
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.
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!
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.