Your Best Year Ever, Chapter 11: You Can Master Your Own Motivation

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Productivity, Teamleadership, Mental Health, Business, Leadership, Selfleadership, Personaldevelopment, Intentionality, Influence, Achievement, Selfdevelopment, Self-improvement, Management, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this chapter, Michael explores the power of perseverance and grit in achieving our goals. We discuss mastering motivation, intrinsic rewards, debunking habit formation myths, dual coding theory, measuring progress, lead and lag measures, incremental wins, and partnering with peers.

This is just one chapter from Michael's newly-revised, best-selling book. Over the next month, we'll be releasing a few chapters a week so that you can be prepared for 2024 to be your Best Year Ever.

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0:00.0	Hey there, hope you enjoy these first chapters from my newly revised book, Your Best Year Ever.
0:06.0	If a content resonated with you, chances are it will with someone you know too.
0:11.0	So would you just take a couple of seconds and share this
0:13.8	episode with a friend, maybe a family member or a colleague? I want you and the
0:18.1	people that you love and care about to have their best year ever and the best way to do that is by sharing this
0:23.8	episode with them. It would seriously mean the world to me and I bet it would be a lot
0:28.6	to them too. So take a second, hit the share button, send it to someone you know who deserves to have
0:34.4	their best year ever. Thanks.
0:38.6	Chapter 11 You can master your own motivation.
0:42.6	With the ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance,
0:45.9	all things are attainable.
0:48.0	Thomas Thowle Buxton.
0:50.8	If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
0:55.0	Steve Jobs.
0:56.0	My parents had me start piano lessons when I was five.
0:59.0	I really didn't enjoy playing very much until about the ninth grade. Suddenly I wasn't just a
1:04.6	piano player. I was a budding rock and roll keyboardist. That made all the
1:09.0	difference in terms of my motivation. About the same time I took up guitar. I started with classical guitar and
1:14.6	then of course began playing electric guitar. I started a band with some high school
1:18.2	friends. I had a good feel for the instrument, but I had scales and chords to learn, songs to memorize, and atone to mesh with other musicians.
1:27.0	At first we achieved a sound reminiscent of brawling alleycats, but we got better.
1:31.5	I loved Crosby Stills and Ash and sometimes young, so I also kept playing acoustic guitar.
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