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Five Motivation Books You Can Read in a Weekend

Five Motivating Books You Can Read in a Weekend

If you are looking for motivation and want a jolt of it now, consider one of these five books that can be read in a day or two. More

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Why Children are Choosing Computer Games Over Sports

Get Off the Computer: Youth Sports Can Learn from Video Games

When you can't drag your child away from the computer ask yourself “what is it about this experience that is more important than More

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Michael Neill TED Talk Why Aren't We Awesomer

Why Aren't We Awesomer?

Michael Neill with his exceptional TED talk. Remember that you are never more than one thought away from... More

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More Financial Freedom? More Discipline!

More Financial Freedom? More Discipline!

“…a disciple is one who stays focused on what really matters, and is careful about letting other less important issues or concerns get in the way.” More

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What mentally strong people don't do.

What Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

Psychologist Amy Morin presents a powerful list of what mentally strong people don't do. For example, mentally strong people do not shy away from change. More

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The endless benefits of working hard

The Endless Benefits of Wise Sacrifice and Working Hard

Hard work and sacrifice is not a simple concept. But once you have integrated it harmoniously into your life, it will become the vessel that transports you to success. More

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Grit is it

Grit: What It Takes To Get It Done

Grit, or grinding away to stick with it, is the key to success. It's how motivated you are to keep going. More

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Surprising Steps to More Prosperity - Free Yourself of Physical Clutter—All That Stuff

Surprising Steps to More Prosperity

The more you collect any kind of clutter, the more possibility of being stuck, and less opportunity for the energy of prosperity to appear in your life. More

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The power of coconut...eat, drink, and be healthy!

The Power of the Coconut: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy!

Coconut is one of the healthiest foods you are probably not eating (or drinking!). More

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Sometimes you win sometimes you learn

Sometimes You Win and Sometimes You Learn

It's true that sometimes you're going to hit home-runs while other times you will strike out BUT as long as you gain knowledge then you've already succeeded. More

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Little Steps = Lasting Change

Little Steps = Lasting Change

Just remember, when you feel like a million bucks… it all started with one.” More

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Putting the Ball in Your Kid's Court

Putting the Ball in Your Kid's Court

Putting the ball in your kid’s court empowers them. It makes them want to be active. Ultimately, it makes them happy. More

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One-of-Three-Pathways-To-A-Better-Life

One of Three: Pathways To A Better Life

In the game of "Real Life", I've noticed that there are three pathways we can take, each one of which leads to a completely different experience with our circumstances, dreams, and goals... More

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Dare To Succeed: Great Results are Just Ahead

Dare to Succeed. Stay Motivated. Great Results Are Just Ahead.

What are you daring to believe, do, or pursue? Where do you find your motivation? May your adventures—big or small—bring you closer to your truth of what’s possible for you. More

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Exercise vs. Movement: which is best ?

Exercise vs. Movement: Which is the Most Beneficial?

Research shows that long periods of sitting have negative effects on our health that are not fully erased even if we demonstrate healthy habits after work. More

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Can you be financially fearless?

Can You Be Financially Fearless?

When you see clearly that your well-being is an independent variable and has no relationship to your bank balance, the easier it is to be fearless around money. More

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Nine movies with incredible life lessons

Nine Movies with Incredible Life Lessons

Cuddle up with a mind wide open and watch these to find motivation, wisdom, and power. More

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Are You a Leader?

Are You a Leader? Find Out How and Why Your Answer to this Question is Yes...

Nearly 400,000 have watched Drew Dudley's TED video on leadership. We are honored to count him as a contributor to Motivation.com. He is a visionary leader. More

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20 Tips To Ensure You Get Enough Sleep

21 Tips To Get Enough Sleep

We all need a good night’s sleep, but it’s not uncommon to struggle with getting one. It’s estimated that one in three people will suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives. More

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New Year, New You?

Ready for a New You?

I have been obese most of my life. I changed my lifestyle when I discovered I was truly unhappy with how I felt and looked around at all the things I just couldn’t do. I’m now a Zumba Instructor and am able to do more than ever. More

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The favorite books of ten world leaders.

Favorite Books of 10 World Leaders

From Bill Gates to Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson to Sheryl Sandberg, here are the favorite books of government, business, religious and entertainment leaders. Check out Nelson Mandela's favorite! More

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Money Matters: See what money is good for and what money is terrible at to adjust how you earn.

Money Matters

When you stop trying to make money to make yourself feel better you realize that the better you feel, the easier it is to make money. More

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The energy of an introvert

The Energy of an Introvert

If you are an introvert, you’ve probably asked yourself many times: Am I ok? More

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Finding clarity in stillness

Finding Clarity in Four Minutes

Find your clarity by gifting yourself four minutes of stillness each day. Find your breath and focus your mind on your heart. More

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30 questions to ask your kid instead of how was your day?

30 Questions to Ask Your Children Instead of "How Was Your Day"?

Do you want to make your relationship with your kid(s) even better? Here is one of the best articles ever written on communicating with your children, grandchildren, or any children. More

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Lion chasers realize that impossible odds can become improbably victories.

How to Raise a Lion Chaser

Rachel will be a huge success in sport and life because she sees opportunity instead of risk. She takes failure and success in stride. She marches to her own beat instead of trying to please everyone else. And whenever others take a step back because they see problems, failure and fear, she steps forward and says “I’ll take it.” More

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Preserve Your Relationship

Preserve Your Relationship

Please don't quit in your relationships. Don’t quit on you. Don’t quit on them. Don’t quit on the possibility of being able to work through anything, together. There is always a solution if you are willing to do whatever it takes to find it. I promise, there is a way to preserve relationships. More

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Right Leadership

Right Leading

...a culture built on love and respect, and not fear and punishment, will produce the strongest, healthiest, and most successful teams. More

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Why The Geese Get It Right

Why the Geese Get it Right

There is no designated “leader of the pack” with a flock of geese—it is a shared leadership model that relies on every member of the group assuming a lead role in getting the team to their destination. More

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You Always Have a Choice

You Always Have a Choice

Surrender. By surrendering, you are actually taking the lead. You are in control. More

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The Cost Of

The Cost of "Waiting For Someday"

The events of that year brought home the “power of now” with all the subtlety of a high-impact collision… or two. More

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The only excuse you will ever need.

The Only Excuse You Will Ever Need

Here’s the advice, simple and unadulterated: Just tell the truth. More

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Nine lessons from a ten-time startup failure

Nine Lessons from a 10-Time Startup Failure

Looking to start your own business and for it to be wildly successful right out of the gate? Good for you! Go do it. Stay motivated. More

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The gift of courage

The Gift of Courage

Courage allows your unique greatness to be revealed and shared with the world, enlivening all of us as you live with passion and purpose. More

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The six qualities of wildly successful people

The Six Qualities of Wildly Successful People by Brian Tracy

Prepared. Committed. Courageous. These are three of the qualities. The others might surprise you. More

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Why detoxification matters

Why Detoxification Matters!

If we’re healthy, the body will get by, but as we are exposed to more and more toxins, if our immune system is compromised in any way, the body will struggle and a myriad of health conditions can occur. More

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Enjoy the Little Things, for One Day You May Look Back and Realize They Were the Big Things

Enjoy the Little Things, for One Day You May Look Back and Realize They Were the Big Things

Our day to day lives are filled with meaningful things that we often pass off because they seem small compared to what we expect to happen. More

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Are You Stuck? Ten Ways to Make Up Your Mind

Are You Stuck? Ten Ways to Make Up Your Mind

Is making a decision getting in the way of you moving forward? Do you feel stuck because you can't decide what to do? Find the motivation to do what you want! More

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If My Life Were a Book and I Was the Author

If My Life Was a Book and I Was the Author...Amy Purdy and Oprah Winfrey

Ask yourself: "If my life was a book and I was the author, how would I want this story to go?" More

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Stephen Curry: Success is Not an Accident

Stephen Curry: Success is Not an Accident it is a Choice

Are the habits that you have today on par with the dreams that you have for tomorrow? More

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Want to Lead? Learn to Follow.

Want to Lead? Learn to Follow.

These are people who are passionate, people who are motivated to succeed, people who value those around them, and people who are quick to share praise and adulation with their team members. All of these traits emerge from lessons learned as an engaged follower. More

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The Snoopy philosophy: a revealing look at your life.

The Snoopy / Charles Schulz Philosophy: A Revealing Look at YOUR Life

Find motivation as you answer the question "Who makes the most difference in your life?" More

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Make someone's day today, as if it were their birthday.

Today is My Birthday!

Please watch this video and get motivated to make someone's day special. Like it is their birthday. You have that capacity. More

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Staying positive around negative people

Staying POSITIVE Around NEGATIVE People

Find the motivation and techniques to deal with negative people, also known as Positive Energy Sucking Twits (PESTs). More

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Luke Dancy Twitter Connect

Motivation at Your Fingertips

Now when you’re having one of those days when you feel like you’re alone or that nobody cares all you need to do is connect to the goodness that is literally all around you all the time. More

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Serve your soul and help the world

Serve Your Soul

To hear your soul’s calling is usually a matter of listening. To follow your soul’s calling is usually a matter of acting. More

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Put Down Your Devices and Make Good Times with Your Kids

Face Time! Put Down Your Devices and Make Good Times with Your Kids

Looking to find the motivation to put down your personal device? With all the research on the benefits (and scarcity) of family dinners and family leisure time, it’s surprising to see the number of kids sitting at the table or at home with phones or other devices. More

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Focus on you.

Focus on You: A Better You Makes a Better World!

It seems like such a simple thing but let's be honest; aren't YOU worth 20 minutes a day?? More

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Your weight loss is only about you

Your Weight Loss is About You

Once you have decided what you are willing to do to reach your goal, tell your family and friends. Tell them how they can support you and provide motivation. Do not buy into “oh, you aren’t fat”. More

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7 tips for creating the best exercise plan for you

7 Tips for Creating the Best Exercise Plan for YOU

New Year’s Resolution to get healthier gone awry? Or maybe you are struggling with ramping up your work out? We maybe know why. More

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The benefits of suffering

The Benefits of Suffering by the Best-Selling Author of "Keep Your Man Out of My Bed"

Complaining, feeling powerless or denying your feelings will get you nowhere fast and get you more of the same el crappo you have now. More

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Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel Live

The Way You Make Me Feel! Get Up and Dance and Share This With Someone Who Makes You Feel Good!

It's time to dance, to Michael Jackson, live. Strut your stuff and share this with someone who makes you feel good! More

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15 questions to ask yourself

Not Living The Life You Want? 15 Questions to Ask Yourself

...exercising the courage to be your real self, making your life what you want it to be... More

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Help the person nearest to you

Help The Person Nearest You

Strangers became family by simply helping the person next to them. More

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The Truth About Heartbreak

The Truth About Heartbreak

The heartbreaks won’t ever stop coming as far as I know and that is OK with me. It’s OK because it means that I am still putting myself out there in the world offering my best self. The mantra I use daily, I’ve been doing it so long now it’s almost unconscious, is this: “Here’s me on a silver platter, take it or leave it.” More

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To Be Or Not To Be...Present

To Be Or Not To Be...Present

Instead of focusing on ourselves and how we feel, we tend to demonize the other person and make up stories to explain why we feel the way we do about their behavior. More

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Simple New Year's Stuff

Simple New Year's Stuff

Either Celebrate or Mourn, but either way learn the lessons that were there. If you finished last year on a high note, great! Make sure and celebrate that victory in whatever fashion you feel appropriate. If last year was not what you hoped it would be, there is value there too. Whatever the results were, the truth is it was most likely less than 2% of your Life. More

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Practice Gratitude: A Why and How of a More Satisfying Life

Practice Gratitude: A Why and How of a More Satisfying Life

It is virtually impossible to be fearful, anxious, or sad at the same time you are grateful. So, why not as a matter of course regularly enable and empower goodness in your life by expressing what you are thankful for? This does not require any more time or energy than you already have or expend. It is simply redirecting thought. More

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