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Contents

How To Motivate Yourself-5

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need-8

A Guide to Beating the Fears That Are Holding You Back-14

Task Ninja: Form the Action Habit-18

Top 20 Motivation Hacks-21

The Ultimate Guide to Motivation - How to Achieve Any Goal-27

Progress, Progress, Progress! 5 Tips To Keep You Moving Forward.-37

7 Steps to Turn Your Self-Improvement Desires Into Reality-40

25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Conﬁdence-44

6 Small Things You Can Do When You Lack Discipline-51

16 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You’re in a Slump-53

5 Tips For Motivational Recovery-58

The Magical Power of Focus-60

10 Ways to Beat the “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” Syndrome-64

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30 Incredible Places to Turn When You Need Inspiration-68

How To Deal With Negative Feedback-72

How to Doggedly Pursue Your Dreams in the Face of Naysayers-78

Achieve Your Dreams Despite Pressures of Work and Family-84

Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes-87

How to Actually Execute Your To-do List-89

The Yin And Yang Of Persistence-95

Enduring the Valley to Get to Success-99

How To Relax And Why It’s So Important-103

The Simple Guide To Single-Tasking Success-106

Stop Reading About It and Do It-111

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Introduction

By Leo Babauta

I ’ve long wanted to put together a motivation ebook -- I get emails and comments from readers every day in need of

motivation to reach a goal, to stay focused, to exercise, to be productive, to just get up off their butts and do something.

But I wanted to add something, add value greater than I already offer on Zen Habits.

And so I turned to Eric Hamm of the Motivate Thyself blog, and found the perfect partner for this book.

Eric writes about motivation all the time -- it’s the lifeblood of his blog, and what he lives every day. He knows motivation

as well as I do.

The two of us have accomplished a lot, working for others and working for ourselves. We’ve had plenty of failures, and

through these failures have learned tons about motivation, and about ourselves.

It’s from these failures that we’ve gathered the attitudes and methods that actually work, that have given us the motivation

needed to achieve our goals.

It’s our hope that we’ll pass on some of this practical advice to you, and that you’ll go on to use it to achieve great things

yourself. Even if you’ve already achieved great things, at the very least I know this ebook will serve as a basic reminder and

give you a little shove when you need it.

I recommend using this ebook like this: read it in little bits, and put them into action. And when you need a bit of motiva-

tion, pull it up and read some more, and then get your butt into action again.

Good luck, my friends, and may all your dreams become reality!

- Leo

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How To Motivate Yourself

By Eric Hamm

H ow to motivate yourself?” is a question that only YOU know the

answer to. Hidden deep inside all of us is both the desire to do great

things and the knowledge to strive for them. But for many of us, these are

things that are buried beyond our normal understanding of ourselves. So

if you want to know how to motivate yourself, you have to first learn a bit

more ABOUT yourself.

First: What IS motivation?

Think about a car, sitting on a flat, paved road. The engine’s not running

and the break is not engaged. Your job is to push the car past a certain point. So you lean into it and start pushing with

all your might. At first it’s barely budging, but then starts creeping ahead. You dig deep and give it all you’ve got. The

tires start to make their way around and the car starts moving forward. Now your energy is beginning to transfer from

brute force to a kind of flow. The further you push the car, the easier it gets as momentum starts to make its way into the

scenario. The motivation was the act of breaking the barrier between frozen and forward motion. Once that took place,

momentum was born and your energy enhanced. So if you want to know how to motivate yourself, you’ll need to decipher

your own personal tricks for breaking that barrier.

Second: Know what TRULY turns you on!

When I was a car salesman, my manager always tried to motivate us with money. I remember one specific instance when

I had been working really hard and was looking forward to the following day as it was my day off. There was a big sale

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