Motivation For Dummies E-Book

Gillian Burn

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 347

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Packed with motivational tools and techniques to help you succeed

Inspire yourself and others to make positive changes and create a more motivated life

Motivation is a powerful tool and is central to achieving your goals; whether you want to change your career, promote teamwork in the office, quit a bad habit, or find a new interest, you need to find the motivation to get going and keep going! This no-nonsense guide explains the psychology of motivation and offers practical strategies to help you master your mind and body to unlock your motivation and get more of what you want in all aspects of your life.

Discover how to:
* Muster the motivation to make a change
* Motivate your mind and your body
* Set goals and maintain motivation
* Develop a strategy for success
* Overcome motivational barriers and deal with setbacks

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You’re Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organised

Part I: Understanding the Basics of Motivation

Part II: Identifying and Maintaining Change

Part III: Arming Yourself with Motivational Tools

Part IV: Using Motivation inDifferent Areas of Your Life

Part V: The Part of Tens

Appendix

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Understanding the Basics of Motivation

Chapter 1: Introducing Motivation

Figuring Out What Motivation Is

Knowing How to Maintain Motivation

Recognising How Motivation Helps You

Identifying the Barriers

Looking Into Your Brain or Body for Answers

What motivation feels like

Watching for signs of demotivation

Chapter 2: Exploring the Psychology of Motivation

Understanding the Stages of Motivation

Exploring Maslow’s theory

Relating yourself to each stage

Exploring How the Psychology Can Help

Hertzberg’s hygiene factors

Theory X and Theory Y

The reality of Theory X and Theory Y

Testing the Level of Motivation in Your Work

Taking Your Mind on a Journey

Unravelling the mystery of Bandura’s self-efficacy

Taking control of your mind

Struggling to Maintain Motivation

Finding your inner strength

Overcoming the barriers

Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself for Motivation

Identifying Your Priorities

Starting with the end in sight

Highlighting what matters to you

Getting Yourself Ready

Choosing a start date

Committing to the first action

Creating a Motivational Environment

Evaluating your environment

Motivating music

Setting up a supportive network

Part II: Identifying and Maintaining Change

Chapter 4: Summoning the Motivation to Change

Finding a Catalyst for Change

Taking Your First Steps

Discovering Values That Motivate

Recognising Your Roadblocks

Identifying your demotivators

Acknowledging your excuses

Making Use of the Positive By-Products

Chapter 5: Goal Setting

Defining Your Goals

Applying the SMART rule

Taking steps to action

Prioritising Your Goals

Deciding the focus

Choosing quick wins

Dividing goals into achievable chunks

Facing Your Demons

Identifying your demons

Tackling your demons to keep you motivated towards your goals

Chapter 6: Maintaining Motivation Now and Beyond

Visualising Motivation

Seeing your success

Gauging your feelings

Hearing the praise

Travelling through time

Propelling Yourself Forward

Acknowledging your success

Steering a clear course

Chapter 7: Dealing with Setbacks

Overcoming Setbacks and Struggles

Understanding setbacks

Seeing the positive

Reminding yourself of the benefits

Refocusing on the rewards

Creating Contingency Plans

Knowing who to call on for help

Updating your action plan

Knowing When Fear Affects You

Facing the fear

Controlling your fears

Part III: Arming Yourself with Motivational Tools

Chapter 8: Using Incentives to Motivate

Benefiting from Incentives at Home and at Work

Creating Incentives

Personal incentives

Business incentives

Exploring Different Incentives for Different Interests

Personally speaking: matching your interest to the reward

Keeping employees happy and motivated: finding the right reward

Chapter 9: Quizzing Your Brain Cells

Scoring Your Personal Motivation

Raising Your Personal Motivation Score

Exploring the Brain

Different sides, different processes

Recognising the differences between sexes

Are you thinking with your left side or right side?

Connecting to both sides

Practising Motivational Exercises

Activities to try

Visualisation: Experiencing the future

Stepping into motivation

Chapter 10: Using Neuro-linguistic Programming as a Motivating Tool

Just What Is Neuro-linguistic Programming?

Finding Out What Makes You Tick

Using the senses in motivation

Exploring the senses in more detail

Looking at the other person’s point of view

Exploring Logical Levels

Identifying the Positive By-Products of Inactivity

Part IV: Using Motivation in Different Areas of Your Life

Chapter 11: Motivation at Work

Inspiring Yourself Through Motivation

Realising what’s in it for me

Keeping on track

Using multiple intelligences tostrengthen your motivation

Knowing When to Stop

Prioritising other tasks

Rewarding quick wins

Boosting Your Team

Using human desire to motivate your team

Exploring team goals

Identifying team barriers

Chapter 12: Money Matters – Yes and No

The Motivating Effects of Money

Exploring the hierarchy of personal financial needs

Buying choices

Reaping the benefits of money

Linking financial incentives with goals

Keeping the Motivation Going

Chapter 13: Health and Wellbeing

Avoiding Illness and Disease

Creating a Healthier Lifestyle

Deciding your food priorities

Quitting smoking

Staying sober

Taking time out to relax and recharge

Making exercise fun

Chapter 14: Developing and Growing Your Emotions and Your Behaviour

Setting Out On Your Emotional Journey

Identifying your feelings

Choosing the right responses

Leaping Forward

Making Personal Changes

Growing and Developing through New Challenges

Embracing change

Leaving your comfort zone

Chapter 15: Motivating Your Relationships

Identifying What Motivates Your Family

Examining your family’s motivators

Meeting your family’s preferences

Knowing What Motivates Your Colleagues

Creating a motivating support group

Exploring a win/win approach

Acknowledging Individuality

Exploring hidden talents

Embracing personal choice

Tuning into other people’s values

Thinking about individual preferences

Discovering Your Mindsets

Knowing why mindsets matter

Changing your mindset

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 16: Ten Great Motivating People

David Beckham

Richard Branson

Winston Churchill

Lewis Hamilton

Nelson Mandela

Jamie Oliver

The Queen

JK Rowling

Margaret Thatcher

Tiger Woods

Chapter 17: Ten (Or So) Motivational Exercises

Using Similes to Boost Your Motivation

Thinking Like a Child

Taking the Brain’s Perspective

Drawing a Motivated Person

Using Role Models

Taking a Different Approach

Creating a Motivational Resource Bank

Having Fun with Pictures

Motivation Through Exercise

Playing the Game of Reversal

Six Words Motivational Exercise

Chapter 18: Ten Daily Actions for Keeping Your Motivation High

Keeping Focused On Your End Goal

Taking Time Out to Speak with Your Friends

Planning Your Time

Having Contingency Plans in Place

Tuning Into Your Intuition

Knowing the Value of Half Time

Dealing with Your Fears

Doing Something Enjoyable Towards Your Goal

Keeping Your Confidence High

Rewarding Yourself for Successes along the Way

Appendix: Resource List

Cheat Sheet

Motivation For Dummies®

by Gillian Burn

Motivation For Dummies®

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About the Author

Gillian Burn is a health consultant, coach, and trainer. She specialises in enabling individuals and companies to improve their energy and personal effectiveness by focusing on enhancing health and quality of life. She is the editor of Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies and the author of two management pocketbooks – the Energy and Well-Being Pocketbook and the NLP Pocketbook.

Gillian’s health career started in nursing, midwifery, and health visiting, alongside a period working with the Flying Doctor Service in the Australian outback. Her business career began with BUPA, a major health care company, designing programmes to improve health at work and reduce sickness absence. Gillian’s management experience covered sales, marketing, team management, and product design for health-at-work initiatives delivered to major organisations throughout the UK.

Gillian is director of her own company – Health Circles Ltd – providing a range of well-being and motivation initiatives for companies throughout the UK and Europe. Her training programmes include exercise, nutrition, stress and time management, communication, and creating peak energy. She also runs personal effectiveness courses, including mind mapping® and speed reading.

Passionate about supporting people to boost their energy, creativeness, and motivation, Gillian believes that everyone has the skills and talent to make positive changes to enable them to reach their full potential and peak performance.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Writing this book has given me the opportunity to put into practice all the tips, tools, and ideas I have believed in to keep me on track and maintain my own motivation.

To my family, clients, colleagues, Pilates students, and fellow trainers, thank you for your stories, anecdotes, inspiration, and support.

To the whole team at Wiley, including Sam, Wejdan, and Steve, who have kept me on track and provided gentle guidance and encouragement throughout the project.

To my partner John for his amazing encouragement to help me on the whole journey and for your patience for the hours I have been attached to the computer.

Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank my colleague Liz Harris, whose editorial advice and continual support has been tremendous and a wonderful guiding voice throughout the whole project.

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Cartoons: Ed McLachlan

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Introduction

Motivation is all about having the willpower to get started – and once you get going it can direct your life in many ways. It’s possible to feel more motivated at some stages of your life than at others, or that your motivation is being affected by other people and events around you. You may even be asking yourself how well motivated you are and whether you could be better!

Motivation For Dummies helps you understand the key elements of motivation and how motivation influences your behaviour and achieving your goals. I’ve designed each chapter to help you apply the principles of motivation to different areas of your life in a variety of situations, with stories, activities, and exercises to help you along the way. I encourage you to jump in, use the tools, and have a go. Often you find what you’re looking for while trying out new ideas.