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19 Ways to boost your motivation and personal effectiveness

  
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1. Get an accountability buddy. Not only does having an accountability buddy help you stay on track to achieve the results you want, they are also a great source of motivation and keeping you effective too. To find out more about having an accountability buddy read 1o reasons to have an accountability buddy and How To Find An Accountability Buddy

2. Protect yourself from energy draining and toxic people. They will suck the life out of you and have a negative impact on your motivation and effectiveness.

3. Surround yourself with positive, constructive, solution focussed people who fuel your fire. It will give a tremendous boost to your energy levels which has a fairly hefty knock on effect to your motivation and effectiveness.

4. Create a powerful vision for your life, work and relationships. Keep focussed on it and visualise achieving it each and every day. It will help you keep motivation going when you experience setbacks, obstacles or when the brown stuff hits the fan.

5. Get fresh air – every day. Amazing the difference this makes. Try it.

6. Spend time in nature and the great outdoors. Fabulous stress buster and as stress is a motivation and effectiveness drainer this is worth doing.

7. De- clutter your mental and physical space.

8. Do more things that give you mental and physical energy. Do less of the things that drain your mental and physical energy. For a practical tip on how to do this read this.

9. Have a strong action plan and work that baby consistently! (more…)

Are You Doing These 7 Mistakes ?

  
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*  You’re a momentum trader and you’re trading a slow, low volatility market;
*  You’re a trend trader and you’re trading a choppy, range market;
*  You’re a research-oriented big picture trader and you’re getting caught up in short-term price action;
*  You’re a skilled short-term trader and you’re locked in a longer-term directional market view;
*  You’re a contrarian fader and you’re getting run over in high volume directional flows;
*  You’re an independent thinker, but you’re distracted and influenced by the views of others;
*  You’re a trader who reads others well at the table, but you’re isolated from other traders;
A great way to lose money is to not understand yourself and how you’re wired cognitively.  If you’re a deep thinker, you’ll lose money sitting at the trading table.  If you’re a fast thinker, you’ll lose money dabbling with investment theses.  The route to success is to be who you are when you’re functioning at your best.  Working on improving your discipline, controlling your emotions, and following your process is not helpful if you’re sitting at the wrong table to begin with.
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