The Best Guide to Motivation Author:Jean Marie Stine No matter what your goal is or what your abilities are, motivation is absolutely essential - without it dreams will always remain just dreams. In The Best Guide to Motivation you will discover how to inspire yourself and others with over one hundred classic, time-tested, "in the trenches" motivational techniques, secrets, and principles. ... more »Beyond that, you will learn to use the five essential mental tools of self-transformation: visualization, affirmation, self-talk, positive thinking, and self-hypnosis. The reader will begin a comprehensive tour through the vast array of motivation schools and teachers. The Best Guide to Motivation compares and cross-references all the significant theories of motivation and influential thinkers. It's all there - TM, Dianetics, Mesmer's concept of auto-suggestion, Einstein on the importance of play, Jack Lalanne's strategy for success, and Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics. Master the nine key principles of motivation: clarifying your goals, being a doer, fearlessness, believing in yourself, taking responsibility, generating enthusiasm, persistence, bouncing back from setbacks, and crossing the finish line. The Best Guide to Motivation doesn't stop at explaining theories or ideas, it gives the reader the inside track on how to get the most from, and avoid the pitfalls of, motivational lectures, seminars, workshops, courses, and programs.« less