You know your New You Day “WHY?” – so now the second step in the process of determining your New You Day Mentality is answering the question, “What?” In other words – you’ve determined the “Why?” that drives you. Now you need to formulate a plan on “WHAT?” you have to do to focus on that passion.
Peer pressure sure gets a bad rap. The average person things it’s evil and malicious. What if I told you that’s just a load of bull?
There are different kinds of strategies an individual should be aware of in order to constantly keep their thread of thought flowing. Motivational speakers help their audience by teaching them different strategies in order to constantly be at your peak with anything and everything that a person does.
Take action, beat procrastination and live a productive full and highly satisfying life; or don’t take action, continue procrastinating and lead an empty unfulfilled existence. In a previous article ‘Why People Procrastinate’ the underlying causes were identified to gain a clear understanding of how procrastinating can be self sabotaging and debilitating. This article shows you how.
When the unforeseeable happens; when there is silence and you are expecting cheers; when you’re left to question why your passion isn’t providing enough fuel to get you to the end game, you are then forced to deal with some harsh realities. However harsh the realities, now is not the time to give up.
I was asked an interesting educational question recently about motivation and pedagogy: to wit, what pedagogy is used to create classroom strategies that each motivator prefers? Pedagogy is a word that one doesn’t encounter as frequently as one did, say, in the Seventies; what does it mean? Pedagogy is the science of teaching, of instruction, of training. It answers the question of how people learn effectively. Just preaching to people may make the preacher feel good, but will the audience learn anything? An exceptional preacher, possibly, may well impart knowledge and information, even rouse people to take action; but in the real world if every teacher in the classroom used ‘preaching’ as their dominant pedagogy, there would be even more disaffected and bored youngsters than there are now.
The very first step in the process of determining your New You Day Mentality is answering the question, “Why?” Another way of framing it would be to ask, “What’s the thing (Or things) that keeps you up at night? What keeps a fire in your belly? What keeps you laser-focused on the prize?”
Getting motivated is harder for some people then it is for others, it helps if you have a natural interest in the subject where you need the motivation. Being a trainer I have had the opportunity to witness many different personalities and what motivates them, and it is surprising how people actually get motivated.
Remember the idea of a New You Day? It’s having an INSTANT reset or do-over anytime you experience a slight error in judgement – as opposed to waiting down the road to start over. In this article – I want to cover some of the disclaimers and guideline surrounding how to do that.
I have been wondering why words of motivation only positively affect the minority of people. After some long and hard thinking and soul-searching I have come to several conclusions.
