Motivation Archives

How Embracing Awe and Wonder Will Make Your Life Fuller

Do you worry about the small stuff? Are you losing interest in life, even as you anxiously cling to it? Too often, people try to escape from reality. However, Robert Greene argues, reality is exactly what we should connect with. In The Daily Laws, he provides suggestions for appreciating everything that the real world offers us when we stop to notice it. Read on to learn how reconnecting with your sense of awe and wonder might be exactly what you need to find joy and excitement in life.

How to Spend Money Wisely on Fulfilling Life Experiences

Want to learn how to spend money wisely? Why is it important to spend money on experiences rather than things? In Die With Zero, Bill Perkins teaches you how to spend money wisely to get the most out of your life experiences and relationships with others. He challenges the idea of saving every penny for retirement and instead advocates for spending your money on what matters most. Read on to learn how to spend your money wisely, according to Perkins’s tips.

Why Spend Money on Experiences? The Long-Term Benefits

Why should you spend money on experiences? What are the long-term benefits? Hedge-fund manager Bill Perkins thinks that people tend to over-save and under-experience, but you should aim to die with zero dollars in your bank account. In Die With Zero, Perkins proposes a strategy for maximizing enriching experiences throughout your life and minimizing unspent funds. Read on to learn why you should spend money on experiences, according to Perkins.

Long-Term Saving and Spending Tips: Plan for the Future

Looking for some long-term saving and spending tips? How can you better understand your spending patterns to plan for the future? If you find that you struggle to save money or plan for your future expenses, then it’s important to learn about your spending patterns to plan a secure financial future. To help you make the most of your money, Bill Perkins offers a long-term saving and spending strategy in his book Die With Zero. Read on to learn about Perkins’s saving and spending strategy for planning a secure financial future.

The 4 Most Common Obstacles to Achieving Goals

How to Believe in Your Goals and Change Your Life

Why do people fail to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves? What are some of the most common obstacles to achieving goals? Achieving any goal requires consistently showing up for it in your actions, which requires you to exercise discipline and self-control. But your best efforts can easily be derailed by “triggers”—stimuli or situations that throw you off track. Here’s a look at some of the primary reasons why we succumb to the temptation of triggers, even when we know better.

A Birthplace of Invention: What We Learn From Our Mistakes

What famous inventions resulted from mistakes? How do errors impact your thinking? Best-selling author and theorist Steven Johnson explores where good ideas come from. One source might surprise you: errors. Johnson explains that, when we learn from our mistakes, we often find ourselves in exciting new territory. Continue reading to learn how mistakes can lead to new ideas.

Do Hard Things: Book Overview (Steve Magness)

What is the book Do Hard Things about? What are the main takeaways of the book? In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness explores why traditional ideas around toughness are not only ineffective but harmful. He explains what it really means to be resilient with strategies on how to overcome discomfort and adversity. Read below for a Do Hard Things book overview.

How to Change Your Behavior by Overcoming Triggers

Why is it so difficult to change your behavior? Why do we tend to fall back into our old patterns despite our best efforts to change for the better? We have a hard time changing our behavior. This is because we encounter “triggers” that make us revert to our old patterns. In their book Triggers, Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter argue that you can reclaim control over your behavior and offer some strategies to prevent triggers from throwing you off course. Keep reading to learn how to change your behavior by identifying and taking control of your triggers.

How to Inspire Yourself: 3 Practical Tips for Internal Motivation

What do you do when your plans get disrupted? Do you tend to lose sight of your goals and your reasons for them? Like everyone, you need motivation and inspiration to set goals and achieve them. It’s great when others cheer you on and help clear your path of distractions. But, you can’t always count on others. You must develop internal motivation—finding ways to keep yourself going when the going gets tough. Read more to learn how to inspire yourself and keep moving onward and upward.

3 Goal Reflection Exercises for a Boost of Motivation

Why is it important to reflect on your goals? How can reflecting on your goals motivate you to push yourself harder? Reflecting on your progress toward your goals is a powerful practice. When you reflect on how far you’ve come, you’ll feel more motivated to persevere and keep making progress. Here are some goal reflection exercises to keep you going.