NLP going for gold

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Jimmy Petruzzi

to get out of bed in the morning or to go for a run at 6am. Regardless of the desired outcome the same forces of motivation either away from things or toward them, are continually at work. One thing that has always fascinated me is what drives people on to live their lives in a certain way. We all have a choice, we can all decide how we want to live our lives, and underneath those choices people’s lives are shaped.

What is motivation? Motivation is the level of drive we feel to perform certain tasks at a given time. It is a mysterious thing because although a simple concept, the science of motivation can be rather complex. What drives one person is different to what drives another and yet at its core, what drives each of us is the same. Through understanding motivation and how it affects our behavior on a daily basis we can harness powerful forces to aid in the pursuit of our goals. Without continual motivation of the right kind, there can be no success.

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