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How happy have you decided to be?

February 19, 2011 by kNOELedge 0 Comments

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” This sounds as if it could be an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) expression but it’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln. I guess much is not new, it’s just repackaged! Still a great quote.

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Motivation, Self awareness
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Challenge v Skill

Being in the zone

January 26, 2010 by kNOELedge 1 Comment

Flow is that feeling you get when you are using every last part of your energy, abilities, skills, and it is all coming together. That state we have all, hopefully, experienced at least occasionally. The concept was first developed by Hungarian American Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Pron. Chick-sent me high) Csikszentmihalyi describes seven features that characterise flow Completely involved in what one [...]

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Motivation, Self awareness
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Fully functioning person

January 21, 2010 by kNOELedge 0 Comments

Found this on Wikipedia, I was looking for something quite different. Developed by Carl Rogers, and American psychologist, he describes what he terms the Fully Functioning Person: A growing openness to experience. An increasingly existential lifestyle – living each moment fully, with excitement, daring, adaptability, tolerance, spontaneity, and a lack of rigidity and suggests a foundation of [...]

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Self awareness
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Lessons in motivation ca. 1570

September 3, 2009 by kNOELedge 0 Comments

Speaking of Ascham, reminded me something that has long been a gripe of mine. Why is it that so many seem to think that fear is the best way to motivate? I read recently that research into the behaviour of managers, shows that one third are, “Too afraid to be off ill”. Apart from being [...]

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