12/17/2025
With the new year coming up, I am offering a freebie to help people follow through on their resolutions.
The key to following through is understanding motivation and how to activate it when you need it. No matter how good your plan is, you can’t count on being motivated at the critical moment it’s time to start working on your goal. Willpower can help you over the occasional hump, but it leads to burnout over the long run. Skill at motivating yourself is much more powerful.
There are three basic ways of motivating yourself:
--You conceptualize the goal such that it’s relatively easy to activate the desire for it in the moment of choice
--You build auxiliary motivation into the plan
--You develop skill at self-direction, including course correction, so you can activate motivation at the moment
We’ll talk about all three in this session.
Motivating Steady Work on a Major Goal
Thursday, January 1, 2026
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
12:00 noon Pacific, 1:00 p.m. Mountain, 2:00 p.m. Central
There is nothing more important to achieving a major goal than steady work on it. There will be setbacks and pivots, because you cannot predict all of the problems you will face. The sooner you face them, the sooner you can solve them.
But to keep working steadily despite setbacks and pivots, you need to know how to motivate yourself. In this session, I will discuss the three levers of motivation, how you acquire them, and why they work.
Register here:
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