Steve;
I have to disagree with you. Personal Development literature & media may help a person who needs advice to find the right task for them to do. My feeling is that situation is a small percentage of the situations out there. My opinion is that the bulk of the situations are that people know what the right thing to do is, but they find themselves staring it in the face, not feeling like doing it at a given moment.
Instead of moving on and doing it, they feel that there is something wrong if they don't feel highly motivated every single time they "should" do something. They then go from book to book, cd to cd looking for magic tricks to make doing something feel like fun (at least non-difficult ) all of the time.
They are looking for an anti-avoidance pill.
I don't think such a thing can exist given human nature.
The closest thing to it is action.
Most people wait for wind in their sails. I think that model is inverted. I think doing MAKES motivation. Action blows wind into sales. Action is the pill.
Trouble is, when people are on a couch, scared to approach someone, scared to take a challenge they have to provide the pilot light for that process.
No system will ever take that need away.
Doing something when you don't feel like it.
Last edited by Cron; 07-08-2008 at 08:46 PM.
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