Top products from r/motivation
We found 32 product mentions on r/motivation. We ranked the 21 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Get It Done When You're Depressed
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Get It Done When You're Depressed: 50 Strategies for Keeping Your Life on Track
2. Success Express Lane: Your Roadmap to Personal Achievement
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
3. Boost Your Self-Esteem and Start Living the Life You Deserve: 12 Easy Steps to Improve Your Life
Sentiment score: 8
Number of reviews: 1
4. Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
5. The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
7. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
8. Rewiring Your Self to Break Addictions and Habits: Overcoming Problem Patterns
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
9. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
10. The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
11. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)"Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."
13. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Revised Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
PENGUIN GROUP
14. Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
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Number of reviews: 1
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
15. Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Touchstone
16. Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
University Press Group Ltd
17. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Anchor Books
18. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Ballantine Books
I've had similar goals based around fitness and diet and also relationships. I've had stretches of good and stretches of bad, but the thing that helped was changing my mindset (and it is still a daily struggle)
I have read some good books on these topics as well for self-awareness and highly recommend them, though some are pretty dense.
If you really want a wake-up call, for me it was a close-relative who had a heart-attack (smoker, and unhealthy eater and at a young age (late 40's) he survived and recovered fully, but being much younger I discovered it is not too late. I look at it not like your investing only in the future self, but that my quality of life is going up as well. As Shaw-shank-redemption says "Get busy living or get busy dying" , Once you start making positive changes they will keep you motivated as well.
pm me if you have any questions or need some help.
Been there. We all have. Keep that in mind too—the last thing you need is to feel down on yourself for being human. Remember that in some ways, you're just a machine wired to feel this way. Know how your machinery works, and you can make it work better.
For now focus on your next action and task at hand—but when you're out of this, two books:
Here's a quote from the 2nd one that is relevant to you at this moment:
> Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
That's what I tell myself every time I have a gigantic task to do. Bird by bird. It reminds me to just take it one step at a time.
*edit: Ah, I have to share this one too... next paragraph after that one in "Bird by Bird"—
> E. L. Doctorow once said that "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.
Since you posted it in this sub, check out the book by Chris Hadfield
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
His interviews are great and it should help you get some perspective of what kind of traits you need to work on.
I find it's always helpful to find role models to keep motivated.
Also, you should probably do some research about the careers of UK astronauts. I'm not sure if they are all military or engineers. That way you can find the path that fits you best and start cutting it up into smaller and more manageable steps.
I do believe you can live a fulfilled life with zero motivation. Motivation is temporary inspiration.
What you need is commitment. Just commit to do something. I highly recommend this book.
After I saw this list and the reviews, I immediately went to the book store to look for the first book on the list.
Unfortunately I couldn't find it, but I did find something else that I'm now reading called "Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Thing That Matter" by Hal Urban.
Great read so far!
Read http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/0345472322 It is a book about different mindsets and how they effect your ability to do things in your life. Her description of people that procrastinate described me perfectly.
The book helped me change my perspective on things and it didn't cure me of procrastination but it helped me a lot.
Good luck
Cool post.
Amazon link - 254 reviews - 86% 5 star - 0% 1 star
Posts like this, that actually have something that we can think about and apply, are so much better than the, "Be awesome" stuff.
The reason is because human memory has limits. Check this book out. It mostly answer questions like this and provide solution.
Success Express Lane: Your Roadmap to Personal Achievement
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HGLHC8F/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_crLVBbYBZB5E6
https://bit.ly/success-passcode
Secrets of Success I think it's called. :)
Edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-Success-Eric-Thomas-ebook/dp/B008HKJBFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395619297&sr=8-1&keywords=secrets+of+success
Hi it's also available in UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU and IN.
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Cheers,
Alex
That's absolute horseshit I've never read anything that sounds more like useless pablum in my life. Meritocracy is a complete myth in our society. Read the book the myth of meritocracy
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691167400/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6eVJyb4VY44ZF
Of course hard work matters but there is literally so much that is out of our control. All we can control is what's immediately in our control and even then literally 90-95% of everything going on in our mind is completely unconscious to us (Leonard mlodinow - subliminal).
We need to stop seeing ourselves as fully self caused individuals and instead see ourselves as a confluence of influences. r/determinism
This does not negate our responsibility it simply reframes and enhances it.
After some searching, looks like it's from "The $100 Startup" by Chris Guillebeau.
https://www.amazon.com/100-Startup-Reinvent-Living-Create/dp/0307951529
Yup. Just like reading the incredible recent sci-fi book that delves into quantum physics multi-verse theory Anathem, by Neil Stephenson: it doesn't kick in until after a few hundred pages.
Read this. It’s works.
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319
The Art of Living
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Living-Classical-Happiness-Effectiveness/dp/B0000544PO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519087008&sr=8-1&keywords=epictetus+the+art+of+living
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401938094/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TFCfAb40K5VXD