JUST STAND UP! Mariah, Beyonce, Rihanna, Miley, Leona & more
Just Stand Up - I chose this motivational song because it gives an incredible inspirational message of not giving up and to stand up to your challenges. Whether it's a job loss, a broken heart, cancer, or a loss of a loved one... you got it in you to stand up even if your mind is telling you to give up on life. I've come to believe that everything happens for a reason, a reason that helps us in some way. You just have to give it enough time for that reason to reveal itself. Have faith that things will get better. You may feel like you're the only one who is going through whatever it is you're going through but realize that many people have dealt with and are dealing with the same things. Keep your head up.
************The simplest way to be HAPPY************
Helen Keller, wrote in a 1933 Home Magazine article entitled
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature — and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy,
but to create happiness
It all comes to this:
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
How to Speak Like MLK Jr.
King was a magnificent orator, and a great persuader. Yes, the latter was true because of the former, but not entirely. And, yes, King was blessed with a silver tongue that could turn a phrase more eloquently than most. But King also commanded attention, projected authority, and exuded credibility by cultivating a few persuasion tools. They are practices even those of us not so naturally gifted in the language and oratorical arts can nurture,
in our efforts to move people for social good.
Any of King's speeches amply demonstrate this; but I've chosen a brief clip from his final prophetic speech, delivered April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee.
in our efforts to move people for social good.
Any of King's speeches amply demonstrate this; but I've chosen a brief clip from his final prophetic speech, delivered April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee.
These three minutes of King’s final words demonstrate three key principles about how to effectively package and deliver an influential message.
—Don't just speak, make music. Music is made from melody, a conjunction of pitch and rhythm resulting in a satisfying harmony. You can hear it in King's words here. “Maybe I could understand...” sets the pitch. “But somewhere I read...” creates a syncopated rhythm. They form a two-part harmony that builds to a crescendo that—if you don’t fight it—lifts you right up out of your seat. Music moves us. It is emotional and visceral. It is persuasive.—Be the master of your own face. Credibility is essential. This type of sincerity, integrity and trustworthiness cannot be conveyed by mere words alone. You must show it in your face. Your words may tell people to accept what you say. But your face reveals whether you actually believe and mean it yourself. Any discrepancy between what your words declare and what your face exposes and your audience loses faith. When I watch King over the course of these three minutes I see a man whose face is consistent with his purpose. His message is tinged with justifiable anger and a biting tone. He’s telling America it has not lived up to its promises. He demands better, and he believes America can do better. His wide eyes and batting eyelashes, his occasional curled lip and cocked head, his clenched teeth and his just-at-the-right-time smile: they all paint an image of one who embodies the demands, expectations and hopes for a country whose future was set in the path of progress.
—Travel with an entourage. I say this only partly in jest. Being flanked by exemplars, as King is in his pulpit, as he always seems to be when addressing the public, conveys both authority and leadership. It also shows that people have enough faith in you to have your back.
If we can learn to move people the way music moves us; if we can exhibit the kind of credibility of manner that gains public trust; if we can speak with a sense of authority (even a little audacity), then we, too, might summon the persuasive power to challenge the nation’s conscience (or our community’s), motivate legions of allies (or just a supporter or two supporting a good cause) and change the world (or just our neighborhood).
*** Man In The Mirror ***
Man in the Mirror - I chose this motivational song because of its important message. There's a story where a man is in his death bed and tells his children an important lesson. He told them when he was young, he wanted to change the world. As he got older, he realized that was too difficult so he focused on changing is country. Without luck, he then focused on changing his community. As he now lies in his deathbed, he finally realizes that if he had started by making a change in himself, he might've inspired his community to change, which might've led to his country to change and finally inspire the world to change.
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
Important Message ENJOY VIDEO
Using the Internet to Motivate
Michael Pusateri is a 43-year-old senior vice president at the Disney- ABC Television Group, but he still doesn't eat his vegetables. So in October he joined Health Month, an online game that allows him to compete against 16,000 other users in striving toward his goals—which include cycling 80 miles a week and going on a weekly date with his wife. When he made progress, he earned life points and raised his ranking. When he failed, he lost points but could ask other players to take pity and "heal" him by giving him virtual "fruit." The game prepared him for his first triathlon.
Internet game-playing as motivational tool - latimes.com
How To Keep Your Resolution
One way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. If you support protection of the world’s rain forests, you could decide that your penalty payment will go to an organization that favors commercial development of the Amazon. ... Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
THE UPSIDE TO : ANGER
There maybe an upside to anger: People put more effort in action to obtain objects associated with angry faces.
But could there be an upside to anger? A new study in Psychological Science explains that when we associate an object with anger we want the object (more than if we did not associate it with anger) — a motivation usually linked to positive emotions.
Psychological scientist Henk Aarts of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and coauthors asked participants in a study to watch a computer screen while images of common objects, such as a mug or a pen, appeared on the screen. What participants didn’t realize was that immediately before each object appeared, the screen flashed either a neutral face, an angry face, or a fearful face.
Each subliminal image effectively associated a specific emotion with each object. At the end of the experiment, the participants were asked how much they wanted each object. In a second version of the same experiment, they squeezed a handgrip to get the desired object: Those who squeezed harder were more likely to win the object.
The researchers found that people put more effort in action to obtain objects associated with angry faces, but did not do this for items associated with fear.“This makes sense if you think about the evolution of human motivation,” says Aarts. For example, if there is limited food in an environment, individuals that associate food with anger (and turn aggression into an attack response to get the food) are more likely to survive.
“If the food does not make you angry or doesn’t produce aggression in your system, you may starve and lose the battle,” Aarts says. So when your toddler screams “I want it!” while grabbing chocolates in the store, take heart — they are just showing increased motivation.
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