Motivation
Motivation is not a mood you wait for. It is the product of what you want, the state you are in, and whether the next step is small enough to take.
These pages work through all three: what actually drives you, how to change the state you are acting from, and how to set goals that survive contact with an ordinary week.
In this section
- Personality and motivationHow personality shapes what motivates you7 min read
- What motivates youWhat actually drives you, underneath the goals8 min read
- Changing your state of mindFour ways to change the state you act from1 min read
- AffirmationsMaking self-talk work instead of grate2 min read
- AnchoringAttaching a useful state to a deliberate trigger5 min read
- Goal setting, step by stepA sixteen-step method for setting goals properly5 min read
- SMART goalsMaking a goal specific enough to act on2 min read
- Goal planningTurning a goal into a sequence of steps4 min read
- Changing habitsWhy habits resist change, and what works2 min read