#1: Throw Yourself a Pity-Party Well, we’ve finally counted down to #1 in our top five ways to demotivate yourself. You’ve worked hard to get people to leave you alone. You hung out with the losers; now they’re all dead, in jail or out finding some other sucker to mooch from because you certainly don’t [...]
Look for Reasons NOT to Do Something Your primary purpose in life is to try to maintain the status quo. The sad truth is you have to demotivate yourself daily in order to do this. However, occasionally – OK, very rarely in your case – you get this weird feeling in your body. At first, [...]
Stop Setting Goals This video by well-known success guru, Robert Scheinfeld pretty much lets you off the hook, doesn’t it? I mean, if an expert like Bob tells us goal setting doesn’t work, what more proof do we need. So grab the chips and a brewsky, go back to the couch and settle in for [...]
Note: Keep in mind that this is a backwards, sarcastic way to look at motivation by taking the path of least resistance to demotivate yourself. You may want to go back to the first article in this series to truly appreciate the ‘humor’ of seeing motivation this way. Cutting Down Achievers Makes You Appear Bigger [...]
This Locomotive Could Really Demotivate “I think I can’t, I think I can’t…” from the Little Train that Couldn’t I like easy. In this series we’re going to follow the path of least resistance and attack motivation from the back door as we explore five easy ways to demotivate yourself. Many people, if not most, [...]