Today’s Top 10 Tips was inspired by zenhabits.net. 

Loss of motivation can happen to anymore.  Whether it is for your goals or a project at work, these 10 tips will help you keep your energy to stay focused on your goals.

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1.  One Goal
   Whenever I have been in a slump, I have discovered that it is often because I have too much going on in my life. I am trying to do too much. And it saps my energy and motivation. It is Read More...

In this talk featured at the TED Convention, career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t. Traditional rewards and incentives do not work and often do harm.

Dan has studied the science of human motivation, specifically the dynamics of external and internal Read More...

When you get what you want in your struggles for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

Some people might think you’re a straight-shooting chum
And call you a wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest
For he’s with you clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most Read More...

I want to give you a couple of powerful ideas on how to give your new goals some momentum.

Here are the simple steps I take every year to really get some power behind my goals.

1. Set my goals in all areas of my life: professional, financial, mental, physical, family, and social.

2. Look for an overarching theme. This is usually something that links many of the goals together.

3. Pick an appropriate symbol for the theme.

For example, in 2006 I had the Year of the summit, because climbing the mountain was a physical goal as well as metaphorical goal of hitting team goals, sales goals, etc. In 2005, I had the Year of the House, which was the year that I invested in Read More...

A Professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the Professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The Professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up Read More...

We found this video at http://www.smileandmove.com/ Warning:  After watching this you will feel overwhelming urge to be happy and do something. Side effects include an increased drive to give more.

Smiles are contagious. It’s no myth… it’s biology.

Scientists have shown that seeing a smile triggers an automatic response in our Read More...

What do you need a sales manager for that you can’t do for yourself? For example, when it comes to “getting motivated” your sales manager is really of no use to you because you do not need to be motivated to succeed in sales. What you need is FOCUS.

Picture yourself caught up in your own personal version of sales hell. And over there you see the Top Producer in your company, shimmering along through life, raking in the dough. “This stinks” you say to yourself and think, ”Maybe I’m gonna go knock off for the day, get my head together, and come back tomorrow. If I could just get motivated like that guy, I’d be able to do so much better.”
But here is what Read More...

Created by the people behind the book, The Secret by Rhonda Read More...

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 may be the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world. Its 1000 horsepower engine boasts a narrow angle double V8 configuration for a total of 16 cylinders and four turbos, with 8.0-litres of displacement per cylinder. Step hard on the gas and it will rocket you to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds thanks to four-wheel-drive traction. You’ll make 125 mph in 7.3 seconds and 200 mph in less than 20 seconds. Whew!

Yet, if you fail to put gas in the tank, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 will take you exactly nowhere.

We’ve all been told that goals are the vehicle that will propel you to your destiny. And so we expend extraordinary Read More...

The end of the year is here and I’m sure most of you have set your goals for 2009 or you are in the process of doing so. So let’s talk a bit about actively pursuing your goals to give you a head start into the New Year.

Our goals are like a road map, they tell us where we are going and how to get there. But most importantly, you must understand why you are working towards that goal. What motivates you??

You don’t just head out to Mississippi with no idea why you are going there. Even if it’s just because you want to get away and see something new, you still know why you decided to get in your car and drive. You must understand this for professional goals Read More...