Motivation Archives

How Rewriting Your Story Can Make You Happier

How can rewriting your story benefit you? What is deep self-examination? How can you begin? Older eras have sought happiness through lives of virtue and intellectual pursuits, while the modern age places value on achievement, fame, and fortune. In Happy, Derren Brown suggests that by rewriting your story based on a philosophy of your own, you can lead a more thoughtful and generally happier life. Read on to learn Brown’s advice for rewriting your story through philosophical, deep self-examination.

How to Become Your Ideal Self in 2 Ways

What is the key to becoming your ideal self? How do you know what you want out of life? In The Mountain Is You, Brianna Wiest explains that becoming your ideal self will help you stop self-sabotaging behaviors. In her book, she provides two major steps to achieve this. Let’s look at these two steps so you can learn how to become your ideal self.

Why Do Projects Fail? Examples & How to Avoid Failure

Why do projects fail in business management? What is the most common reason? How can you avoid failure? In The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks offers a guide to completing complicated projects on schedule. The book covers strategies for streamlining your process so that you can keep your staff working together smoothly and finish your most daunting projects on time. Read on for some of Brooks’s examples of why projects fail and his solutions for avoiding failure.

How to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

Do you know how to find purpose? What is a life purpose? A life purpose gives you a reason for all of your passions and hobbies in your life. In The Mountain Is You, Brianna Wiest tells you how to identify your purpose so you can live a fulfilled life. Let’s look at Wiest’s advice for finding purpose and your ideal self.

How to Create Your Guiding Principles in Life

What are guiding principles in life? Why do you need rules for your life? In The Mountain Is You, Brianna Wiest says that having principles can help you achieve your purpose and ideal self. She also helps you create principles that are unique to your goals and needs. Keep reading to learn how to create guiding principles for your life.

Procrastination: Book Overview (Lenora Yuen and Jane Burka)

What is Lenora Yuen and Jane Burka’s Procrastination about? What’s the key message to take away from the book? In their book Procrastination, psychologists Lenora Yuen and Jane Burka argue that we procrastinate to experience short-term relief from our fear of working on certain tasks. Fortunately, they claim that you can beat procrastination and learn to live a more fulfilling life if you accept reality’s constraints and learn healthier ways to manage your fears. Below is a brief overview of Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now by Lenora Yuen and Jane Burka.

Why Perfectionism and Procrastination Go Hand in Hand

What is the connection between perfectionism and procrastination? How does perfectionism fuel procrastination? Perfectionism is the most common reason we procrastinate: We set such high standards for ourselves and tell ourselves there will be dire consequences for not meeting those standards. As a result, we find it hard to even start working on something. Here’s how you can put an end to procrastination by making a shift in your mindset.

How to Start Living by Your Values to Achieve Success

How can you start living by your values? Why do value-driven people achieve more success? In You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero argues that many people worry excessively about what others will think of them, which prevents them from pursuing goals. Psychotherapist Russ Harris adds that such worries are a form of fear—you fear the judgment of others and therefore opt out of activities that would otherwise fulfill you. Read on to learn how to start fearlessly living by your values, according to Harris’s advice.

Overcoming Procrastination: Reclaim Control of Your Time

Why do we put off things that matter to us the most? More importantly, how can you stop procrastinating once and for all? Overcoming procrastination is not an easy feat, especially if you procrastinate for reasons that are beyond your control. However, you can put an end to procrastination if you first accept some realities as being beyond your control and then focus instead on controlling what you can: your behavior. Let’s also explore how you can work within the constraints of realities beyond your control by practicing healthy behaviors that replace procrastination.

What Is the Confidence Gap? (+3 Ways to Bridge It)

What is the confidence gap? Why do you have negative thoughts? How can you learn to overcome low confidence? Psychotherapist Russ Harris says living in the confidence gap means feeling blocked from achieving your life goals because you lack confidence. He believes you can get beyond this gap by learning how to relate to your negative thoughts differently, instead of letting them dictate your actions. Read on to learn what the confidence gap is and how to overcome it, according to Russ Harris.