{"id":466,"date":"2008-10-11T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-10-11T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T11:54:56","slug":"motivation-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2008\/10\/motivation-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favourite blogs &#8211; <em>Zen Habits<\/em> &#8211; recently posted yet another gem, this time on <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/10\/the-only-two-secrets-to-motivating-yourself-youll-ever-need\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Only Two Secrets of Motivating Yourself You&#8217;ll Ever Need<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; The more I learn about it, the more I realize that motivation isn\u2019t that complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies I\u2019ve used with success. But it really all boils down to two things.<\/p>\n<p>And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) Make things enjoyable and 2) Use positive public pressure. But read on for more on how to use those two things to motivate yourself for any goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You really <em>should <\/em>take the time to go through the entire post.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll recognize much of yourself, and your friends &amp; family, in the examples and challenges written about.\u00a0 And, best of all, you&#8217;ll also find the solution to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Leo!\u00a0 I&#8217;m heading home with a print-out right now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favourite blogs &#8211; Zen Habits &#8211; recently posted yet another gem, this time on The Only Two Secrets of Motivating Yourself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}