Hi everyone!
I just wanted to share something I found with everyone here. It is a book called "The Motivated Mind" by Jason Michael Gracia. I bought it through his website. You can buy electronic copies or a paper one. I bought the electronic version and printed a chapter at a time.
Anyways, I cannot say enough good things about this book!! He starts off by defining motivation, what it is and isn't. Then he talks about what motivates people (the pleasure/pain principle). Then he goes into written exercises and stuff (I highly recommend actually doing the exercises) to help you discover what you want to do (if you don't already know) and then the rest of the book is about reaching those goals.
This book as truely changed my life!!! I am doing things now that I have been putting off for years. I'm now currently writing a childrens book with a character I developed in 1999 but never did anything with. Now I'm so fired up about it I can't get it done fast enough!
A couple of chapters also go into "staying" motivated as well. I think we know how tough that is for us!
I've also started actually getting my finances organized and in order including actually budgeting!
And I want to say here that I have no affiliation with this guy at all, I'm not trying to sell something. But I just felt so strongly about this book I had to share it here. After all, we sure now how motivation is a 4-letter word to us ADDers!
If you have any questions about the book, feel free to ask me. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to ask publicly.
The web address is: http://www.motivation123.com
He also has free articles and a newsletter you can sign up for.
Take care!
. . .Kim
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