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August 2, 2012 10 Comments
Use Envy To Get You Going!
August 1, 2012 5 Comments
In Buddhism, the term irshya is commonly translated as either envy or jealousy. Irshya is defined as a state of mind in which one is highly agitated to obtain wealth and honor for oneself, but unable to bear the excellence of others.The term mudita (sympathetic joy) is defined as taking joy in the good fortune of others. This virtue is considered the antidote to envy.
Moreover, psychologists (van den Ven et al., 2009) have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy – benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force.Do read the article here http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/05/why-envy-motivates-us.php and note the following:
We tend to feel malicious envy towards another person if we think their success is undeserved. This is the type that makes us want to strike out at the other person and bring them down a peg or two. However when another’s success feels deserved to us, we tend to feel a benign envy: one that isn’t destructive but instead motivates.
…people who felt they had little control over their ability to improve resorted to admiration. On the other hand, those who thought they could improve experienced benign envy and were motivated to work harder. It’s the feeling of control that motivates.
Benign envy encouraged people to perform better on measures of intelligence and creativity, when compared with both admiration and malicious envy.
Stretch Goals
July 27, 2012 6 Comments
Reach for the sun to achieve your best.
The spur for this article is this post.As Alex puts it :Reach for the sun to achieve your best.Or as the Malayalam proverb goes reach for the stars at least you will fall on top of the coconut trees.
Stretch goals have their place.I believe Azim Premji has a good test for the ambitiousness of our goals.If you are coming in late,check this link.By setting the bar too low for oneself we do not grow ourselves as much as we could.
However perfection is far away and when we have our eyes fixed on the horizon,we are not living in the present.There is no sense of urgency.However a smaller goal with a deadline attached to it creates a sense of urgency.
So by all means have long term goals,stretch ones but demarcate smaller goals to be achieved en-route.Add a reasonable due date to achieve these short term goals.And a small trick?Make these goals easy to reach.Think how the WordPress edit page counts in steps of five?It will keep you motivated.And remember to have a way to measure your progress constantly.Measuring something draws your attention towards it.And where attention flows,results appear.Also counting down and thinking about how close you are to the finish will help you focus and keep you going longer.
Flashing Money Around
July 26, 2012 6 Comments
Here is the sort of situation you get if you use money as a bait! Think about it.
When John found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his
sick father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with.
So one evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the
most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty
took his breath away.
I may look like just an ordinary man, he said as he walked up to
her but in just a week or two, my father will die, and I’ll inherit
20 million dollars.”
Impressed, the woman went home with him that evening and,
three days later, she became his Stepmother.
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