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Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.

Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
Shouldn't you announce your goals, so friends can support you? Isn't it good networking to tell people about your upcoming projects? Doesn't the “law of attraction” mean you should state your intention, and visualize the goal as already yours? Nope. Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you're less motivated to do the hard work needed. In 1933, W. NYU psychology professor Peter Gollwitzer has been studying this since his 1982 book “Symbolic Self-Completion” (pdf article here) - and recently published results of new tests in a research article, “When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap?” Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.

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How to browse the Web anonymously Looking for a job, searching for a divorce lawyer, researching a medical condition or commenting on sensitive political issues that you don’t want anyone to know about? Or maybe you're using a public network in a hotel or coffee shop. How do you keep others from seeing your browsing history or tracking what you're doing on the Web? When considering Web "privacy," there are two pieces that matter.

Our Alkaline Approach to Health and Diet: How Greens Drink and Water Ionizers that produce alkaline water affect the acid-alkaline balance of the body. OUR BODIES WERE DESIGNED TO BE HEALTHY, slender and energetic. We were intended to have smooth, supple skin and a quick, alert mind. Instead we are overweight, tired, and sluggish. WHY? An Alkaline Diet Based on The New Biology® Motivation: How To Get It And Maintain It with 33 Tips This post is available in audio format. Being motivated is a wonderful state of your being. In that state your body leverages huge amounts of energy. 25 Quotables from the 99% Conference In just a few weeks on May 3-4, 2012 in New York City, we’ll be presenting Behance’s fourth annual 99U Conference, two days fully focused on exploring the mechanics of making ideas happen. We’ve curated an incredible speaker lineup for 2012, and it’s going to be an absolute knockout event. For those of you who won’t be joining us live, we’ll be rolling out loads of awesome coverage during & afterwards, including a firehose of tweets from @99U, podcasts and stories from WNYC’s Radiolab, illustrations from Wendy MacNaughton, and, of course, videos of all the 20-minute speaker talks. In the meantime, we compiled a shortlist of quotables from the past three years’ worth of 99% Conferences to get into the idea execution spirit. “We’re not meant to operate like computers.

travel the world on a budget- fantastic links One of the things I am passionate about is travel and I try to travel overseas at least once a year to experience new cultures, absorb new visual influences and break out of the comfort zone we so easily slip into. When I talk to people back home about travelling one of the common things that crops up is that they would love to travel more but say they can’t afford it or think it will cost them lots of money. I try to encourage them by saying that they don’t need that much money these days to get away and it is quite easy to have an amazing trip on a very small budget by using travel services online as opposed to going through agents. These days the internet is changing the face of travel and is making it easier and easier to travel on a budget.

Ending "Business As Usual": 10 Insights on Rethinking Work When is a book not a book? When it’s a mechanism for change. That’s the conceit behind Michael Bungay Stanier’s recent release, End Malaria. From Seth Godin’s publishing imprint, The Domino Project, End Malaria inverts the idea of what a book is supposed to do (passively inform and educate) and turns it into a thing of action. By donating over 80% of its profits, the book directly facilitated the purchase of 25,000 mosquito nets to help end malaria – in just its first 48 hours of sales.

How Do I Find The Motivation To Get To The Next Stage Of My Career? The office can be an overwhelming and tricky landscape. To help you navigate the often uncertain terrain of work-life, we’ve tapped a panel of experts to answer your trickiest questions. In this new weekly series, we'll find answers to any dilemma you throw at us--from how to get people to notice your fledgling business to the best way to handle a difficult boss or ethical grey area and anything in between. Our first reader question is from R. Ale of San Francisco, and is answered by a psychologist and a leadership coach: Beyond the Comfort Zone Neale Donald Walsch said, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” That is SO true and SO important to remember. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, on the brink of a decision to throw yourself fully into the unknown, and let an open future with limitless possibilities carry you as you free fall. To change is to grow, and to grow is move beyond your comfort zone. In fact the only way to stay in the comfort zone is to live in the past because if you are truly engaging the present you realize that it is new and demands a new response from an ever evolving and new YOU.

Digital disruption: The Privacy Revolution and the Rise of the Personal Data Economy Amplify was founded to bring the edge of innovation and emerging trends that impact business, straight to you. So what is behind this behaviour shift? Consumers are waking up to some of the risks attached to the sharing of their personal information and online habits, and want to know: • What is happening to the data they share? • Who is using it? • How is it secured and safeguarded? Fan Power: Hunger Is Not a Game, Revisited Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. “The Hunger Games” film, which debuted just over a week ago, has exceeded all box office expectations, taking in nearly $200 million to date and making Lionsgate, its distributor, very happy. But it isn’t just the on screen battle that has caught the attention of fans. On Thursday, March 22, just one day after a column I wrote for Fixes on the surging strength of fan activism appeared here, Lionsgate contacted Oxfam requesting that they immediately remove any mention of Hunger Is Not a Game — Oxfam’s campaign to mobilize “Hunger Games” fans to learn about international food justice — from all of their Web sites because it was “causing damage to Lionsgate and our marketing efforts.”

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