I have just put together a list of motivational blog posts that I have found lately. I hope you will enjoy these posts as much as I did. I do also recommend you to visit the main blogs where these articles are posted, as they are just not single great post, but they are a part of good blogs. I hope you will find these posts useful as I have tried to compile different kind of posts about motivation to provide you with different views on the topic. Enjoy!

Motivate yourself without hard deadlines
 

This is a rather long blog post, but …

Have you ever tried to achieve a task and failed? What do you do when it isn’t working? Do you feel frustrated when you do not reach your goal? Is it something wrong with your goal? Should you settle with a C paper when you can get an A? How can you manage to reach your goal, when you have failed and failed again?
Confucius was a wise man and one quote that I do love is this one “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
There is a lot true …

Being motivated equals the ability to achieve goals and completing tasks faster. Business leaders chase better results and need even more “motivated” employees. And the motivated employees provide even better results on paper. Motivation does not work as easy as we expect it to do. Have you tried dieting? Learning a new language? It is hard, and most likely you will fail. Motivational coaches are being brought in to provide more motivation and better results. It might work, but you need to know motivation is also about failure and resistance.
Motivational factors
Motivation is a multidimensional phenomenon. It is driven by inner …

Fun at work is essential for success, results are essential for fun to appear. I bet you will agree that results won’t surface in a hostile environment. This is why hard work and fun is the true Romeo and Juliette at the office. I have been to some seminars about fun at work and just a few touches the importance of results. Good results give you the power and confidence to stand tall in everyday life. And one more thing; it starts at Monday morning.
Monday Morning Blues
I don’t like Mondays – A major hit at the end of the 1970’s …

I am a soccer fan; I have played for years in the lower divisions until a shoulder injury forced my goalkeeper gloves to be put in the darkest places of the closet. I never became good at this game, but I still had fun and joy playing against the worst soccer players in the Norwegian soccer league. How is your team doing? Today I want to compare soccer and business life to show why you should be the star player always.
The Team – What division are you playing in?
First of all imagine your department as a soccer team. How is …

I was engaging in an interesting conversation the other day. A friend of mine was feeling blue. Life sucks big time. I soon understood that my friend was focusing on small obstacles and things that are out of his control. We talked for a while. What was bringing him down? Well it was the little things in life like trouble at work, little sleep, feeling inadequate. I started by asking about what he is proud about so far. Well, my wife, kids, I actually got a great job, my education is good. These are examples of answers that fell upon …