Quotes About Motivation

After you put your feet on the floor in the morning, immediately say this phrase, "It's going to be a great day." As you say these seven words, try to feel optimistic and positive.

So many frustrating family dynamics and workplace dramas erupt because of the misplaced belief that manipulation motivation is the key to changing behavior. But now you know that simplicity is what reliably changes behavior.

Step 1: Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress.

Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.

Um comportamento acontece quando os três elementos do MCP — Motivação, Capacidade e Prompt — convergem em mesmo momento. Motivação é o seu desejo de adotar determinado comportamento. Capacidade é a sua possibilidade de adotar determinado comportamento. E prompt é o seu estímulo para adotar determinado comportamento.

No behavior happens without a prompt.

many cases, you'll find your lack of doing a behavior is not a motivation issue at all. You can solve for the behavior by finding a good prompt or by making the behavior easier to do.

Don't pressure yourself to do more than the tiniest version of your habit. If you're sick, tired, or just not in the mood, scale back to tiny.

Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

You select one of your aspirations, then come up with a bunch of specific behaviors that can help you achieve your aspiration.

Many different behaviors can lead to your aspiration

When you follow Maxim #1 and match yourself with Golden Behaviors, you don't need to work hard to sustain or manipulate motivation.

A Golden Behavior has three criteria. The behavior is effective in realizing your aspiration (impact) You want to do the behavior (motivation) You can do the behavior (ability)

Despite all this, go big or go home is the way many people approach change. As a result, most people don't know how to think tiny.

Hope and fear are vectors that push against each other, and the sum of those two vectors is your overall motivation level.

People respond reliably to prompts when they are motivated and able, which is exactly what makes well-timed prompts so powerful.

If she wants to start a new habit, she gets excited and curious instead of overwhelmed.

Write your aspiration inside the cloudlike shape shown in the graphic. Then start filling in the boxes with specific behaviors.

If you can remove the vector of fear, then hope will predominate, and your overall motivation level will be higher, which may move you above the Action Line—and you do the behavior.

Make the behavior so tiny that you don't need much motivation.

Here's what my one-time behavior looks like when you break it down. Behavior (B): Donating via text to the Red Cross. Motivation (M): I wanted to help the victims of a devastating disaster. Ability (A): It was easy to reply to a text message. Prompt (P): I was prompted by a text message from the Red Cross.

We should be dreamy about aspirations but not about the behaviors that will get us there. Behaviors are grounded. Concrete. They are the handholds and footholds that get you up the rock face. Your path to the top is your own, and you choose your behaviors according to the particular rock you are climbing.

In Behavior Design we match ourselves with new habits we can do even when we are at our most hurried, unmotivated, and beautifully imperfect. If you can imagine yourself doing the behavior on your hardest day of the week, it's probably a good match. It's probably a Golden Behavior.