Ways to Motivate Yourself Change Your Life Forever
The entire world was not yet living in cyberspace. The Internet was a relatively new idea, and very few of us knew how big a part of our lives it would become. As the new millennium dawned, a strange thing began to happen. People everywhere were writing again, just as people did in the 1800s when they took their quills out to write letters and diaries.
The age of mind-numbing television viewing had been eclipsed by the age of chat rooms and e-mail. This wonderful evolutionary jump in civilization gave this little book that you are holding in your hands right now brand-new life. All of a sudden the fight for limited shelf space in bookstores was not as important to a book's success. What became most important was the book's word-of-mouth "buzz" over the Internet.
1. Get on your deathbed
2. Stay hungry
3. Tell yourself a true lie
4. Keep your eyes on the prize
5. Learn to sweat in peace
6. Simplify your life
7. Look for the lost gold
8. Push all your own buttons
9. Build a track record
10. Welcome the unexpected
11. Find your master key
12. Put your library on wheels
13. Definitely plan your work
14. Bounce your thoughts
15. Light your lazy dynamite
16. Choose the happy few
17. Learn to play a role
18. Don't just do something...sit there
19. Use your brain chemicals
20. Leave high school forever
21. Learn to lose your cool
22. Kill your television
23. Break out of your soul cage
24. Run your own plays
25. Find your inner Einstein
26. Run toward your fear
27. Create the way you relate
28. Try interactive listening
29. Embrace your willpower
30. Perform your little rituals
31. Find a place to come from
32. Be your own disciple
33. Turn into a word processor
34. Program your biocomputer
35. Open your present
36. Be a good detective
37. Make a relation-shift
38. Learn to come from behind
39. Come to your own rescue
40. Find your soul purpose
41. Get up on the right side
42. Let your whole brain play
43. Get your stars out
44. Just make everything up
45. Put on your game face
46. Discover active relaxation
47. Make today a masterpiece
48. Enjoy all your problems
49. Remind your mind
50. Get down and get small
51. Advertise to yourself
52. Think outside the box
53. Keep thinking, keep thinking
54. Put on a good debate
55. Make trouble work for you
56. Storm your own brain
57. Keep changing your voice
58. Embrace the new frontier
59. Upgrade your old habits
60. Paint your masterpiece today
61. Swim laps underwater
62. Bring on a good coach
63. Try to sell your home
64. Get your soul to talk
65. Promise the moon
66. Make somebody's day
67. Play the circle game
68. Get up a game
69. Turn your mother down
70. Face the sun
71. Travel deep inside
72. Go to war
73. Use the 5% solution
74. Do something badly
75. Learn visioneering
76. Lighten things up
77. Serve and grow rich
78. Make a list of your life
79. Set a specific power goal
80. Change yourself first
81. Pin your life down
82. Take no for a question
83. Take the road to somewhere
84. Go on a news fast
85. Replace worry with action
86. Run with the thinkers
87. Put more enjoyment in
88. Keep walking
89. Read more mysteries
90. Think your way up
91. Exploit your weakness
92. Try becoming the problem
93. Enlarge your objective
94. Give yourself flying lessons
95. Hold your vision accountable
96. Build your power base
97. Connect truth to beauty
98. Read yourself a story
99. Laugh for no reason
100. Walk with love and death
To Robert Brink and Jodi Brandon for the masterful editing, to Lindsay Brady for the ongoing perception of success, to Stephanie Chandler for tirelessly working the cosmos, to Kathy for more than I can say, to Jim Brannigan for the representation, to Fred Knipe for the music on New Year's Eve, to Ron Fry for Career Press, to Karen Wolf for the international distribution, to Nathaniel Branden for the psychology, to Colin Wilson for the philosophy, to Arnold Schwarzenegger for a day to remember, to Rett Nichols for the tension plan, to Graham Walsh for the Tavern on the Green, to Terry Hill for the century's first real mystery novel, to Cindy Chandler for the salvation, to Ed and Jeanne for the Wrigley Mansion, to John Shade for the fire, to Scott Richardson for the ideas, to Ann Coulter for the wake-up calls, to Steven Forbes Hardison for coaching and friendship beyond the earthly norm, and to Dr. Deepak Chopra for unconcealing the creative intelligence that holds us all together.