July 17th, 2010 → 8:06 am @ Nigel
Fuel for Motivation How can you stay energized in the face of so many obstacles? Why do some people look at life from a positive point of view all the time? What is the formula for success? The prime ingredient in any success story is motivation. Motivation is the driving force to keep going, “when the going gets tough.” In order for you to stay motivated about anything, you must choose something you have a passion for. This will help you to stay inspired in good, or bad, economic times. So before you consider motivation, do some self-analysis and realize your passion. This must be something you would love to do every day, and don’t consider it to be work, because you enjoy it so much. How many of us have known an artist or musician that pursued his, or her, dream. Some make money, and some don’t, but all put a lot of work into their passion. They do this willingly, because their work inspired them. It wasn’t the money that kept them going. The life of most artists, or musicians, is one of economic struggle, even in the best of economic times. Once you have found your passion, make sure it is something that will help others in some way. This allows you to feel positive about your work and find solutions for people’s problems, which leads to the first factor needed to stay motivated, all the time. The first factor is gratification in your work. Without it, why should any of us want to keep working at a goal every day? So, you must have a dee Read More
July 16th, 2010 → 7:35 am @ Nigel
Idea to Spark Real Change in Teenagers Life How to Positive Teenagers?Proactive people make things happen whereas reactive people let things happen to them. So one key skill to develop in your teenager is to help them take responsibility for their own happiness and direction in life as this helps them to be in the driving seat of their life and not just a passenger. The way you can help your teenager develop being proactive is to be a role model yourself and to watch the language you use to describe things happening around you. Reactive language takes power away from you and gives it to something or someone else. It’s like giving the remote control of your life away to someone else, whereas proactive, positive language let’s you choose which channel you want to be on. Here are some ideas for using more positive, proactive language that you and your kids could have fun re-framing. Change your reactive language of “I can’t” into more proactive language of “There must be a way I can do this”. From “There’s nothing I can do” into “I wonder what the other options are?” From “I have to…” into “I choose to…” And away from “I ought to…” into “I want to….” And finally from “That’s just the way I am” into “I know I can do better than this.” So you can see how important it is to develop this “can-do” app Read More
July 16th, 2010 → 7:31 am @ Nigel
Teenagers: Reaching Your Potential Isn’t it great to see a teenager working hard; doing as they are told. Keeping with the right company; keen to do homework – even when none is set. Always in a book; producing top levels in their SATS and top grades in tests. Respectful, helpful and kind; keen to learn at every opportunity. Goes out and has fun too, but in moderation; likes music, but will do something useful while listening; and of course, has high expectations of themselves, and good ambitions. This teenager will always put in 100% effort. They achieve the best they could possible do, and they deal maturely and philosophically with problems. If your teenager and other teens you know are as above then you need read no further. Congratulations!!!! How to Motivate Teenagers? Use whatever means possible to motivate teenagers. Get them to increase their productivity and motivation. Get them to stop wasting time. Find out why they are not doing three times the amount of work that they presently do. Intensify their yearning to learn. At least fifty per cent of teens perform below their potential at school. Is this success? Or failure. The challenge is for you to get them to be fed up with mediocre performances. Achievement is not just about examination grades and levels, but also the development of other skills such as sport, music, drama, computer skills in depth research, writing and other worthwhile hobbies. In today’s pr Read More
