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July 16, 2013
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results [Book]
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (Austin, TX: Bard Press, 2013)
Ever feel overwhelmed by having too much to do? In The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results , Gary Keller chairman of the board and cofounder of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., and New York Times bestselling author, starts off by dispelling five lies people believe about productivity. He then explains how to focus on the one that that if done, makes everything else easier or unnecessary.
His approach reduces overwhelm while increasing productivity. This book would be a great addition to your summer reading list!
July 15, 2013
How to Start a Blog in 4 Easy Steps
In this short video, I tell you my four simple steps to starting a blog. It may sounds basic, but creating quality content and getting it into the hands of your readers is the foundation for building a successful platform. If you don’t have this, nothing else matters.
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Whether you are starting your first blog, or have been at it for a while, here are four essential steps you can’t afford to miss:
Select a Theme for Your Content
Select a Blog Platform
Write Your First Post
Establish a Blogging Frequency
In the video, I explain each step in more detail and give you simple, easy-to-follow action items to get started (or refine your approach) today. So what are you waiting for?
Coming Up This Month at Platform University
At the end of this video, Megan Hyatt Miller gives you a preview of the practical and inspiring content we have coming up at Platform University in August.
In our Master Class, I interview my personal WordPress developer and partner in the Get Noticed theme, Andrew Buckman, about the Ten Mistakes You Are Making with Your Website and How to Fix Them. You won’t believe how easy it is to take your home base to the next level with Andrew’s simple suggestions.
In our Backstage Pass, I take you on the road with me and reveal my time-tested packing secrets that keep me organized and prepared to speak when I travel, including all of my favorite products, tools and tips.
In our Member Makeover, Megan Hyatt Miller, Dean of Platform University and I review the platform of one of our members. We share with him our top ten recommendations for improving his platform and extending his reach.
Finally, I will host our members-only Live Q&A Conference Call at the end of the month. This month’s theme is “How to Build a Home Base that Gets You Noticed.” Here, our members are invited to ask me their most important home base questions and hear my personal, one-on-one answers.
If you’re not a member of Platform University yet, and would like access to content like this, check us out.
If you are frustrated that your platform isn’t growing fast enough or are overwhelmed by the options with social media, monetization, etc., I created Platform University just for you. I will personally show you how to cut through the clutter and implement the strategies that really work so you can go further, faster.
Question: To those who have already started a blog—if you had it to do all over again, what would you do differently? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
July 12, 2013
How to Increase Your Income by Letting Customers Have it Their Way
Remember the successful hamburger campaign that promised you could “have it your way”? If you want no mustard, extra ketchup and two lettuce leaves, just voice your desires.
Consumers today are used to getting it “their way.” Hamburgers with extra pickles, radio with no commercials, an individual chapter in a book or a pair of socks that purposely do not match.
But I continue to encounter coaches, speakers, and writers with a one-size-fits-all method of delivery for their message. “Yes sir, we’ve got a hamburger with one pickle and one leaf of lettuce.” If you want something else we can’t help you.
For example, a coach requires a client to drive to his office. An author holds her new book close to her chest and says, “Give me $20 and I’ll let you see what’s in here.” Or a speaker cringes in fear, knowing she is booked for only one event next month.
When I started offering my weekly radio show via iTunes, our listening audience exploded to over one hundred times my previous numbers. Moving from training coaches one-by-one to hosting three annual events of forty coaches each year increased our impact, and profitability increased exponentially.
Here are some ideas for expanding your income. Let’s start with a scenario. Let’s assume you’re a speaker with a fee of $2,500 per speech. With the expectation of twenty bookings this year you’re projecting income of $50,000. You love your topic and are passionate about sharing your message. But you really want to make $150,000. Can you arbitrarily triple your fee to $7,500 or just “decide” to be booked 60 times? No, that may be challenging. But are there other ways to leverage presenting your message? Absolutely.
Product Sales: $52,000
What if you wrote a small eBook on your message? In response to inquiries about my own mastermind group I recently wrote Creating Your Own Mastermind Group. A young entrepreneur read the 44-page ebook and wrote a blog about his experience. That triggered 2,400 purchases in three days.
If you had an ebook that sold for $17 and you sold only one thousand in the course of a year, you would add $17,000 to your income. Price it at $29.94, as with Writing a Winning Book Proposal, and you only have to sell 425 units.
Could you record a thirty-minute overview of your unique approach to solving a problem? Add 414 of those at $37 for another $15,300.
I love instructional manuale—those clunky three-ring binders that have some content and perhaps two audio CDs. We’ve sold thousands of products like Write to the Bank in this form at $197 each. With only 100 of these a year you’ll see another $19,700. Add a little more content like Michael Hyatt’s Get Published and make it $297. Get creative and see the possibilities.
Add the three I’ve described and you’ve got a cool $52,000 in product sales, without a New York Times bestseller or numbers that are out of reach for even a beginning speaker.
Live Events: $12,000
Could you invite people to an informative and fun live event? If you hosted two events a year where you had twenty participants paying $300 each, you’d add $12,000 to the bottom line. We recently did a teleseminar where we charged only $1.00 but had 4,768 people sign up. Providers like InstantTeleseminar have taken the complexity out of being able to pick up the phone and start talking to your audience.
Attend events like Launch or Innovate to learn and develop your own model.
Affiliate and Referral Commissions: $6,000
You have a specific message. Let’s say you speak on “Effective Decision Making in 20 Minutes.” You can recommend the new book Decisive or the classic Decision Making and the Will of God through Amazon’s affiliate program and immediately start getting affiliate commissions on every sale.
For years I have attended major conferences by recommending those same conferences to my audience, where I receive affiliate commissions for each referred attendee. Attending events like Brendon Burchard’s Expert Academy then becomes not only a great learning experience but an income generator as well. Mix and match, but you can put in motion a system that would generate at least $500 per month in affiliate and referral income.
Coaching: $12,000
After speaking, you find people asking to meet with you personally to work on their decision-making skills. You say, “Sure, which of these three options would work best for you?” and you show them your $2,500, $1,500, and $250 coaching packages. You have plenty of flexibility to create coaching options that fit your style and comfort level. From these you average only one new client per month but add $1,000 to your income.
Membership Fees: $18,000
What if your specialty is growing organic vegetables? Do you think others with this same interest would like to have a place to be inspired and share ideas? What if you gave them a place to do just that for a monthly membership fee of $10 and found only 150 eager participants? That’s $1,500 a month or $18,000 a year. Trust me, it’s being done with thousands of simple affinity groups.
The couple with HerbMentor has 3,400 members who enjoy sharing together at $10 a month. That’s not $18,000 a year, it’s $408,000!
Or you could help “get your art seen and sell it” with a fun place like WorkYourArt. The process for setting up a membership site is probably not as complicated as you may think.
Consider this simple model:
In this graphic, I have writing as the central focus. As an author that has worked well for me. But rather than wringing my hands waiting for significant revenue to come from fancy publishing house advances and royalties, I simply see my writing as the fuel to entice readers to these other more profitable areas of my business.
You have a message. See yourself as a rich resource of content for that message in a variety of forms, not as the deliverer of a one-pickle hamburger.
Question: Have you been hiding the condiments in the back pantry? Which of the above options do you think you’ll try? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
July 11, 2013
Ten Sentences [Quote]
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
July 10, 2013
Encore Episode: How to Overcome the Resistance [Podcast]
Steven Pressfield coined this phrase to describe that invisible, destructive force that opposes you any time you try to start a new project or make an improvement in any area of your life.
I spoke on this topic at the recent Platform Conference, and the response was tremendous. So I wanted to share some practical counter-measures for dealing with the Resistance in your own life and work.
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In order to deal with the Resistance, you have to first understand what it is. It has four attributes.Attribute #1: It is invisible.
Attribute #2: It is internal.
Attribute #3: It is insidious.
Attribute #4: It is infallible.
But what can you do about it?
You can only defeat the Resistance by understanding its three primary strategies and applying appropriate countermeasures.
Strategy #1: Fear. The typical response to this strategy is procrastination.The countermeasure is to START.
Strategy #2: Uncertainty. The typical response is distraction.The countermeasure is to FOCUS.
Strategy #3: Doubt. This usually occurs at the end of a project, and the typical response is to quit and leave the work unfinished.The countermeasure is to FINISH.
Defeating the Resistance is essential to your growth, but more importantly it is essential to your transformation. Who you are becoming is more important than what you are doing.
Listener Questions
Jeff Sanders asked, “How do you keep your own creativity from becoming another form of the Resistance?”
Jen McDonough asked, “What kinds of outside things do you bring into your life to help fight the resistance?
Joanna Holman asked, “How do you know what you are facing is Resistance rather than a sign that what you are doing is not the right thing for you or you are doing too much and need to back off?”
Marc Schelske asked, “What has helped you to stop the cycle of perfectionism and get the product out the door?”
Sue Detweiler asked, “What are ways that we personally create Resistance and sabotage our own progress?”
Travis Dommert asked, “How does the Resistance work in the presence of a group?”
Special Announcements
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This is not as complicated as it sounds. In fact, I have put together a step-by-step screencast on exactly how to do it. You don’t need any technical knowledge. I walk you through the entire process in exactly 20 minutes.
The Launch Conference for this fall is filling up fast. In case you don’t know, this is the conference for professional speakers or those who want to be. It’s all about the business of public speaking.
Specifically, we teach you a powerful, four-part framework designed to help you:
Discover your assets.
Design your products.
Develop your market.
Determine your value.
This is the conference that launched me into my professional speaking career. We will be holding the conference on September 16–19, 2013 in beautiful Vail, Colorado.
This is one conference that will pay for itself almost immediately. I paid for mine in the first month after I attended.
Episode Resources
In this episode I mentioned several resources, including:
Book: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Book: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
Book: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Book: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
Course: Get Published
Membership: Platform University
Podcast: Episode 28, “Reengineer Your Morning Ritual”
Software: Evernote
Quote: W.H. Murray on Commitment
Show Transcript
You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here, courtesy of Ginger Schell, a professional transcriptionist, who handles all my transcription needs.
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Question: How has the Resistance shown up in your life? What have you learned about it? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
July 9, 2013
Benefits or Features? [Video]
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A lot of marketers make the mistake of pointing out the features of their products or services instead of focusing on the benefits. This video by Samsung cleverly illustrates, in a way that most any parent can relate to, the benefits of one of the features of the Galaxy S4.
Quick Snooze [Video]
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A lot of marketers make the mistake of pointing out the features of their products or services instead of focusing on the benefits. This video by Samsung cleverly illustrates, in a way that most any parent can relate to, the benefits of one of the features of the Galaxy S4.
July 8, 2013
How to Successfully Self-Publish a Kindle eBook
I am on sabbatical for the next few weeks. While I am gone, I have asked some of my favorite bloggers to stand in for me. This is a guest post from Jeff Goins. He is the author of Wrecked and his forthcoming memoir, The In-Between. You can follow Jeff on Twitter or find out more about him here.
If you want to get noticed in the digital age, waiting for someone to choose you is the worst strategy. You have everything you need to start sharing your message today—fingers, keyboard, and the Internet.
Even if they don’t consider themselves writers, most people dream of writing a book. And there’s never been a better time to do so. The stigma of self-publishing is fading away, replaced by countless success stories from first-time authors making a name for themselves.
How are they doing it? Simple. By publishing eBooks on Amazon.com.
Why Amazon?
Forget what you think you know about Amazon. It’s much more than an online shopping cart or web store. There’s a reason guys like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin have published exclusively to Amazon. It has a lot going for it:
Amazon is largest paid search engine in the world. People don’t Google things with their credit cards out, ready to buy, like they do with Amazon.
Amazon dominates the book market.
Amazon’s review system is an authority metric (even if someone plans to buy elsewhere).
Amazon is a marketing machine. Once you start selling a certain number of copies, it refers your book to others who have never heard of you.
Amazon makes it easy. You can publish elsewhere, but few places get your book online and ready in a matter of hours. When you publish first (and maybe exclusively) to Amazon, you concentrate your sales in a single place and can climb the best sellers lists faster.
Yes, you can get published, see your message spread, and make good money using nothing more than a keyboard and your brain. Here’s how:
Step 1: Write
When publishing an e-book, the first step is, of course, to write it. Think in terms of three drafts:
The “vomit draft.” This is just what it sounds like—you’re throwing up on the blank page. Certainly not the most warming image, but you get the idea. Here, you will write the Table of Contents, sketch out each chapter, and put down all your ideas, scenes, and stories. Don’t make it pretty; just make it.
The review draft. This is where you spend some time developing what you want to say and how. At this point, you should share the work with a few close friends for feedback.
The editorial draft. This is where you get help from a professional or close friend who knows not only grammar, but story structure and elements of style.
Each draft may, in fact, have multiple versions and iterations. But this three-step approach will help you get the work finished without endlessly stalling.
Step 2: Format and Design
Once you’ve written a book you’re proud of, here’s what to do next:
Format it for Kindle. You can try this yourself using a program called Calibre, or you can just pay someone to do it—which I recommend. If this is your life’s work, it’s worth paying a few hundred dollars to get it done right.
Design the cover. Please don’t skimp on this or have your cousin Vinny who just discovered PhotoShop “take a whack at it.” If you’re on a budget, check out 99 Designs or Crowdspring, both affordable crowd-sourcing services. Ask for an image that is a JPEG file and at least 2500 pixels on the longest side with a height/weight ratio of 1.6 (what Amazon recommends in their publishing guidelines).
Double check everything and have friends proofread for errors.
This is an important step, so don’t blaze through it. If you need more guidance, check out TheBookDesigner.com.
Step 3: Publish
How do you actually make your book available for sale on Amazon.com? This is, perhaps, the part that intimidates most people. And the truth is it shouldn’t. All it takes is twelve simple steps:
Go to kdp.amazon.com and sign in (you’ll need an Amazon account).
Register your tax info for royalties.
Click “Bookshelf” and then “Add new title.”
Fill out the form, including book title, description, and keywords you want people to search to find your book.
Upload the cover file (JPEG format).
Upload the book file.
Test your book with Amazon’s online viewer to make sure it looks right.
Click “Save and continue” and advance to the “Rights and Pricing” page.
Choose “Worldwide Rights.”
Choose a 70% royalty rate and select your price, letting the international prices adjust based on the US price. Most e-books are priced $2.99-9.99 (this is what I recommend to maximize your royalty rate).
Click Save and Publish.
Amazon will email you when the book is ready, which may take 24–48 hours but often happens much more quickly.
Step 4: Promote
Now, you’re ready to tell the world about your book. But before you do that, you need some reviews. Reviews are important, because they’re your “social proof” that will legitimize your work to new readers.
Before the book’s release, send the book to friends, family, and followers online who would be willing to leave a review. If you don’t know anyone who would be willing to do that, check out StoryCartel.com, a platform that helps authors get free, ethical reviews.
Once the book is published, remind your early readers to leave reviews. Expect 25-50% of those who promised, to actually comply. And they don’t all have to be 5-star reviews. In fact, having a few honest critiques of your work will give it a greater authority than a bunch of superficial praise.
People can leave reviews on Amazon only a few days before the book is published. So one way to get around this is to publish your book a week before you tell anyone about it. That way, you can build up a good amount of early reviews, which help sell the book to new readers. When it “officially” releases, you can then direct people to the page where they will see some glowing reviews of your work.
Step 5: Launch
After you get some reviews, it’s time to launch your e-book. Every book launch should be unique, but here are a few things that work every time:
Send an email to your list of friends, family, and/or blog subscribers, announcing the release of your book.
Offer an incentive for those who buy the book. This can be a time-sensitive offer or ongoing opportunity. Andy Traub, who made over $20,000 in 90 days with an eBook, gave away the audiobook, 30-day email course, and exclusive membership to an online community with his book. Make it a no-brainer that people can’t pass up.
Promote the book via word-of-mouth and social media. Clicktotweet.com is a great resource for hand-crafting messages that people can easily share. Another effective strategy is to use a launch team of volunteers to help you spread the word.
Share your e-book with online forums and book directories. Kimanzi Constable, who sold over 80,000 copies of his books, said this was a key strategy.
As the book begins to sell, tell people about it. This is called “social proof” and will create a snowball effect that can help you sell even more.
Give the book away. Brandon Clements, who struggled to sell more than a few hundred copies of his novel in a year, decided to give away the e-book version. And in a week, over 60,000 people downloaded it. The next week, he sold another 2,000 copies.
Books can spread pretty fast when everything is digital: the product, the promotion, the distribution. In other words, if you ever wanted to get a message in front of a lot of people, there’s never been a better time.
The days of waiting years to be picked and published are over. So what are you waiting for? (For more help on self-publishing for Kindle, check out the Kindle Publishing Guide, which is free this week exclusively for Michael Hyatt readers.)
Question: What’s one question or tip you have about self-publishing? Click here to leave a comment.
July 6, 2013
Wanted: Life Plan Examples for My New Book
My next book will be The Life Plan Manifesto (working title), co-authored with my good friend, Daniel Harkavy. I am currently in the Colorado Rockies writing my part. I don’t think I have ever been this excited about a book project.
If you are a subscriber to my blog, you are no doubt familiar with my ebook, Creating Your Personal Life Plan. For the last few years, I have given it away as an incentive for subscribing to my blog. So far, it has been downloaded 238,151 times.
I don’t know how many people have followed through in actually writing a life plan, but I assume thousands, if not tens of thousands. If you are one of them, Daniel and I need your help.
What We Need
In one of the appendices, we want to include four sample life plans, written by people from different walks of life. Nothing is more instructive than seeing real examples written by real people.
We’d also like to create a “Gallery of Life Plans” on a new website we are creating. We want to tag these, so that people can search for those written by people in similar circumstances to their own.
If life planning has been helpful to you, this is your opportunity to inspire thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of people with your example.
What You Need to Do
If you are willing to help, please take these four simple steps.
Use the template provided in my original ebook. Here’s a blank Microsoft Word template to get you started. Or, if you prefer, an iWork Pages template.
Send your life plan to us via email. To make it simple, just click here. You can either attach a Word, Pages, or PDF document—it doesn’t matter.
Warning: Please don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or even formatting. None of this matters. The important thing is the substance not the form. We will do a little clean-up on our end, id necessary. Don’t worry about getting it perfect.
Tell us your life circumstances. Be brief. We only need a sentence or two, but we want to be able to tag these appropriately. Please include your gender, current job, marital status, and number and ages of children. For example:
“Male. Mid-level executive with a medium-sized manufacturing company. Divorced. Two kids, ages 12 and 10.”
“Female. Stay at home mom. Married. Three children, ages 14, 12, and 9.”
“Male. Small business owner in the restaurant industry. Divorced and remarried. Four children (combined), ages 21, 19, 15, and 12.”
“Male. College student. Single. No children.”
“Female. CEO of large publishing company. Single. No children.”
Give us permission to use your life plan. We will only use your first name or, if you prefer, an alias (i.e., a fake first name). In the body of the email write, “You have my permission to use it in your new book or on your website.”
What’s In It for You
You’re probably the kind of person who is happy to help with no expectation of return, but Daniel and I want to make it worth your while. Here’s what you will receive if you participate.
A Sense of Contribution. This is an opportunity for you to impact the lives of other people. Your life plan could be the very thing that makes someone else say, “I can do this!” This could literally be the turning point in their life.
An Advanced Readers Copy (ARC). If we use your life plan in the book or the website, we will send you an autographed ARC of the book when it is ready later this year—several months before it is available to the public.
Your Name in the Book. We will include your name in the book’s official Acknowledgments. We will say something generic like, “Thanks to [list of people] for their contribution to this book. You inspired us with your generosity.”
A Spot on the Launch Team. When we get ready to publish the book, we plan to recruit people to help us. When I launched my book, Platform, 786 people applied to be part of the launch team. I only picked one hundred. In exchange for their help, I gave them several bonuses. You don’t have to serve on the The Life Plan Manifesto launch team, but we’ll reserve a spot should you want it.
Finally, to receive these items, we need to receive your life plan by July 31, 2013. Daniel and I can’t wait to review what you have created!
Question: Have you written a life plan? If so, how has it impacted your life? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
July 5, 2013
Are You Doing It Because You Love It Or for the Reward That Follows?
I am on sabbatical for the next few weeks. While I am gone, I have asked some of my favorite bloggers to stand in for me. This is a guest post by Lucille Zimmerman. She is a licensed professional counselor and the author of Renewed: Finding Your Inner Happy in an Overwhelmed World . You can read her blog and follow her on Twitter.
Psychologists believe there are two reasons people choose their behavior: They are motivated intrinsically or extrinsically.
Intrinsic Motivation: This means a person chooses a behavior simply because of interest or enjoyment. The act of doing the behavior is itself the reward. One researcher defined intrinsic motivation in terms of what people will do without external inducement.
When you do behaviors because of intrinsic motivation, you feel a sense of accomplishment and achievement. For me that would be why I write, research, exercise, and shoot photographs.
Extrinsic Motivation: This means you do something because of factors outside yourself. For instance, you want your parent’s approval, a trophy, or a treat. Or perhaps you want to avoid the disapproval of others. The reason for the behavior comes not from the love of the activity, but from the reward that follows the activity.
Dr. Phil says,
If you are always rewarding your child with material things, he/she will never learn how to motivate themselves with internal rewards like pride. They also will never learn to value things because there are so many things and nothing is special.”
My daughter and I were in the car having a discussion about this topic. Which motivation is better? Sometimes you have to use extrinsic motivation to get someone to try a behavior. And sometimes extrinsic rewards can be helpful for achieving a goal. For instance, when my son-in-law passed his CPA exam, he was given a big financial bonus. That bonus is what kept him pushing through the hard times.
Yet sometimes, extrinsic motivation can actually dampen a person’s interest in a behavior. My friend’s son, Ry, is an incredible pianist. He’s a young child who is a virtual Beethoven. He is intrinsically motivated by playing the piano. In fact, his whole body lights up when he has the opportunity to play. If my friend began offering him $10 to practice, it would de-motivate him.
Which leads me to a discussion of Self-Determination Theory. The premise behind this theory is that people have three innate needs:
The need to feel competent.
The need to feel related (connected with others).
The need to feel autonomous.
The developers of this theory, Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, say that when people feel competent, related, and autonomous (or “self-determined”) they will be intrinsically motivated and seek what interests them.
That meshes with my belief: Being intrinsically motivated correlates with maturity, and having a strong sense of self. No longer are you doing a behavior for the crowd’s applause, a parent’s approval, or society’s trophies. You are doing something because it brings you great joy.
I believe many adults are unhappy because they are doing behaviors because of extrinsic motivation. I wrote about this in my book:
Did you know that doing what you love and doing a lot of it is a secret to happiness? Bestselling author and researcher Marcus Buckingham was surprised with research he did at Gallup that showed that women’s happiness had plummeted over the last forty years—the exact opposite of men” (See Find Your Strongest Life).
He devoted himself to figuring out what made the happiest women happy. He found that the happiest women tended to focus on the few areas where they excelled. If a woman loved marathons, she didn’t waste her time on home decorating. If she enjoyed studying rocket-science, she didn’t focus on entertaining friends. You get the idea.
Not only did she do what she loved, she did something Buckingham calls “catch and cradle;” she noticed herself doing what she loved. For instance, when I’m with my three writing critique partners, sometimes I sit back in my seat, sipping tea, and really pay attention to how much I enjoy writing and being with my writing friends.
Sometimes I even take a picture of the magic moment and post it as my status on Facebook. Whether your snapshot is real or tucked away in your memory, taking an occasion to savor what you enjoy is a vital step in self-care.
So, what about you?
Question: Are you mostly motivated by the joy and love of an activity, or by the external rewards which come from doing it? When has intrinsic or extrinsic motivation hindered or helped you? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
