Inside you is a mechanism and a process that keeps you constantly moving forward toward the things your mind holds as targets. (You may or may not have exciting, satisfying targets, but that’s a different article.) The point of this is, you are hard-wired to achieve, to strive, to move forward relentlessly until your life [...]

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 [...]

Believe it or not, strong and healthy self-discipline is within the reach of virtually anyone. Of course it doesn’t come free. There’s a price to pay. But before you start reminding yourself of all the times you’ve fallen short in the discipline department, and how you may never have what it takes… just stop. I [...]

The trouble is, most of us don’t really know or understand the tools we have available to us. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that most people can’t tell you the difference between will power and self-discipline. They are different, though – quite different – and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Each [...]

Are you a waiter? You know, the kind of person who delays getting into action, putting things off, thinking about it, gathering more information, letting it all percolate down through your subconscious till you fully understand every nuance of the situation… and by then it’s probably much too late. Is that you? Well, this article [...]