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How To Get Motivated – 8 Tips and Tricks to Get Motivated Today!
How To Get Motivated – 8 Tips and Tricks to Get Motivated Today!:
Unmotivated.
How To Get Motivated – 8 Tips to Break Your Motivational Funk
Unmotivated.
Demotivated.
Uninspired.
Call it what you want, we all know the feeling. Where my goals are concerned, if needed I am capable of just working through whatever needs to be done regardless of how I feel. Wouldn’t it be better though, if I could first get motivated and then get to work? I think so – I work harder, get more satisfaction out of it, and suspect I am more effective when I am motivated rather than just trying to get through a task.
These strategies for getting motivated aren’t silver bullets – there will absolutely be times where you simply can’t get motivated to do something, and have to do it anyway. In most cases though, I usually am able to use one of these strategies to break out of a motivational funk.
8 Tips For How To Get Motivated Today
- Find Your Mantra or Slogan. A mantra doesn’t have to be long. Raam’s mantra is taken from Aristotle you are what you repeatedly do. Raam expanded on it and gave me permission to post the full thing. I love it -“Get out and do something. Move. Interact. Explore. Breathe. Take a chance.Stop voluntarily wasting your life. Stop complaining and saying you’re bored. It’s your life. Do something with it.You are what you repeatedly do.”You’ve probably already guessed my mantra if you’ve read the past few articles: value your time. Everyone has their own life to live, and I can’t tell your what your mantra is – but I bet you probably already have something in mind.If you need some help coming up with your mantra, then first download my free motivational quotes ebook, The Little Book of Big Motivational Quotes.
- Remember Your Peak Moments. I used to call this being in the zone, but I much prefer the terminology from Find Your Great Work: peak moments. These are moments of triumph and they remind me who I am, what I am about – and why I am chasing my unique goals. :“A peak moment is a time when you felt you were at the top of your game [...] Your Peak Moment connects you with that time when you felt most fulfilled, most stretched, most present[...] a moment of insight where you say: yes this is something to remember, this is a moment of me at my most essential, me at my most authentic and best.”
– Find Your Great Work - Do Less. “Make everything count. Whatever you do or keep in your life, make it worthy of keeping. Make it really count.” - from The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life, page 8. I often feel unmotivated when I feel like I am carrying the world on my shoulders, and because of this completing tasks doesn’t actually make me feel good – it just makes me feel anxious and worry “what’s next?” Simplify. Let go of commitments. By making room in my day for the things I want to do, I am much more motivated to get started on them – and I don’t worry about a large to-do list that’s waiting for me.
- Nip It In The Bud – Don’t Let The Slump Start. Often for me it’s the little things that lead to a motivational slump. It’s skipping one workout to hang out with friends, then two. By the next week, in the back of my mind I’m already rationalizing why today is a bad day for the gym – there is so much momentum working against me that it’s hard to get started again. Don’t fall into that trap – recognize theactivities you do to procrastinate, and nip it in the bud. Take action right away, no matter how small the victory, and use that momentum for further tasks.
- Get Active. I have only empirical evidence to back this up, but I’ve found that when I’m not exercising, my other goals suffer as well. I’m not sure where in the process the magic is, but there is absolutely some relationship between productivity, running, high-energy workout music and a refreshing shower afterwards. While I don’t understand the interplay between all of them, taking a break and running for half an hour can change my perspective and get me motivated to go again. In fact, often while I’m running I get inspired, and am tempted to cut my break short to get back to work.
- Remember This Moment Is Precious – And Only Here For Today. Sometimes when I’m not motivated to do what I know needs to be done, I remind myself that if I waste this opportunity, this one chance, I’ll never get another. My minutes, hours and days come around one time – and it’s up to me to live the life I want, right now.
- Dream. I really enjoyed Jonathan’s book Reclaim Your Dreams, and came away from it with renewed motivation to work hard for some of my true long range dreams. This may just be semantics, but I always feel like the word “dream” is more liberating than “goal.” I enjoy having and day to day focus on my goals – they tend to be concrete, discrete and (for me) more short term. Dreams remind me why I’m focusing on short term goals – you may have a goal of visiting Australia, but you dream of traveling the world.
- Use Daily, Consistent Motivation. Get your free copy of Personal Development 101. You’ll receive constant encouragement and motivational thoughts, as well as a free copy of the Little Book Of Motivational Quotes.
- Remind Yourself. Set your homepage to this motivational start page. You’ll be reminded daily to be motivated and keep moving forward towards your goals.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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Migrant Tragedies Sharpen Calls For Safe Passage : NPR
Migrant Tragedies Sharpen Calls For Safe Passage : NPR:
"They escaped bullets and bombs only to perish before they could ever claim asylum," he said, adding that there had been reports that the vessel had been fired on shortly after departing Zwara, Libya
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Empower Network - How Bad Do You Want To Breathe?? How Bad Do You Want Success? They Should Be The Same !!!
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Empower Network - How Bad Do You Want To Breathe?? How Bad Do You Want Success? They Should Be The Same !!!
There was a young man who wanted to make a lot of money so he went to this guru, right. And he told the guru, “I want to be on the same level you’re on.” So the guru said, “If you want to be on the same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 am.” He was like, “The beach? I said I wanna make money, I don’t wanna swim.” The guru said, “If you wanna make money, I’ll meet you tomorrow, 4 am.”
So the young man got to the beach at 4 am, he's all ready to rock and roll. He got on the suit, he should have wore shorts. The old man grabs his hand and says, “How bad do you want to be successful?” and he says, “Real bad.” He says, “Walk on out into the water.” So he walks out into the water, watch this, when he walks out into the water it goes waist deep. So he’s like, “This guy crazy.” He’s like, “I just want to make money. You got me out here swimming. I didn’t ask to be a lifeguard. I wanna make money.” So he said, “Come out a little further.” Walked out a little further and he was at the shoulder area. So this old man crazy, he making money but he crazy. So he said, “Come on out a little further.” He came out a little further. He was right at his mouth. My man like, “I’m about to go back in. This guy is out of his mind.” The old man said, “I thought you said you wanted to be successful.” He said, “I do.” He said, “Walk a little further.” He did. He came, dropped his head in, held him down, holdin’ him down, my man, he was scratching, he had him held him down. Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up. He said, “I got a question for you. When you were underwater, what did you want to do?” He said, “I wanted to breathe.” He told the guy, he said, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
I don’t know how many of y’all have asthma in here today, but if you have ever had an asthma attack before, you short of breathe, you wheezing… The only thing you trying to do is get some air. You don’t care about no basketball game, you don’t care what’s on TV, you don’t care about nobody calling you, you don’t care about a party . The only thing you care about when you trying to breathe, is trying to get some fresh air. That’s it. And when you can get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you wanna breathe, then you’ll be successful.
And I’m here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party, you don’t want it as much as you want to be cool, most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I’m here to tell you today if you’re going to be successful you’ve got to be willing to give up sleep. You’ve got to be willing to work off of 3 hours of sleep, 2 hours. If you really want to be successful, someday you’re going to have to stay up 3 days in a row. Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful, that’s how bad you’ve got to want it. You’ve got to want to be successful so bad, that you forget to eat. Beyonce said once she was on set doing her thing, three days had gone by and she forgot to eat. Because she was engaged.
When 50 Cent was doing his movie, I did a little research on 50. And 50 said that when he wasn’t doing the movie, he was doing the soundtrack. And they said, “When do you sleep 50?” “Sleep?” He said, “Sleep, is for those people who are broke. I don’t sleep.” He said, “I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.”
Emmitt Smith. There was a commercial, Emmitt Smith had won his first Super Bowl, and he had this commercial where he was lifting weights. When he was lifting, he said, “You know what? I won the Super Bowl, so I can rest now.” He was doing his bench press. So he threw up about 325lbs. and rests for about 2 seconds. Then brings it back down and pushes it a few more times. Did you see that? He had already won a Super Bowl and he said I think I’m going to take a rest, and he rests for how long? A couple of seconds.
Most of you won’t be successful because when you studying and you get tired, you quit. Somebody came out of my office the other day crying. I said, “Hey look, don’t cry to give up, cry to keep going.” Don’t cry to quit. You already in pain, you already hurt, get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed.
Listen to me, I’m here to tell you today, you can come here, you can jump up, you can do flips, you can be excited when we give away money. But listen to me, you will never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do. You won’t be successful until you say I don’t need that money, because I got it in here.
2) Emmitt Smith said, "All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason."
3) The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become!
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle
4) PAIN IS TEMPORARY! It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year. But eventually it will subside and something else will take it's place. If I quit however, it will last forever.
-Eric Thomas
Empower Network - How Bad Do You Want To Breathe?? How Bad Do You Want Success? They Should Be The Same !!!
There was a young man who wanted to make a lot of money so he went to this guru, right. And he told the guru, “I want to be on the same level you’re on.” So the guru said, “If you want to be on the same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 am.” He was like, “The beach? I said I wanna make money, I don’t wanna swim.” The guru said, “If you wanna make money, I’ll meet you tomorrow, 4 am.”
So the young man got to the beach at 4 am, he's all ready to rock and roll. He got on the suit, he should have wore shorts. The old man grabs his hand and says, “How bad do you want to be successful?” and he says, “Real bad.” He says, “Walk on out into the water.” So he walks out into the water, watch this, when he walks out into the water it goes waist deep. So he’s like, “This guy crazy.” He’s like, “I just want to make money. You got me out here swimming. I didn’t ask to be a lifeguard. I wanna make money.” So he said, “Come out a little further.” Walked out a little further and he was at the shoulder area. So this old man crazy, he making money but he crazy. So he said, “Come on out a little further.” He came out a little further. He was right at his mouth. My man like, “I’m about to go back in. This guy is out of his mind.” The old man said, “I thought you said you wanted to be successful.” He said, “I do.” He said, “Walk a little further.” He did. He came, dropped his head in, held him down, holdin’ him down, my man, he was scratching, he had him held him down. Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up. He said, “I got a question for you. When you were underwater, what did you want to do?” He said, “I wanted to breathe.” He told the guy, he said, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
I don’t know how many of y’all have asthma in here today, but if you have ever had an asthma attack before, you short of breathe, you wheezing… The only thing you trying to do is get some air. You don’t care about no basketball game, you don’t care what’s on TV, you don’t care about nobody calling you, you don’t care about a party . The only thing you care about when you trying to breathe, is trying to get some fresh air. That’s it. And when you can get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you wanna breathe, then you’ll be successful.
And I’m here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party, you don’t want it as much as you want to be cool, most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I’m here to tell you today if you’re going to be successful you’ve got to be willing to give up sleep. You’ve got to be willing to work off of 3 hours of sleep, 2 hours. If you really want to be successful, someday you’re going to have to stay up 3 days in a row. Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful, that’s how bad you’ve got to want it. You’ve got to want to be successful so bad, that you forget to eat. Beyonce said once she was on set doing her thing, three days had gone by and she forgot to eat. Because she was engaged.
When 50 Cent was doing his movie, I did a little research on 50. And 50 said that when he wasn’t doing the movie, he was doing the soundtrack. And they said, “When do you sleep 50?” “Sleep?” He said, “Sleep, is for those people who are broke. I don’t sleep.” He said, “I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.”
Emmitt Smith. There was a commercial, Emmitt Smith had won his first Super Bowl, and he had this commercial where he was lifting weights. When he was lifting, he said, “You know what? I won the Super Bowl, so I can rest now.” He was doing his bench press. So he threw up about 325lbs. and rests for about 2 seconds. Then brings it back down and pushes it a few more times. Did you see that? He had already won a Super Bowl and he said I think I’m going to take a rest, and he rests for how long? A couple of seconds.
Most of you won’t be successful because when you studying and you get tired, you quit. Somebody came out of my office the other day crying. I said, “Hey look, don’t cry to give up, cry to keep going.” Don’t cry to quit. You already in pain, you already hurt, get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed.
Listen to me, I’m here to tell you today, you can come here, you can jump up, you can do flips, you can be excited when we give away money. But listen to me, you will never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do. You won’t be successful until you say I don’t need that money, because I got it in here.
2) Emmitt Smith said, "All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason."
3) The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become!
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle
4) PAIN IS TEMPORARY! It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year. But eventually it will subside and something else will take it's place. If I quit however, it will last forever.
-Eric Thomas
Saturday, October 12, 2013
YouTube to MP3 Converter - Fast, Free - ListenToYouTube.com
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The following can extract video from any website:
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
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i7-4960x MATLAB 2013b bench test results
% All the following results are based on Ubuntu Linux Operating system
speed=bench(5) % tested on MATLAB2013b
mean(speed)
i7-4960x @3.6GHz
0.0531 0.0673 0.1488 0.1118 0.2478 0.8358
i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHzmean(speed)
i7-4960x @3.6GHz
0.0531 0.0673 0.1488 0.1118 0.2478 0.8358
0.0480 0.0841 0.1497 0.1097 0.2671 0.1970
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @2.83GHz
0.1079 0.4084 0.1421 0.2434 0.4273 0.7214
cpu48 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6168 @ 800 MHz
0.1943 0.3061 0.2293 1.2310 0.5450 1.0447
Note:
1) The meaning of columns are:
Column 1~5 corresponds to the following 5 row:
LU LAPACK. Floating point, regular memory access.
FFT Fast Fourier Transform. Floating point, irregular memory access.
ODE Ordinary diff. eqn. Data structures and functions.
Sparse Solve sparse system. Sparse linear algebra.
2-D plot(fft(eye)). 2-D line drawing graphics.
3-D MathWorks logo. 3-D animated OpenGL graphics.
2) The hardware configuration of i7-4960x is:
CPU: i7 4960x
GPU: NVIDIA geForce GTX 650 ti 2Gb
RAM: 32G 1600 RAM
GPU: Default
HardDrive: Segate 1T 7200RPM SATA 72MB cache
CD/DVD: Default
Network and USB: Default
OS: Ubuntu 12.10
Wireless: TP-LInk TL-WDN 4800
GPU: NVIDIA geForce GTX 650 ti 2Gb
RAM: 32G 1600 RAM
GPU: Default
HardDrive: Segate 1T 7200RPM SATA 72MB cache
CD/DVD: Default
Network and USB: Default
OS: Ubuntu 12.10
Wireless: TP-LInk TL-WDN 4800
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
US JOBS: Speech Scientist/ AI (APPLE) - FacultyRow
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