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 […]
If you follow my coaching philosophy, you know I have a rather strong opinion about dealing with strengths and weaknesses. There are two rules of thumb I live by when it comes to deciding whether to build strengths or fix weaknesses. The first rule is to spend as little time, energy, and emotion in areas of […]
Motivating children with short-term rewards is unquestionably the easiest way to get a child to do something immediately. However, motivating children this way has two big problems that make the immediate results not worth it. Psychology professor Dr. Edward Deci, the world’s leading researcher on goals and motivation, explains these two problems in his classic […]