Have you ever been so motivated to accomplish something that you forgot to eat or sleep? What types of activities usually spur you to feel that way? What motivates you?
I’ve often heard that you can be motivated in two ways:
You can be motivated away from something (pain)
You can be motivated toward something (pleasure)
Amazingly, not everyone […]
My September project (yes, I know it’s October) has been to scrape and repaint the cedar shingles on the side of our home. This one side gets beat to crap by the sun, wind and rain. The rest of the house looks fine, but this one side was really showing it’s age.
I borrowed a Little […]
The other night someone asked me how I managed to get all the things done that I do. Because I know how much more I want to get done and could get done, it usually surprises me when someone thinks I’ve done a lot.
My pithy response to this person was: “I don’t know. I […]
Many people love and live by their “to do” lists. I happen to be one of them. But the truth of the matter is, that oftentimes I don’t do what’s on my list, I do other things and then add them to my list so that I can cross them off with a mightly stroke […]
WOOT! I completed another 2006 goal today. Yeah!
Curious as to what it was? It was riding the city bus.
Really. It was a written goal… and… really I did it today.
I gave a presentation at the Unemployed Professionals Group in Portland. My daughter dropped me off on her way to school and I told […]
This morning I watched this week’s episode of the television show Hell’s Kitchen.
Warning: Stop reading if you watch the show but haven’t seen this week’s episode yet. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
This reality show focuses on wanna-be chef’s vying for the job as head chef at a fancy Las Vegas restaurant. […]
Last night I was reading an e-book titled ‘Fail As Fast As Possible’ And Other Contrarian Business Success Secrets by David Vallieres. The ideas offered in this book were not unfamiliar to me.
The author talks about baseball players failing more often than they succeed when at bat. Great players hit the ball less than 40% […]
Yesterday a friend and I were talking about self-motivation and procrastination. We wanted to know why we put off things that we knew were crucial to our future success.
I wish I could say that we came up with answers but I did have an epiphany about my own procrastination patterns.
Here’s some background…
For many months (too […]
What do you do when you receive an award or special recognition for something you’ve done? Do you shout your news from the tree tops or do you just quietly continue about your day keeping your achievement to yourself waiting for someone to ask you about it?
In the past I’ve fallen in to the latter […]
For those of you who know me well, you know that I only enjoy early morning when it comes at the end of the day–not the beginning. Yesterday, at the end of a long work night I arrived home to bright sunshine and warm temperatures. It was so nice outside. The air smelled fresh, the […]
