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1: Being Motivated to Build Your Business

An entrepreneur takes a path that few others care to even consider. Self-employment means taking risks and creating value based upon an idea or vision. That vision, and how clearly it is focused, d...

By: Ken Austin

2: What Motivates Us to Lose Weight

In the Western world, obesity is a “growing” problem. Excess fat and the burden it places on our bodies and health has become an actual crisis.

By: Ken Austin

3: How to Motivate Your Team

The challenge of motivating a team is in direct proportion to how much the team is being forced to act by leaders, rather than being given autonomy and power to direct its own actions. ...

By: Ken Austin

4: How to Motivate Students from Day One

Student apathy and lack of motivation can often be traced to a lack of effective teaching strategies. If a teacher simply tries to attack a lack of motivation directly, the apathetic students will ...

By: Ken Austin

5: Self-Motivation: How to Motivate Yourself

Self-motivation begins with a simple idea. Everything we create begins with an idea. The activity of our minds produces thoughts, but an idea can become a ph...

By: Ken Austin

6: Defining Motivation and Powerful Methods of Motivating Yours...

No matter whether you want to motivate others or yourself, the same challenge must be met: getting from inaction to positive action. Even negative action is a better starting point than lack of act...

By: Ken Austin

7: Intrinsic Motivation: Motivated from Within

All motivation is self-motivation. Even though there are many methods that leaders use to increase the motivation of followers, the most successful motivators enable the ability to discover and use...

By: Ken Austin

8: Human Motivation: What Motivates People

Pain and pleasure are the two main motivators of human behavior: avoiding or eliminating pain and obtaining or increasing pleasure. ...

By: Ken Austin

9: Extrinsic Motivation: Motivation from Outside the Self

Extrinsic motivation is very nearly a contradiction in terms. All motivation is self-motivation. Nevertheless, external forces can motivate people to perform work.

By: Ken Austin

10: Motivating Your Employees Without Using Bribery or Fear

Employee motivation is an age-old challenge for business owners. Most employers simply do what most other employers have done.

By: Ken Austin

Why Self Esteem Matters

A number of years ago I worked for one of the UK’s top IT companies -- a global player. We were meeting to discuss a major bid, and the room was filled with people who didn’t meet often -- the most senior manag...

By: Jim Sullivan

Motivation To Do List

I have a little game I like to play called "The big to-do." ...

By: Ken Austin

Put Your Expectations to Work for You

Do you expect to be successful?  Or do you spend much of your time worrying and obsessing about the possibility of failure? ...

By: Ken Austin

Playing in the shadow of the Maple Leafs gives the Toronto Marlies extra motivation to succeed as individuals and as a team.

Being a big fish in a small pond can be a frustrating endeavor in the subjective, insulated world of mixed martial arts. Fairly or unfairly, a fighter is often only as good as his résumé, and when tha...

Queensland will find motivation for the State of Origin series through  the spirit of recently-deceased Maroons legend Arthur Beetson.

Community exercise events, such as the HBF Run for a Reason, are a great opportunity for people to enjoy the positive benefits of exercise.

Playing in the shadow of the Maple Leafs gives the Toronto Marlies extra motivation to succeed as individuals and as a team.