This Book Will Motivate You: 100 Ways to Kick-Start Your Life Goals

by Steve Chandler, Mark Goulston (Foreword by)

Overview

“If you put together the best of Anthony Robbins and Wayne Dyer, what you would have would be almost as good as Steve Chandler.” —Dale Dauten, Chicago Tribune, King Features Syndicate

This Book Will Motivate You by master life coach, Steve Chandler, helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life. It features more than 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act—methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. The book also includes techniques and breakthroughs he has created for individual coaching clients.

This Book Will Motivate You will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling your lifelong goals and dreams. This edition also contains mental and spiritual techniques that give readers more immediate access to action and results in their lives. If you’re ready to finally make a change, leave burnout in the dust, and reach your goals, Steve Chandler challenges you to turn your defeatist attitude into energetic, optimistic, enthusiastic accomplishments.

This book was previously published as 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself.

“The perfect book to motivate busy, distracted people who want to change their lives. Every chapter is a friendly, simple, and clear directive suggesting you take action in a way that piques your curiosity and then second, it satisfies it by sharing story after story to support the points Steve is making. You can’t stop by reading just one chapter.” —Mark Goulston, M.D. coauthor, Get Out of Your Own Way

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632652041
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	985,284
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Steve Chandler has trained more than thirty Fortune 500 companies in communication, personal motivation, and leadership. He has been a guest faculty member at the University of Santa Monica, teaching their Soul-Centered Professional Coaching program. Steve has authored more than two dozen books that have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign language editions, including the bestselling 100 Ways to Motivate Others, The Prosperous Coach, and Reinventing Yourself. He is also the founder of the Coaching Prosperity School, which for more than a decade has taught and trained life and business coaches from around the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword xiii

Introduction: Motivation Requires Fire xv

Ways to Motivate Yourself

1 Tell yourself a true lie 1

2 Keep your eyes on the prize 2

3 Learn to sweat in peace 3

4 Get on your deathbed 5

5 Simplify your life 8

6 Look for the lost gold 12

7 Push all your own buttons 13

8 Build a track record 15

9 Welcome the unexpected 17

10 Find your master key 18

11 Put your library on wheels 20

12 Definitely plan your work 22

13 Bounce your thoughts 24

14 Light your lazy dynamite 26

15 Choose the happy few 28

16 Learn to play a role 30

17 Don't just do something … sit there 32

18 Use your brain chemicals 34

19 Leave high school forever 36

20 Learn to lose your cool 38

21 Kill your television 40

22 Break out of your soul cage 41

23 Run your own plays 42

24 Find your inner Einstein 44

25 Run toward your fear 46

26 Create the way you relate 48

27 Try interactive listening 50

28 Embrace your willpower 51

29 Perform your little rituals 53

30 Find a place to come from 55

31 Be your own disciple 57

32 Turn into a word processor 58

33 Program your biocomputer 59

34 Open your present 61

35 Be a good detective 63

36 Make a relation-shift 65

37 Learn to come from behind 66

38 Come to your own rescue 68

39 Find your soul purpose 71

40 Get up on the right side 75

41 Let your whole brain play 76

42 Get your stars out 78

43 Just make everything up 80

44 Put on your game face 81

45 Discover active relaxation 83

46 Make today a masterpiece 84

47 Enjoy all your problems 86

48 Stay hungry 88

49 Remind your mind 90

50 Get down and get small 93

51 Advertise to yourself 95

52 Think outside the box 98

53 Keep thinking, keep thinking 100

54 Put on a good debate 103

55 Make trouble work for you 105

56 Storm your own brain 108

57 Keep changing your voice 110

58 Embrace the new frontier 112

59 Upgrade your old habits 114

80 Paint your masterpiece today 116

61 Swim laps underwater 118

62 Bring on a good coach 120

63 Try to sell your home 124

64 Get your soul to talk 128

65 Promise the moon 128

66 Make somebody's day 130

67 Play the circle game 131

68 Get up a game 134

69 Turn your mother down 137

70 Face the sun 138

71 Travel deep inside 140

72 Go to war 141

73 Use the 5 percent solution 143

74 Do something badly 145

75 Learn visioneering 147

76 Lighten things up 149

77 Serve and grow rich 150

78 Make a list of your life 152

79 Set a specific power goal 154

80 Change yourself first 155

81 Pin your life down 157

82 Take no far a question 159

83 Take the road to somewhere 161

84 Boon a news fast 163

85 Replace worry with action 165

86 Run with the thinkers 168

87 Put more enjoyment in 170

88 Keep walking 172

89 Read more mysteries 174

90 Think your way up 176

91 Exploit your weakness 177

92 Try becoming the problem 179

93 Enlarge your objective 181

94 Give yourself flying lessons 183

95 Hold your vision accountable 185

98 Build your power base 187

97 Connect truth to beauty 188

98 Read yourself a story 190

99 Laugh for no reason 192

100 Walk with love and death 194

101 Just roar! 201

102 Experiment with happiness 202

103 Catch life by the handle 205

104 Leave yourself massages 207

105 Try reinventing yourself 208

106 Choose responding over reacting 209

107 Apply the book you read 210

108 Do what you can do today 213

109 Create a different system! 215

110 Enjoy your resistance training 216

Bibliography 219

Editorial Reviews

The perfect book to motivate busy, distracted people who want to change their lives. Every chapter is a friendly, simple, and clear directive suggesting you take action in a way that piques your curiosity and then second, it satisfies it by sharing story after story to support the points Steve is making. You can’t stop by reading just one chapter.” —Mark Goulston, M.D. coauthor, Get Out of Your Own Way
 

Reviews

The perfect book to motivate busy, distracted people who want to change their lives. Every chapter is a friendly, simple, and clear directive suggesting you take action in a way that piques your curiosity and then second, it satisfies it by sharing story after story to support the points Steve is making. You can’t stop by reading just one chapter.

Mark Goulston

If just one of these more than 100 wonderful ideas ignites you to take that first step towards a new you, it is well worth it.

Marci Shimoff