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Mastering Psychology: Discover the Science behind Motivation, Productivity and Success (Overcome Procrastination and Laziness)

Everyone in the world is motivated by something.
Some people are motivated by a need to engage in certain actions. Others might feel a desire to earn a particular reward. There are also times when people are motivated to act by simply avoiding very specific problems or issues that might happen in their lives. It is vital for people in supervisory positions to understand whatever it is that influences and motivates someone to action.
The purpose of this book is to help understand what motivation is and the many theories that make up the science of psychology.
Contents:
Understanding Motivation and Productivity
– Why Is Motivation so Important?
– A Basic Cycle
– The Three Key Parts of Motivation
– Managing Both Desires
– Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Wants
– The Jonah Complex (A Fear of Success)
– The ERG Theory
– Theories X and Y
– The Two-Factor Theory
– The 16 Basic Desires
– Resistance
– Understanding Willpower and the Link to Motivation
– Cognitive Motivation
– Intrinsic Motivation
– Extrinsic Motivation
– Arousal Theory
– The Incentive Theory
– Expectancy Theory
– Equity Theory
– Goal-Setting Theory
– Developmental Perspectives on Motivation
– Piaget’s Values for Cognitive Development
– Self-Determination Theory
– The Concept of Positive Psychology on Motivation
– The Principle of Utility
– The Instinct Theory
– Drive-Reduction Theory
– How Managers Become Leaders When Motivating People
– What Causes People to Impair Motivation?
– Positives to Find In Any Motivational Plan
– A Few Final Points
If you are sincere in changing your life for the better, this book will definitely help you.

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Joy, Inspiration, and Hope (CAROLYN AND ERNEST FAY SERIES IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

Verena Kast makes the case that not only therapists and analysts but also individuals seeking growth in their own lives should give more attention to the elated emotions. Fear of excess (mania) and analytic preoccupation with grief, anxiety, and depression have together caused joy and hope to be shunned as a focus in individuation (the process toward wholeness). Joy answers the human need for elated feeling and meaning in our lives, a need which is often filled in modern society by secularized parodies of religious ecstasy, such as addiction and compulsiveness.
Kast suggests simple techniques for recapturing our joy through development of an autobiography of joy. Using this approach, we can discover what gives us joy personally, how we can best experience joy, and how and why we choke off our joy. By viewing joy, inspiration, and hope as core emotions in our being, we open ourselves to greater wholeness and fuller life.

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20 Principles of Productivity: Focus, Motivation, Organization, Habit Building, Time Management, Apps, Psychology, Goal Setting, Procrastination & More

This book will help you become more productive and professional starting today and for the rest of your life. Boosting your overall productivity will help you get more done in your business or any job regardless of which career you choose. This book is a collection of 20 productivity principles that will help you accomplish more in your daily minute to minute work, and in your life’s work by helping you set your life’s work on a path better suited for you as the individual. This book will help you identify the what’s most important for you, focus on those things, and say no to the things that are not important. Here are some of the productivity fields covered in this book: – Productivity fundamentals – Improving your focus – Self-discipline – Habit building: learn to form healthy work habits that replace damaging or bad habits – Productivity smartphone apps and desktop software – Minimizing distractions from your phone, co-workers, and browser tabs – Organization (how to improve organization of your desk and work area) – Task and project outsourcing – Task delegation – Business process optimization – Marketing optimization and automation – Work efficiency – Faster learning with coaching and masterminds – Planning projects ahead – Overall health maintenance for productivity – Improving your memory and cognitive ability. Memory is underrated in how closely it is related to ability to learn faster and intelligence – Time management, keeping a calendar and a schedule – Task and project prioritization – Self-awareness to make wiser choices – Practicing Mindfulness meditation to reinforce your self-awareness so you can choose projects and life goals more wisely after working on getting to know yourself better – Psychology and mindset to boost everything from focus to motivation to having more clarity when it comes to greater goal setting for your life – How to uncover your life purpose and set your life on the path that is right for you – Goal setting: short-term goal setting and long-term goal setting for your life projects – Reversing and decreasing procrastination by recognizing that procrastination is often a habit that we have to replace with a better habit – Boosting motivation (how to get short-term intrinsic and long-term extrinsic motivation) – Productive market testing for products and business ideas – Meeting productivity This book will help you become more productive today and for the rest of your career. No matter which career you choose, whether you want to start a business or be a productive and highly effective employee who shoots up through the ranks at your company, this book will give you all the tools to help you stand out, and do your best work. There are more than 20 principles of productivity in this book. I often add to the book. In the most recent edition of the book, I added a chapter on memory management and improving your memory. Memory has to do with intelligence and our cognitive abilities and has an impact on our overall productivity. I’ll be constantly working to add even more productivity strategies to this book on an ongoing basis. If you have the Kindle version of the book, your Kindle copy of the book will update automatically as the book is updated. Get this book today, and begin making yourself much more effective at everything you do, getting more done.

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The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology

100% scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and be flat-out likable.

Some of the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive scientific conclusions to simply make people want to be around you.

In The Science of Likability, you’ll get all that and more. I’ve taken 27 seminal scientific and psychological studies and broken them down, so you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research.

Learn how subconsciously to make yourself seem likable, trustworthy, and intelligent.

You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn funny jokes. But likability is something more. It’s subconscious, and it’s the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down and embrace others. Learn what common sense and intuition doesn’t teach you.

Analysis and insight from the best in the business.

From Freud, to Cialdini, to Pavlov, to Schachter, to Goleman, these studies are insightful, analytical, sometimes surprising, but most importantly, effective and actionable. Pair that with the insight and human intelligence factor of best-selling author and social skills coach Patrick King, and you have a guide that can be listened to equally for education, as for helpful, real advice.

Small and subtle actions, big results:

– Chapter 1. How to Improve People’s Moods.
Chapter 2. How to Turn Enemies into Friends.
Chapter 6. How to Gain Trust and Credibility.
Chapter 7. How to Work Well With Others.

Understand what makes people tick.

– Chapter 8. How to be More Endearing.
Chapter 10. How to Lead Anyone.
Chapter 11. How to Avoid Being Judged.
Chapter 13. How to be Funny and Charismatic.

Being likable unlocks the doors to everything you want in life.

A better career? You better believe that the people with the most promotions and highest salaries aren’t just the most qualified. Better love life? Being likable keeps you a potential date to anyone you want. Better relationships and friendships? Not only that, but you open the door to people wanting to be friends with you. Likability is the hidden force that makes people appear to be lucky in life, and receive more opportunities than they know what to do with.

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The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that increasingly is being used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers. It argues for a focus on the quality of workers’ motivation over quantity. Motivation that is based on meaning and interest is shown to be superior to motivation that is based on pressure and rewards. Work environments that make workers feel competent, autonomous, and related to others foster the right type of motivation, goals, and work values.

The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory aims to give current and future organizational researchers ideas for future research using self-determination theory as a framework, and to give practitioners ideas on how to adjust their programs and practices using self-determination theory principles. The book brings together self-determination theory experts and organizational psychology experts to talk about past and future applications of the theory to the field of organizational psychology. The book covers a wide range of topics, including how to bring about commitment, engagement, and passion in the workplace; how to manage stress, health, emotions, and violence at work; how to encourage safe and sustainable behavior in organizations; how factors like attachment styles, self-esteem, person-environment fit, job design, leadership, compensation, and training affect work motivation; and how work-related values and goals are forged by the work environment and affect work outcomes.

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Handbook of Motivation at School (Educational Psychology Handbook)

The second edition of the Handbook of Motivation at School presents an integrated compilation of theory and research in the field. With chapters by leading experts, this book covers the major theoretical perspectives in the field as well as their application to instruction, learning, and social adjustment at school. Section I focuses on theoretical perspectives and major constructs, Section II on contextual and social influences on motivation, and Section III on new directions in the field.

This new edition will have the same popular organizational structure with theories at the beginning. It will also include new chapters that cover motivation as it relates to identity, culture, test anxiety, mindfulness, neuroscience, parenting, metacognition, and regulatory focus.

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Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation

Learn to Take Control of Your Life, Through an In-Depth Understanding of Motivation:

What is motivation? Why do we feel totally paralyzed to do certain things, and utterly unable to quit others? Too many people conclude, falsely, that they are just lazy, or lacking in willpower. But what they lack is a correct understanding of their own minds, of motivation, and the way that it operates.

This book is a self-help manual and a rigorous analysis of the psychology of motivation. It will teach you to stop procrastinating, kick your addictions, circumvent laziness, take control of your actions, and achieve your goals, by thoroughly understanding the way your mind works. In it, you’ll learn:

What is the nature of motivation, on its deepest psychological level Why addiction and procrastination are two sides of the same coin Why there’s no fundamental difference between a physical and psychological addiction Why willpower is rarely the solution to anything Why and how emotions motivate

You’ll also learn fourteen powerful strategies for motivating yourself, why they work, and how to apply them to your own life. By the end of this book, you’ll possess all the tools you need to take firm control of your daily existence.

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Sports Quotes: 200 Quotes from Famous Athletes about Sports Psychology and Performance

See what motivates the successful, determined athletes from the past century
Find your drive and motivation by looking at some of the clever things top athletes have said. Learn from Michael Jordan, Bob Cousy, Diana Nyad, Joe Palermo, Yogi Berra, LeBron James, and others. They share their insights in the world of sports, the mental capacity, the will power, and the inner strength someone needs to push them to the finish line or the victory in their specific sports. Become acquainted with their mindset and inner strategies to cope with the pressure and competition in a realm of excellence. These quotes will inspire you to do better.

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.

You’ll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.

Arguably the best book ever on what is increasingly becoming the science of persuasion. Whether you’re a mere consumer or someone weaving the web of persuasion to urge others to buy or vote for your product, this is an essential book for understanding the psychological foundations of marketing. Recommended.

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