Thursday Rewind | Is That Your Carrot Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

carrotImage courtesy of peterastn

If you’ve read most of my posts thus far you’ve most certainly come across my referring to the whole carrot and the stick analogy. I feel it is very important that we all have things that we can place in the forefront of our minds to help us maintain the drive we need to meet our goals. But just having that carrot dangling in front of us is often times not enough. I have found that it is equally important that we let the World know about our carrots so we will feel THAT much more driven to pursue them. Read more »

The Yin And Yang Of Persistence

To be successful in anything you must practice persistence.  Without it we would give up the first time we failed.  But there’s more to it than just having a ‘never give up’ attitude.  In this post I want to present you with the different ways of persisting and which ones will help you reach your goals.  Is blind persistence a good thing?  Should you really ‘never give up’?  Let’s go deeper into the facets of this key act/trait and see how we should be utilizing our abilities to ‘push through the pain’ so we may reach our goals and obtain our dreams.

But first, let’s take a look at the definition of Persisting:

According to dictionary.com Persisting means… Read more »

Motivate2ACTION!: The Next Step To Changing Your Life!

If you haven’t already read my post ‘NOT Just Another Productivity Blog’ I would suggest doing so now.  This will help give you some context to how and why this all came about.

I’ve mentioned this a few times and now it’s here.  I call it Motivate2ACTION! and it represents my desire to create a place where people come, not only to become inspired, but to actually do something with that inspiration.  My goal is to build a community of doers and not just dreamers.  Don’t get me wrong, the dreaming is essential, but without the action to back it up we will only experience these dreams in our heads. Read more »

Is That Your Carrot Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

carrotImage courtesy of peterastn

If you’ve read most of my posts thus far you’ve most certainly come across my referring to the whole carrot and the stick analogy.  I feel it is very important that we all have things that we can place in the forefront of our minds to help us maintain the drive we need to meet our goals.  But just having that carrot dangling in front of us is often times not enough.  I have found that it is equally important that we let the World know about our carrots so we will feel THAT much more driven to pursue them. Read more »