THE ROOT OF MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE

Every one wants to perform, except those who self-sabotage. They self-sabotage because their conscious minds want to succeed, but another programme deep within does not, and – critically – does not really believe that they can.   Why is performance so important? Because we are all being judged by everybody else every minute of theContinue reading “THE ROOT OF MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE”

THE THREE COLOURS OF MOTIVATION

There are three colours of motivation. Which one is motivating you this winter?   First, there is Green motivation. Green motivation is very strong – perhaps the strongest of all. If it were a sound it would be a big deep bass note – vibrating and resonating in the very core of us. As aContinue reading “THE THREE COLOURS OF MOTIVATION”

END OF YEAR THOUGHTS

Welcome everyone to the end of the year; it’s great to think we’ve made it! Not only, hopefully, are we still alive, but our businesses are still running too. This latter point is probably more surprising than actually physically existing, given the sheer incompetence of Governments, especially ours in the UK, and the general greedContinue reading “END OF YEAR THOUGHTS”

MOTIVATE YOUR CAREER

Occasionally, you get a staggering email, and realise you – or rather your product – has made an astonishing difference. Of course, I also happen to believe that I – and others with a similar philosophy, attitude and outlook – make massive differences all the time; it’s just we are not always aware of it.Continue reading “MOTIVATE YOUR CAREER”

DAN PINK AND MOTIVATION

My friend, Pascoe Sawyers, http://www.mylifeismybusiness.co.uk (check out his website – he has a great book out and there is a video clip of him live) sent me recently a link to Dan Pink’s talk at Oxford on motivation: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html In eighteen minutes Dan puts in a tremendous performance, and covers a lot of ground. TheContinue reading “DAN PINK AND MOTIVATION”

THE SELF ESTEEM QUESTION

I was recently on a coaching forum and found a question about self-esteem: what had readers seen of literature specifically about coaching to build self-esteem? The person asking the question was doing an MA on the topic, so great for him to get loads of helpful references. For me, however, it reminded me of theContinue reading “THE SELF ESTEEM QUESTION”

LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION

As many of you know, our company specialises in the language and metrics of motivation. You would think – at least in business – that motivation was/is an indispensable part of the ‘mix’. By which I mean: every organisation should actively consider a strategy for motivation for all its staff. The assumption, for example, thatContinue reading “LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION”