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

242 Pages·2023·2.398 MB·English

by  Steve Chandler

“ If just one of these more than 100 wonderful ideas ignites you to
take that fi rst step towards a new you, it is well worth it.”
—MARCI SHIMOFF, #1  New York Times  bestselling author, 
Happy for No Reason  and  Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
“
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
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 has spoken to.
These ideas will help you break through the negative barriers and banish
the pessimistic thoughts that prevent you from fulfi lling 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 fi nally make a change, leave burnout in the dust, and reach
your goals, Chandler challenges you to turn your defeatist attitude into
energetic, optimistic, enthusiastic accomplishments.
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 over two dozen books that
have been translated into more than twenty-fi ve 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.
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Foreword by Mark Goulston
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This edition first published in 2023 by Career Press, an imprint of
Red Wheel/Weiser, llc
With offices at:
65 Parker Street, Suite 7
Newburyport, MA 01950
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Copyright © 2012, 2023 by Steve Chandler
Foreword copyright © 2023 by Mark Goulston
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and
retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser,
llc. Reviewers may quote brief passages. Previously published in 2012 as
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself by Career Press, ISBN: 978-1-60163-244-9.
ISBN: 978-1-63265-204-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.
Cover design by Sky Peck Design
Interior by Steve Amarillo/Urban Design LLC
Typeset in Adobe Freight Text and Monotype RBNo2.1
Printed in The United States of America
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To Kathryn Anne Chandler
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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
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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
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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
60 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 126
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 for a question 159
83 Take the road to somewhere 161
84 Go on a news fast 163
85 Replace worry with action 165
86 Run with the thinkers 168
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