Motivation on the Run

In looking back over the articles of the last few weeks, there seems to be a bent toward the serious. One would think that motivation and leadership was all work and no fun, but that is not an accurate description. The only touch (of fun) was talking about the fun things to do for getting [...]

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 ToastmasterKeynote [17:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The premise of this Toastmaster speech is a “pretend” Keynote Address for a conference and since it was my speech and my conference, I decided the conference would be on motivation and so I developed the speech with that in mind.
My evaluator and the other gave me some good feedback and after listening to [...]

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My Toastmaster speaking assignment this week is to present a “Keynote Address” for a mythical conference, with the speech of about twenty minutes in length. In working on this assignment, I have decided the conference will center around motivation, and, as such, it will make a good podcast.
My goal is to record the [...]

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Jonathon wrote a comment about people being motivated either by fear or joy and used the example of people getting to work on time because of fear. Here is part of the comment (click link for complete comment).
I prefer however to break this down to a different group, a more polar list. Good vs. bad.
I [...]

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I wanted to remind everyone to vote in the poll located in the right navigation bar. A lot of people have read the original post from last week and some comments have been left, but I know for a fact that a lot of you have been skating and have not voted.
The question now [...]

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I started working on an article about the effect of procrastination on motivation last week, but a link to this article in Psychology Today’s website from 2003 says it very well. The list of ten things to know is right on the mark and if you are a procrastinator, or know one, you need to [...]

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Three weeks ago yesterday, I made public one of my goals for the new year. The goal was to post more content on the blogs, which required more writing. One action item was to write for 1 hour each day, Monday through Friday, and this goal is becoming hard to achieve. Yesterday I did not [...]

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 Motivation35 [21:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

TaDa! Motivation35 is finished and a great time was had by all. All the kings horses and all the kings men had a roaring good time while listening to this week’s podcast.
I talk about the happenings since we last spoke on the 1st, about two books, one paperback, one audio, that I am listening to [...]

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Hiring, Firing, and compensation packages were the highlight of yesterday’s all day seminar sponsored by Cisco and TechData, and I decided the long day was worth it as I dragged my tired body to the elevator and into the car for the hour+ drive home.
Acumen Management Group’s Ken Thorenson delivered two days worth of [...]

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This weeks poll results from looking at successful and unsuccessful people and trying to determine the difference between them. Is it effort, luck (which could be defined as part of fate), what you know, who you know, or fate that decides whether you succeed or fail? Of course, this brings up the question of how [...]

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