So here I am, working on a blog post about focus, and I get this feeling: “Hey dude, you’re not practicing what you’re preaching here, are you?” And I had to admit that, not only was I not being straight with myself, I had way, way, WAY too many projects all stacked up halfway between [...]
Those so-called “bad” habits you’ve been trying to break (or get rid of, or overcome) they may be better assets than you realize. In fact, if you really understood what you’ve got there, you might not dislike them quite so much. True, in their present form, some of your habits may be royally screwing up [...]
As you’ve suspected for a long time, success in anything – consistent success, at least – requires a certain few skills. Fortunately, they’re not all that hard to learn. What is hard – what gets in the way for most people – is a reluctance to see oneself having those skills (sounds quirky, I know, [...]
So here it is past the middle of January already, and NOW I’m getting around to talking about goals? Little slow, aren’t you Burke? Well, maybe not. Stick around… I think you’ll like this. Maybe you still want to set some goals. Fine… that’s easy. Setting goals is the simplest thing in the world. People [...]
There’s a Big Problem in the Personal Development Field: Training programs in self motivation, personal development and Law of Attraction often produce pitifully little (or no) change in the students who sign up for them. Despite paying high prices and investing heavily in time, a very large majority of those students end up with disappointing [...]
On November 30th I gave notice that I’ll be forming a group for learning and practicing self motivation. Name, BullsEye Club. Here’s exactly what I posted: The BullsEye Club Dates: (Notice how these dates slipped?) December 10 December 15 January 6 Announce details of the new group Begin accepting applications Open private forum Start regular [...]
Too much has been made out of motivation. W-A-A-A-A-Y too much. The truth? Motivation just isn’t all that complicated when you take a closeup look at it. In its simplest terms, motivation is a desire and decision to do a task… and that desire and decision are strong enough to drown out the urge to [...]
So far in this Self Motivation series, we haven’t seen anything that’s complicated. And this next step is no exception. Finding and bringing out your own peak performance is just as brain-dead simple, just as logical, just as easy to do as all the other steps we’ve already examined. The only part that slows some [...]
