The psychology of self-motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech

You Will Never Be Lazy Again | Jim Kwik

Break Your Mental Resistance With The 2 Minute Rule (animated)

Marcus Aurelius – How To Build Self Discipline (Stoicism)

Marcus Aurelius was the emperor of Rome, probably the most powerful man on the planet and he strived to improve himself every day. Here are some great tips to develop self discipline from one of the great Stoic thinkers.









1 Find your purpose

2  Count on yourself - commit to your goal

3 Show up everyday consistently

4 Practice voluntary hardship

5 Practice dichotomy of control (what is in your control and what is outside your control)

6 Never play the victim

7 Practice delayed gratification

8 Ignore naysayers

9 Find wise people to emulate (rolemodels)

10 Honestly review your day

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary

Become more effective, follow the 7 habits. This is an overview of the great book by Stephen Covey.




The 7 habits of highly effective people summary:

This book, the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey, has touched millions of people's lives – it's one of, if not THE, most well know success books out there. There are literally 1000's of success books out there, so why should this one be any different? Stephen Covey researched the last 200 years of success literature and found something interesting.. In the last 50 years, most of the books have been focused on the personality ethic - Things like public image, how you dress, how you perform in social interactions, positive mental attitude, skills and techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. These books focus on how to appear rather than how to actually be.

The 7 habits of highly effective people takes an inside out approach – it focuses on the character ethic rather than the personality ethic.

1 - be proactive
2 - begin with the end in mind
3 - put first things first
4 - think win win
5 - seek first to understand then to be understood
6 - synergy
7 - sharpen the saw

The surprising habits of original thinkers

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

Body Language Expert Keynote Mark Bowden at TEDx Toronto — The Importanc...

Here is a very interesting talk by Mark Bowden.

Body language expert keynote speaker, Mark Bowden (https://truthplane.com/) trains and coaches business people in public speaking and presentation skills. He is the public speaking coach and presentation trainer for any executive that needs to stand out, win trust, and gain credibility every time they speak. Voted #1 body language professional in the world for two years running, Mark Bowden is a top keynote speaker on body language and a top expert in body language and nonverbal communication

Mastery: How to Learn Anything Fast | Nishant Kasibhatla

1. Learning means nothing if you don't implement it
2. Deep learning = learning something and using the knowledge in some way to better your self.
3. Shallow learning = only being focused on the Input of knowledge. It is simply intellectual entertainment.
4. Deep learning is > shallow learning
5. How to implement knowledge? Spend twice the time (2x) executing & sharing your knowledge as you would take to learn something
6. Always do a Takeaway :)

How To Reset Your Mind: Dopamine Detox

In this video, I talk about how to reset your mind with a dopamine detox. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter. It affects many aspects of your behavior, some of which include learning, motivation, and mood.



When dopamine levels are too low, people experience depression, anxiety and overwhelm. If you are someone who struggles with mental health issues, the good news is that you don't have to suffer anymore.



Ready to discover the solution for how to reset your mind and feel better?

How to motivate yourself to change your behavior | Tali Sharot | TEDxCam...

What does make us change our actions? Tali Sharot reveals three ingredients to doing what's good for yourself.



Dr. Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist at University College London and the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a faculty member of the department of Experimental Psychology, a Wellcome Trust Fellow, and currently a visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation, and social factors influence our expectations, decisions, and memories.









 She talks about motivation.



1. Social incentive- we are motivated through the positive actions of others. Ex. If we see our friend post a picture of themself at the gym then we want to do the same.



2. Progress monitoring-  We are motivated by seeing progress. Ex. If we start working out too and we see progress by weighing ourself then that helps motivate us to continue.



3. Immediate Reward- reward your good behavior. Ex. If i workout this whole week then I will treat myself over the weekend. Maybe some pizza or ice cream

5 tips – How to stay self-motivated ( Personality development and Motiva...

How To Reprogram Your Mind (for Positive Thinking)

Don't be a robot and let environments control  you.
Listen to #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 USA Today best-selling author, Brendon Burchard talking about reprogramming your mind.

Jim Rohn - Habits To Build A Better You (Personal Development)

Would you like to improve/
Would you like to get better?
Would you like to build a better you?

Listen to Jim Rohn , who has inspired and motivated many people to wealth, happiness and success.

Definitely worth a listen!




How will you use the lessons from this in your life?

The No.1 Habit Billionaires Run Daily

Want to be a billionaire? Then you need to learn the no 1 habit of  billionaires.

It only takes 30 seconds.

How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD

How bad do you want it? Watch this for some motivation!



The guru said I'l  meet you at the  beach. The young man got there at 4am.
The guru asked  how bad do you want success?
The guru asked the young man to walk out into the water. Then a bit further, then a fit further.
How bad do you  want to be successful asked the guru. Go futher
Then the guru held the man down,  under the water. Just before he was about to pass out.The guru lifted him up.
 I have a question for you, how bad do you want to be successful. When you want to be as successful as you want to breathe then you'll be successful.
When you have asthma you have shortness of breath you just want to breath that is all you care about. When you get to the point when all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you will will get it.

7 techniques to feel better and be successful - Tony Robbins

We all go through ups and downs and sometimes you just keep telling yourself to feel confident but your brain and body don't believe you. That's because you are communicating in the wrong way. Here are 7 techniques to improve how you feel and get success that I've found from Tony Robbins.

 The techniques are:

1 Model someone else for a few days
2 Priming
3 Absolute certainty
4 Change your focus 

5 Change your focus - use questions 
6 Immediate feeling change - think
7 Immediate feeling change - action

1.Model someone else for a few days

We all create an identify for ourselves. You can tell someone's identity by the gestures they have, the way they move. It's all to do with your belief system.

One thing that we all try and do is being consistent. So we talk in our heads to be more confident but it doesn't work. So what can you do?

The easiest thing to do is pretend to be someone else for a few days. Eg who is the most confident person you know (or if you can't think of someone think of someone from TV or film). Then just act like them for a week. Move like them, talk like them, have a posture like them. Think like them, behave like them. It might be difficult at first but if you get a few successes then it will build momentum and you will find it easier and easier.

2.Priming

Tony Robbins has a morning priming routing, which creates a rapid change in his physiology. Why don't you try something similar?  His program goes something like this:

1. Cold water plunge ( but you could just have a quick cold shower) 
2. Breath walking: Simply walk for a few minutes using a breathing cycle of 4 short inhales through the nose, then 4 short exhales through the mouth 
3. For 3 minutes feel grateful. Fill your soul with gratitude because when you are grateful it is impossible to be angry or fearful at the same time. 
4. For the next 3 minutes have a total focus on the feeling of the universe coming in and healing everything in your body, mind, emotions, relationships, finances and solving anything that needs to be solved. 
5. For the last 3 minutes, focus on three things that you are going to make happen. See it as though its already been done. Feel the emotions. 

3.Absolute certainty

Many people try something without conviction and then fail and then they say, see I told you it doesn't work. But you've got to be certain. But how can you be certain in a world of uncertainty? The trick is to think of the results in your head as if its already happened successfully.

4.Change your focus 

Seek and you shall find. Whatever you focus on you find. It is like when you buy a new car and then you see the same make of car everywhere but before you didn't. Your brain filters out and if you focus on the  negative then you will find the negative and it will take you into a negative direction. Focus on positive things, how you can improve, what great things you can do, how you can help yourself and your friends.

5 Change your focus - use questions 

Your focus is controlled by the questions you ask continually. If you ask questions like why does it happen to me, why I can't I lose weight you will find negative answers. Instead ask questions like what can I learn from this to be better next time or how can I lose weight and have fun.

6.Immediate feeling change - think

When you are trying to do something but in the wrong mood it doesn't work so how can you change? Try the following

1. Shake your body out. 
2. Think what are you proud of or what could you be proud of in your life today? Maybe you overcame a problem or did something good? Now when you feel proud, how do you breathe, how do you stand, how do you move, how do you think, how do you feel? 
3. Think of an area you are grateful for. Really get into the feeling. How do you feel? 
4. Think of something you are excited about. How do you feel? How do you speak? 

If you really get into this feelings your state should have changed.

7.Immediate feeling change - action

Emotion is created by motion. It is hard to talk your way to feeling better but action helps change how you feel. So take action. Shake your body, stand taller and start doing. Immediate massive actions is the cure all for everything. Do it and if the initial action doesn't work, change it and redo

The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.

Have you heard about the candle problem, devised by the psychologist Karl Dunker in 1945 or the work done by the economist Dan Areily?

The experiments they did show a surprising fact about motivation. People think it is all carrots and sticks but maybe it's not.

There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Here is what science knows. One: Those 20th century rewards, those motivators we think are a natural part of business, do work, but only in a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. Two: Those if-then rewards often destroy creativity. Three: The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive-- the drive to do things for their own sake. The drive to do things cause they matter.

Find out more in this amazing talk.

Why we do what we do | Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions

He talks about:

What is your motive for action? 

What is it that drives you in your life today? Not 10 years ago.Are you running the same pattern? Because I believe that the invisible force of internal drive, activated, is the most important thing. I'm here because I believe emotion is the force of life

What makes the difference in people's performance?

If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined, you find the way. This is the ultimate resource

What are we directed by?

We are directed by what what we target and  our  model of the world  

We have six needs.  Your lead system tilts you in a certain direction. The needs are:

Personality
1. Certainty
2.Uncertainty surpirses
3.Significance - feel important ,unique and different
4..Connection and love

Spirit
5.fulfillment - grow to have something to give of value
6.Contribution

If you were to die

If  you were going to die, who would you call, what would you say, what would you do?

Explore

Explore your web, the web in your head -- the needs, the beliefs, the emotions that are controlling you, for two reasons: so there's more of you to give, and achieve, too, but I mean give, because that's what's going to fill you up. And secondly, so you can appreciate -- not just understand, that's intellectual, that's the mind, but appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change