Six Ways to Become More Self-Motivated

1. Spend Your Time on Tasks You Enjoy
2. Take Pride in What You’re Doing
3. Think About the Outcome
4. Be Careful With Your Use of Rewards
5. Learn Something New
6. Stay Focused While You’re Working

via Six Ways to Become More Self-Motivated – by Dumb Little Man.

Anything You Want: 21 Inspiring Ideas From Derek Sivers

Inspiring Ideas From “Anything You Want” By Derek Sivers

1. Business is not about money. Its about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

2. When you make a company, you make a utopia. Its where you design your perfect world.

3. Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting whats not working.

4. A quick glance and common sense should tell you if the numbers will work. The rest are details.

5. “Revolution” is a term that people use only when youre successful. Before that, youre just a quirky person who does things differently.

via Anything You Want: 21 Inspiring Ideas From Derek Sivers.

The Must-Have Leadership Skill – Daniel Goleman – Harvard Business Review

From Daniel Goleman..

You can be the most brilliant innovator, problem-solver or strategic thinker, but if you cant inspire and motivate, build relationships or communicate powerfully, those talents will get you nowhere. What Zenger and colleagues call the “interpersonal skills” — and what I call social intelligence — are the secret sauce in top-performing leadership.

Lacking social intelligence, no other combination of competences is likely to get much traction. Along with whatever other strengths they may have, the must-have is social intelligence.

via The Must-Have Leadership Skill – Daniel Goleman – Harvard Business Review.