A year ago I wrote a blog post called “5 ways to motivate yourself to study a boring subject and/or complete a project”. Several people responded to this blog post with comments along the following lines:
“Don’t know what to do … I have not gained any motivation …”
“I want something […]
You know you should stop chewing your nails, that you don’t get much done when you log onto Facebook and that eating fish and chips from the greasy deli is a really bad idea….but you still do these things anyway.
People usually persist with bad habits because they get some personal satisfaction or reward from engaging in the behaviour.
Let’s face it, […]
According to psychological research only 53% of peoples’ goals are actually translated into action.
A measly 53%.
Why is this the case?
Professor of Psychology at New York University, Dr Peter Gollwitzer, believes that there are a number of things that derail us from achieving our goals.
We may find ourselves being distracted by […]
How to get motivated Last year I wrote a blog post called 5 ways to motivate yourself to study a boring subject and/or complete a project. I suggested strategies such as thinking positive thoughts, practising visualisation and taking small actions steps.
Doing all of those things are great, but I’m sorry to say that I missed the obvious when I wrote […]
