Posts Tagged "work"
Motivation Formula—Part 2: When Kids Don’t Care About a Clean Room

Self-motivation is natural and automatic, unless you've been taught that it's "making yourself do something you don't want to do." In my previous post, Motivation Formula & How to Use It—Part I, I explained what self-motivation actually is and how it works. My simple formula for self-motivation is: Want + Possible = Action A reader tested this out and had a couple of questions...
Read MoreHow Things Really Work

"Do what you should, and things will work out." Does that sound familiar to you? When this belief statement came up in a private coaching session with a client I recognized it immediately because I was raised to believe it, too. "Do what you should, and things will work out," was touted as the basic formula for success and was a close relative of the mid-western work ethic of "hard...
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