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need motivation? By Nancy C. Lewine, PhD ©2007 All Rights Reserved I do. I need it all the time. If you are like me, you've got too much to do! An overflowing TO DO list itemizing what you have to do and a head full of all the things you want to do compete for your time and energy. We're all suffering from mild "ADD" these days! To survive we must master the art of focusing and self-motivation. I've had to do more than my fair share of self-motivation in my life. For whatever reason, I've only had a select few who "motivated" me to produce. Most of that came in the form of yelling, complaining, and aggravation. None were very effective. Having someone else poke, prod, cajole, and criticize me surely did nothing to tap my best effort. Interestingly, the converse, incentive motivation was also ineffective! Certain ones worked initially, or short-term, but as the motivation gurus, Maslow and Herzberg theorized, that formula also fails to release our full human potential effectively. more. . . The Atalanta Syndrome™ By Nancy C. Lewine, PhD Atalanta (at-uh-LAN-tuh) Abandoned at birth by a father who wanted a son, Atalanta became a great heroine and one of the Argonauts. Unwilling to marry, she finally consented to wed any man who could beat her at a foot race. Such was her fleetness that she would have remained happily single, but that the Goddess of Love gave one of her suitors golden apples to scatter on the race course. These were magical, and Atalanta could not resist them. Stooping to gather them in, she lost the contest to her destined husband. Remember Atalanta? She sabotaged her own chances of winning the race under the spell of Venus’ apples. Are you Atalanta, irresistibly picking up those apples on your life path which only serves to slow you down? If so, you are your own enemy, as marsupial comic strip star Pogo proclaims, “We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Have you ever sabotaged your own success? Many of you may adamantly respond, “NO!” You have worked hard, put in long hours, gone for the gold, and persevered through the stress, right? You have done all you could do. Me, too! And, I have also committed self-sabotage. Surprised? more. . .
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