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1: Being Motivated to Build Your Business

An entrepreneur takes a path that few others care to even consider. Self-employment means taking risks and creating value based upon an idea or vision. That vision, and how clearly it is focused, d...

By: Ken Austin

2: What Motivates Us to Lose Weight

In the Western world, obesity is a “growing” problem. Excess fat and the burden it places on our bodies and health has become an actual crisis.

By: Ken Austin

3: How to Motivate Your Team

The challenge of motivating a team is in direct proportion to how much the team is being forced to act by leaders, rather than being given autonomy and power to direct its own actions. ...

By: Ken Austin

4: How to Motivate Students from Day One

Student apathy and lack of motivation can often be traced to a lack of effective teaching strategies. If a teacher simply tries to attack a lack of motivation directly, the apathetic students will ...

By: Ken Austin

5: Self-Motivation: How to Motivate Yourself

Self-motivation begins with a simple idea. Everything we create begins with an idea. The activity of our minds produces thoughts, but an idea can become a ph...

By: Ken Austin

6: Defining Motivation and Powerful Methods of Motivating Yours...

No matter whether you want to motivate others or yourself, the same challenge must be met: getting from inaction to positive action. Even negative action is a better starting point than lack of act...

By: Ken Austin

7: Intrinsic Motivation: Motivated from Within

All motivation is self-motivation. Even though there are many methods that leaders use to increase the motivation of followers, the most successful motivators enable the ability to discover and use...

By: Ken Austin

8: Human Motivation: What Motivates People

Pain and pleasure are the two main motivators of human behavior: avoiding or eliminating pain and obtaining or increasing pleasure. ...

By: Ken Austin

9: Extrinsic Motivation: Motivation from Outside the Self

Extrinsic motivation is very nearly a contradiction in terms. All motivation is self-motivation. Nevertheless, external forces can motivate people to perform work.

By: Ken Austin

10: Motivating Your Employees Without Using Bribery or Fear

Employee motivation is an age-old challenge for business owners. Most employers simply do what most other employers have done.

By: Ken Austin

Stay Motivated By Visualising

Each and every one of us has a goal, whether we are looking for a salary increase or want to retire at fifty.  To have a goal is not enough, the goal is simply the end result.  ...

By: Ken Austin

Community College Disadvantages

While there are many distinct advantages that can be associated with attending a community college there are a few disadvantages that I would be remiss in not mentioning. ...

By: Ken Austin

How A Manager Can Be A Great Leader

Most managers unintentionally treat their subordinates in a way that leads to less than desirable performance.  Many leaders have difficulty delegating responsibility.  There seems to be the programmed feeling that ...

By: Ken Austin

Author Kevin Eikenberry explains: Recognizing and using momentum to your advantage is one way to propel successful projects, teams and organizations. Maintaining and building positive momentum is one ...

Author Amit Bhalla explains: Consult a Feng Shui practitioner to attract wealth, health and love and luck into your life.

Author Kevin Eikenberry explains: Each and every day is a gift. These seven tips will help you live and work in the moment - no matter the distractions or the stress level.

Author Kevin Eikenberry explains: We all can be more healthy, wealthy and wise in just 30 minutes a day. It's not too good to be true, but it will take a little work. But then creating new habits alwa...

Author Kristen Schuerlein explains: So many people are wondering how to improve their quality of life. Look within and set goals.