Persistence is a crucial trait. It keeps you going through thick and thin. But sometimes flashbacks can get in the way of persistence.
Flashbacks? Yeah, you know – ideas, voices or mental pictures from out of your past. Stuff that rises up out of the back of your mind to haunt you – undermine your [...]

Yes, you CAN demotivate yourself! There’s no longer any need to suffer from massive motivation or high achievement.
Anytime you feel an attack of ambition, energy or enthusiasm coming on, just use one of the following techniques. You’ll soon be safely back in front of your television watching reruns or down the pub nursing a pint.

Here’s a story I think you’re going to like.
What do you do when someone you love is sliding rapidly toward death? You want the doctors to take the measures that’ll save their life, but nearly everyone else is convinced it’s hopeless, so they won’t agree to the procedure.
What DO you do?
Just shrug your [...]

Building up your own self confidence isn’t any great mystery. It isn’t even particularly difficult.
Yes, I know that when your life turns dark, and despair grabs you by the gut, it can seem like you’ll never see sunshine again. But that’s an illusion. And like most illusions in life, despair is mostly self-induced.
If you’ve been [...]

So you think you’re focusing? Okay… how are your results? Maybe you’re achieving everything you set out to do. Perhaps you’re reaching the targets you’ve set within the time limits you expected.
If so, then your focus is powerful. But if not… maybe it’s time to adjust your ideas about focus and what’s really involved.
This week’s [...]

There are a lot of ways to motivate yourself, and Anthony Robbins is well known for his mastery of the subject. Posted today at his blog, Easy Motivational Strategies, he provides a list of things you can do to keep yourself focused on forward momentum.

Marcia Yudkin, in her widely read ezine “The Marketing Minute,” tells how only a few people taking screenwriter training ever do anything with their new skills.
When L.A. filmmaker Jeff Bollow moved to Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago, he planned to launch an independent feature film studio but couldn’t find enough commercially suitable screenplays. [...]

My friend Walter once told me that every summer evening he’d go out in the front yard and sit and wait for a UFO to come pick him up.
As far as I know, he never got the ride he was waiting for.
I also know a LOT of people who’re waiting around, just like Walter, for [...]

It doesn’t take much to put a winner out in front of the pack. In business and in sports, again and again, most victory margins are fractional.
And the difference in attitude required to spring out in front the crowd and be that leader – well that may take only a sliver more of determination, of [...]

by Peter Murphy
Will power alone will never work over the long term. It is the hardest way possible to get yourself to do anything.
The answer is to discover the secrets of self motivation.
Why?
Because it is like trying to open a tin can with your teeth when there is a can opener in your pocket.