14 Easy Ways to Get Insanely Motivated
These simple strategies can keep you energized both on and off the job.
How to Motivate Yourself: 14 Easy Ways | Inc.com.
(This has to be one of my favorite posts!)
Archive for Leaders – Page 22
I love this article by Jeff Hayden! See what you think:
9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People
The most successful people in business approach their work differently than most. See how they think–and why it works.
This controversial article came out inThe Atlantic last month, as well as very interesting NPR interview with the author on the same subject.
Have you seen it? What are your thoughts?
(Anne-Marie Slaughter is also the of the author of a newly published book by the same name.)
Magazine – Why Women Still Can’t Have It All – The Atlantic.
The latest exercise-science research suggests increased physical activity can improve your mood, make you smarter, and promote “enduring happiness.”
WOW!
There are two (and possibly more) ways regular physical activity works to make you calmer, smarter, and happier. (See full article below.)
How to Become Calmer, Smarter, and Happier | Michigan Today.
Coaching Tip:
How can you use this information to become calmer, smarter and happier, starting today?
“You not only have to understand fully what you believe … but … you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.” Madeline Albright
Mario Moussa, co-author of The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas and learning director of Strategic Persuasion Workshop: The Art and Science of Selling Ideas, says, “Persuasion isn’t about the strength of your ideas, or your argument. You might have truth on your side and have developed an iron-clad case, but facts and logical arguments don’t motivate people to act. Logic just puts a structure around things we already believe. To change someone’s mind, you need to replace the ‘hyperrational’ with the social, by making a connection.”
Here’s an interesting article from Wharton on the power of influence:
What if you could reconfigure the “building blocks” of your job to make it really fit you?
Here’s my previous interview on the Leadership Focus Radio Show with Jane E. Dutton, PhD, distinguished professor at the University of Michigan, and co-director of its Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the Ross School of Business, joins us to talk about just that. She brings to our show an entire career of experience dedicated to transforming and energizing organizations through research on positive organizing and leadership. Her current research focuses on how high quality connections, positive meaning and emotions contribute to both individual’s and organizational flourishing. Energize your workplace and yourself! Listen as Jane helps us to find the secrets to redo and rethink work from the inside out through a new, intriguing and brilliantly successful tool and process called “job crafting.”
Here is a related and very good Harvard Business Review piece by Amy Gallo:
Did you know most women don’t negotiate their salaries? And, that most employers consider their original offer to be a starting place….. Can you imagine what a difference that makes over a 30 year career, when even a few thousand dollars becomes a huge gap as raises are percentaged on that base?
Here are some excellent resources and a Harvard Business Review article to help you be more effective in negotiating your next salary. Many of these tips can also be applicable to those negotiating a raise, or other kinds of compensation, for example more time off instead of health-care if your spouse covers you, or, more flex time.
How to Negotiate Your Next Salary – Amy Gallo – Best Practices – Harvard Business Review.
You may also want to check out my August 1st radio interview with social scientist, Jonathan Jordan on Recent Breakthroughs in the Neuroscience of Negotiation.
Yet another reason why having a sense of purpose in your life and life’s work is critical to your well-being. Here’s a new study that shows the preventive relationship this may have to the decline of cognitive function as we age. ( I don’t know about you but I’m for anything that can help with this!)
Se the full article below:
Having A Purpose In Life Could Protect Brain From Mental Decline, Study Suggests.
Also, if you are interested in knowing more about brain-science and sense of purpose in organizations, you may want to set a reminder to listen to my two upcoming radio interviews with:
- Kim Cameron, the co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and
- Social scientist, Jonathan Jordan on new research the Neuroscience of Negotiation
Here’s a great Geoffrey James post from Inc. Magazine with some food for thought. I wish someone had told me this stuff when I was a lot younger, and I wish I could share it with all the gen Y and gen X ers who are trying to make their way in this tough economic climate.
Positive Thinking: Avoid 5 Toxic Beliefs That Ruin Careers | Inc.com.
What do you think of 
Geoffrey’s ideas? Is there anything that you would add?
Coaching Tip:
So many times as a coach I am helping clients deal with that “inner critic” that keeps them from believing in how powerful they really are, and holds them back from trying things that are really pretty good risks for them to take.
What’s holding you back? How can you “play a bigger game”, starting with a small step now?
5 Qualities of Charismatic People. How Many Do You Have? – Forbes.
I do believe that some people have some innate advantages when it comes to this, but I also feel that many of these areas can be cultivated, and, that they are easier to learn if modeled by someone whom we admire.
Is there someone in your life that fits the bill? Are you paying attention?