Psychologist Albert Bandura in his preeminent book Self-Efficacy defines self-efficacy as the exercise of control over things that affect your life. I like to describe self-efficacy as the mindset you use to control your destiny. Bandura’s research shows that higher levels of self-efficacy equate to higher levels of effort and belief in that effort producing results. Moreover, […]
We all know the concept of failing forward. Using failure as an opportunity to learn is basically as cliché as it gets in the self-help world. But as cliché as it may be, the opportunity to learn from failure remains just that, an opportunity. Furthermore, learning from failure is an opportunity most people don’t take […]
Goals are the building blocks for self-motivation. However, most people fail to define their goals in a way that provides them with self-motivation, and as a result fail to achieve their big, audacious, difficult goals. To have a goal that you never achieve is painful. Especially when you know there is nothing legally, physically, or mentally […]