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100 W
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otivate ourself
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hird dition
Change Your Life Forever
By Steve Chandler
The Career Press, Inc.
Pompton Plains, NJ
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Steve, 1944-
100 ways to motivate yourself : change your life foever / by Steve Chandler.
-- 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60163-244-9 -- ISBN 978-1-60163-554-9 (ebook)
1. Motivation (Psychology) 2. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title. II.
Title: One hundred ways to mo-tivate yourself.
BF503.C48 2013
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To Kathryn Anne Chandler
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Acknowledgments
To Lindsay Brady, for the ongoing percep tion of success; to
Stephanie Chandler, for tirelessly working the cosmos; to Kathy,
for more than I can say; to Jim Brannigan, for the representa-
tion; to Fred Knipe, for the music on New Year’s Eve; to Ron
Fry, for Career Press; to Nathaniel Branden, for the psychology;
to Colin Wils on, for the philosophy; to Arnold Schwarzenegger,
for a day to remember; to Rett Nichols, for the tension plan; to
Graham Walsh, for the Tavern on the Green; to Terry Hill, for
the century’s first real mystery novel; to Cindy Chandler, for
the salvation; to Ed and Jeanne, for the Wrigley Mansion; to
John Shade, for the fire; to Scott Richardson, for the ideas; to
Ann Coulter, for the wake-up calls; to Steven Forbes Hardison,
for coaching and friendship beyond the earthly norm; and to
Dr. Deepak Chopra, for unconcealing the creative intelligence
that holds us all together.
And to the memory of Art Hill: without whom, no life, no
nothin’.
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Contents
Introduction: Motivation Requires Fire ..........................11
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
1. Get on your deathbed ....................................................15
2. Stay hungry ...................................................................17
3. Tell yourself a true lie .....................................................19
4. Keep your eyes on the prize ...........................................20
5. Learn to sweat in peace ..................................................21
6. Simplify your life ...........................................................23
7. Look for the lost gold ....................................................27
8. Push all your own buttons .............................................28
9. Build a track record ........................................................29
10. Welcome the unexpected ...............................................31
11. Find your master key .....................................................31
12. Put your library on wheels .............................................33
13. Definitely plan your work ..............................................35
14. Bounce your thoughts ....................................................37
15. Light your lazy dynamite ...............................................38
16. Choose the happy few ...................................................39
17. Learn to play a role ........................................................41
18. Don’t just do something…sit there ................................42
19. Use your brain chemicals ...............................................44
20. Leave high school forever ..............................................45
21. Learn to lose your cool ..................................................47
22. Kill your television .........................................................49
23. Break out of your soul cage ...........................................50
24. Run your own plays .......................................................51
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25. Find your inner Einstein ...............................................52
26. Run toward your fear .....................................................54
27. Create the way you relate ...............................................56
28. Try interactive listening .................................................58
29. Embrace your willpower ................................................59
30. Perform your little rituals ...............................................60
31. Find a place to come from .............................................62
32. Be your own disciple ......................................................63
33. Turn into a word processor ............................................64
34. Program your biocomputer ............................................65
35. Open your present .........................................................66
36. Be a good detective ........................................................67
37. Make a relation-shift .....................................................69
38. Learn to come from behind ...........................................70
39. Come to your own rescue ..............................................72
40. Find your soul purpose ..................................................75
41. Get up on the right side .................................................80
42. Let your whole brain play ..............................................81
43. Get your stars out ..........................................................83
44. Just make everything up ................................................84
45. Put on your game face ...................................................85
46. Discover active relaxation ..............................................87
47. Make today a masterpiece .............................................88
48. Enjoy all your problems .................................................89
49. Remind your mind ........................................................91
50. Get down and get small .................................................94
51. Advertise to yourself ......................................................96
52. Think outside the box .....................................................99
53. Keep thinking, keep thinking ......................................101
54. Put on a good debate ...................................................104
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55. Make trouble work for you ..........................................106
56. Storm your own brain ..................................................110
57. Keep changing your voice ............................................112
58. Embrace the new frontier ............................................113
59. Upgrade your old habits ...............................................115
60. Paint your masterpiece today .......................................117
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 .......................................................127
66. Make somebody’s day ..................................................128
67. Play the circle game .....................................................129
68. Get up a game .............................................................132
69. Turn your mother down ...............................................135
70. Face the sun ................................................................136
71. Travel deep inside ........................................................137
72. Go to war ....................................................................138
73. Use the 5 percent solution ...........................................140
74. Do something badly ....................................................142
75. Learn visioneering .......................................................144
76. Lighten things up ........................................................146
77. Serve and grow rich .....................................................147
78. Make a list of your life .................................................149
79. Set a specific power goal ..............................................151
80. Change yourself first ....................................................152
81. Pin your life down ........................................................153
82. Take no for a question ..................................................155
83. Take the road to somewhere ........................................157
84. Go on a news fast ........................................................158
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85. Replace worry with action ...........................................160
86. Run with the thinkers ..................................................163
87. Put more enjoyment in ................................................164
88. Keep walking ...............................................................166
89. Read more mysteries ...................................................168
90. Think your way up .......................................................170
91. Exploit your weakness .................................................171
92. Try becoming the problem ...........................................172
93. Enlarge your objective .................................................174
94. Give yourself flying lessons ..........................................176
95. Hold your vision accountable ......................................178
96. Build your power base .................................................180
97. Connect truth to beauty ...............................................181
98. Read yourself a story ....................................................183
99. Laugh for no reason .....................................................184
100. Walk with love and death ............................................185
101. Just roar! ......................................................................193
102. Experiment with happiness .........................................194
103. Catch life by the handle ..............................................197
104. Leave yourself messages ..............................................198
105. Try reinventing yourself ...............................................199
106. Choose responding over reacting ................................200
107. Apply the book you read ..............................................201
108. Do what you can do today ...........................................204
109. Create a different system! ............................................206
110. Enjoy your resistance training .....................................207
Bibliography .................................................................209
Index ............................................................................ 213
About the Author .........................................................219
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Motivation Requires Fire
When Bob Dylan wrote in his book Chronicles about how
much he admired Joan Baez before he met her, he said, “I’d
be scared to meet her. I didn’t want to meet her but I knew I
would. I was going in the same direction even though I was in
back of her at the moment. She had the fire, and I felt I had the
same kind of fire.”
We don’t question what he means by “the fire.” We read
on, knowing full well what he means. But sometimes I wonder,
though. Do we really? Do we know it from experience? Do we
feel the same fire? Do you have to be a poet or a singer? No. We
all know what it is to have that same fire, no matter how briefly
we have experienced it.
My own life’s turning point came when I discovered I could
light that fire all by myself. It took me more than 50 years to
discover this. But I’m slow in these matters. You can get it today
if you want. For the first 50 years of my life I thought the fire
only happened when something inspired me. It was something
that had to happen to me. And the reason I believed that was
because that was my experience. You have to go by what you
know, don’t you?
The funniest thing about fire is that it takes fire to light it.
I go to the fireplace to start a fire. I put crumpled-up news-
paper under the kindling. Then I put the logs over the kindling
wood. But how do I start this fire? I need a match. Or a lighter.
You have to have fire to start a fire. Ironic? Paradoxical? Counter-
intuitive? Cruel hoax?
A friend of mine once said, “You’re on fire!” He was referring
to the fact that I’d just sent him a flurry of book ideas, written
copy for things we were selling, recorded audio programs, and a
number of other activities and actions.
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