Shandler Steve 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself (Revised Edition)

224 Pages·2016·1.62 MB·English

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100 Ways to
Motivate
Yourself
Revised Edition
Change Your Life
Forever
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100 Ways to
Motivate
Yourself
Revised Edition
Change Your Life
Forever
Steve Chandler
Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Copyright 2004 by Steve Chandler
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The Career Press.
100 WAYSTO MOTIVATE YOURSELF
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To Kathryn Anne Chandler
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Acknowledgments
To Robert Brink and Jodi Brandon for the master-
ful editing, to Lindsay Brady for the ongoing percep-
tion of success, to Stephanie Chandler for tirelessly
working the cosmos, to Kathy for more than I can say,
to Jim Brannigan for the representation, to Fred Knipe
for the music on New Year’s Eve, to Ron Fry for Career
Press, to Karen Wolf for the international distribution,
to Nathaniel Branden for the psychology, to Colin Wil-
son for the philosophy, to Arnold Schwarzenegger for a
day to remember, to Rett Nichols for the tension plan,
to Graham Walsh for the Tavern on the Green, to Terry
Hill for the century’s first real mystery novel, to Cindy
Chandler for the salvation, to Ed and Jeanne for the
Wrigley Mansion, to John Shade for the fire, to Scott
Richardson for the ideas, to Ann Coulter for the wake-
up calls, to Steven Forbes Hardison for coaching and
friendship beyond the earthly norm, and to Dr. Deepak
Chopra for unconcealing the creative intelligence that
holds us all together.
And to the memory of Art Hill:
without whom,
no life, no nothin’.
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Contents
Preface: Cyber Motivation 11
Introduction: You have no personality 15
100 Ways
1. Get on your deathbed 19
2. Stay hungry 21
3. Tell yourself a true lie 23
4. Keep your eyes on the prize 24
5. Learn to sweat in peace 25
6. Simplify your life 27
7. Look for the lost gold 31
8. Push all your own buttons 33
9. Build a track record 34
10. Welcome the unexpected 35
11. Find your master key 36
12. Put your library on wheels 38
13. Definitely plan your work 41
14. Bounce your thoughts 42
15. Light your lazy dynamite 44
16. Choose the happy few 45
17. Learn to play a role 47
18. Don’t just do something…sit there 48
19. Use your brain chemicals 50
20. Leave high school forever 52
21. Learn to lose your cool 54
22. Kill your television 56
23. Break out of your soul cage 57
24. Run your own plays 58
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25. Find your inner Einstein 60
26. Run toward your fear 62
27. Create the way you relate 64
28. Try interactive listening 66
29. Embrace your willpower 67
30. Perform your little rituals 68
31. Find a place to come from 70
32. Be your own disciple 71
33. Turn into a word processor 73
34. Program your biocomputer 73
35. Open your present 75
36. Be a good detective 76
37. Make a relation-shift 78
38. Learn to come from behind 79
39. Come to your own rescue 82
40. Find your soul purpose 85
41. Get up on the right side 90
42. Let your whole brain play 91
43. Get your stars out 93
44. Just make everything up 93
45. Put on your game face 96
46. Discover active relaxation 98
47. Make today a masterpiece 99
48. Enjoy all your problems 101
49. Remind your mind 103
50. Get down and get small 106
51. Advertise to yourself 108
52. Think outside the box 111
53. Keep thinking, keep thinking 113
54. Put on a good debate 117
55. Make trouble work for you 119
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56. Storm your own brain 122
57. Keep changing your voice 124
58. Embrace the new frontier 126
59. Upgrade your old habits 128
60. Paint your masterpiece today 130
61. Swim laps underwater 132
62. Bring on a good coach 133
63. Try to sell your home 138
64. Get your soul to talk 140
65. Promise the moon 141
66. Make somebody’s day 142
67. Play the circle game 143
68. Get up a game 147
69. Turn your mother down 150
70. Face the sun 150
71. Travel deep inside 152
72. Go to war 153
73. Use the 5% solution 155
74. Do something badly 157
75. Learn visioneering 159
76. Lighten things up 162
77. Serve and grow rich 164
78. Make a list of your life 165
79. Set a specific power goal 168
80. Change yourself first 169
81. Pin your life down 170
82. Take no for a question 172
83. Take the road to somewhere 174
84. Go on a news fast 175
85. Replace worry with action 178
86. Run with the thinkers 181