Motivating Yourself for Achievement (NetEffect Series)

by Bell, Arthur H., Ph.D.; Smith, Dayle M., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780130335425
• ISBN10: 0130335428
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Written in an interest-grabbing, person-to-person style, this brief, unique step-by-step guide/workbook explores both the classic and most recent theories and applications of human motivation, showing readers how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement. Hands-on in approach, it combines assessment activities, narrative, and frequent opportunities for readers to enter their own thoughts, reactions, and experiencesresulting in an insightful intellectual diary on the nature of one's own personal motivation profile.Motivation: What It Isand Isn't. Dealing with the Classic Demotivators. Assessing Your Primary Motivators. Motivation from the Inside. Motivation from the Outside. Motivation by Reward. Motivation by What You Expect. Motivation by What's Fair. Overcoming Demotivators and Mapping Your Motivational Goals.For anyone interested in how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Motivation: What It Is---and Isn't	1	(14)
What Motivates You?	2	(1)
Motivation: A Current, Not a Switch	3	(1)
The Science and Art of Motivation	4	(1)
A Baseline Experiment: You at Repose	5	(4)
When Motivators Fail Entirely	9	(1)
The Natural Rhythms of Motivation	10	(1)
Finding Your Own Rhythms for Rest and Motivation	11	(1)
Locating Your Own Sources for Motivation	12	(1)
Summing Up	13	(2)
Dealing with the Classic Demotivators	15	(10)
Summing Up	24	(1)
Assessing Your Primary Motivators	25	(8)
Interpretation	31	(1)
Summing Up	32	(1)
Motivation from the Inside	33	(14)
Silent Motivators and Rational Motivators	34	(1)
Basic Physical Motivators	35	(3)
Psychological and Social Motivators	38	(1)
The People Behind the Motivators	39	(2)
Sources of Personal Motivation in Culture and Religion	41	(1)
What You Expect of Yourself	42	(4)
Summing Up	46	(1)
Motivation from the Outside	47	(10)
Motivators from Life's Taskmasters	48	(3)
Discovering Unspoken Motivators	51	(5)
Guarding Your Motivational ``Buttons''	56	(1)
Summing Up	56	(1)
Motivation by Reward	57	(10)
What Do You Want?	58	(1)
How Will You Reward Yourself?	58	(2)
Converting Outside Rewards to Inner Rewards	60	(4)
The Timing of Rewards	64	(2)
Summing Up	66	(1)
Motivation by What You Expect	67	(12)
Goal-Directed Activities Leading to Goal-Fulfillment Activities	69	(1)
Oliver in Trouble	70	(2)
Saving Oliver-or, Watching Oliver Save Himself	72	(1)
Using Vroom's Formula for Personal Assessment	73	(1)
Rising to the Challenge	74	(1)
Using the Challenge Phenomenon in Self-Motivation	75	(1)
Dreaming Our Lives Away	76	(2)
Summing Up	78	(1)
Motivation by What's Fair	79	(10)
When the Scales of Justice Go Awry	80	(1)
Balancing the Scales of Justice	81	(3)
Experiencing Cognitive Dissonance	84	(2)
Finding Motivation When the Scales Are Tipped Against Us	86	(1)
Making the Best of Broken Scales	87	(1)
Summing Up	88	(1)
Overcoming Demotivators and Mapping Your Motivational Goals	89	(8)
Looking Back at Demotivators with New Eyes	90	(4)
Mapping Your Personal Motivators	94	(1)
Summing Up	95	(2)
Recommended Reading	97	(2)
Index	99