The 5 Best Books on Self-Motivation Learning & Achieving Goals: Risk Instead of Dreaming {reading tip}

If you want to be successful, you have to take risks and overcome fears. But there are many myths about positive thinking.

Of myths and difficulties

We should think positively, always believe in ourselves, confident - then success will come all by itself. Nonsense, says Gabriele Oettingen - and explains in her book why that is.

The good news is: Gabriele Oettingen has a convincing answer for everyone who has always wondered why positive thinking doesn't work for you: because positive thinking alone doesn't achieve anything. It's better not to just imagine achieving your goal Eyes but also to consciously deal with the difficulties that can arise.

WOOP instead of positive cars

Paint them Future colorful and concrete, concentrate fully on that positive Result, then it is guaranteed to work with losing weight (alternatively: not smoking, career leap, change of partner). Perhaps you have already heard or read such motivational sayings.

Because they are part of the regular repertoire of many trainers and therapists. The psychologist Gabriele Oettingen thinks nothing of it. In her book Die Psychology of success, she refutes the equation dreaming = guarantor for positive change easily and explains what actually helps.

Mental contrasting is better than dreaming

In fact, according to the author, the visualization of barriers and problems on the long path to the desired success is an essential motivating factor. Mere dreaming rather prevents us from realizing our dreams and desires.

Instead, it helps to look at the internal obstacles at the same time. This path is called mental contrasting. And, as Oettingen shows on the basis of numerous studies, it is successful in all areas of everyday life, in which Motivation and perseverance are required: in changing diet, fighting addiction, in school Education and also in career planning.

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The WOOP effect

The WOOP-Concept derived. A simple and highly effective model for Peoplewho yearn for change and not halfway through ways want to give up.

WOOP stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. In German: desire, result, obstacle and plan. Based on these four steps, according to the psychologist, realistic scenarios can be played through and answers can be given very early on about later ones Problems find so as not to lose sight of the goal verlieren.

Without detours to the destination

In her book, Oettingen uses WOOP as an example in three areas: living healthier, improving relationships and am Workplace afford more. The descriptions are successful blueprints for your own personal change requests.

Do you finally want to lose weight? Don't buy another diet book, let alone a guide in the self-help corner. With her book The Psychology of Success, Oettingen brings you straight to your goal. Of course, this also applies to everyone else Setthat you have only dreamed of up until now, such as career advancements, a new partnership or the end of your nicotine days. Suggestions!

Long-term goals instead of short-term happiness

Finally a book that encourages you to take the job - instead of, as many guidebooks proclaim, sometimes fast to quit and set up their own shop - because many people only realize how difficult that is when they do Money runs out So it's finally Monday again.

More fun at work, more drive for your everyday life Tasks – you can have that too. You do not need a new post for this. It is enough if you set yourself meaningful personal goals instead of chasing after short-term positive feelings of happiness, Christiane Nill-Theobald promises in her book Endlich wieder Montag.

Between burn-out and leisure company

A motivational guide with a variety of reflective exercises and personality tests for self-location in the Stress– and performance scales. With references to psychological and sociological research results. In addition, a fine processing of the working model in the dichotomy between Burnout-Danger and Leisure Society.

Of course, Nill-Theobald sees employers and Companys in the mandatory, to create employee-friendly jobs and to put familiar hierarchies and communication processes to the test.

First of all, however, employees can and should exercise their obligation to deliver. Satisfaction management is a shared task.

Lust resources can be activated

Nill-Theobald makes you numerous offers in Endlich wieder Montag to reactivate your desire factors and desire resources. Self-development is an important criterion for this, as is playing off one's own abilities and passions Power of we-feeling in the workplace: There are many different ways to stop seeing the approaching Monday as the biggest enemy of the weekdays.

The author provides many arguments for this. Not doing different things, but doing things differently is the key to more satisfaction and personal fulfillment in the workplace. Christiane Nill-Theobald helps you with your personal work frustration in Finally Monday Again clear to eliminate and more fun in the professional Everyday life bring to.

Fancy learning

Learn and Further Training are topics that are still neglected in Germany, especially when it comes to yours Significance for the success of companies. That is why we are presenting a book on the subject of New Learning to you today – a dialogue between brain researcher Gerald Hüther and Peter Endres, ex-Executive of occupational insurance.

Peter M. Endres is the guy from the TVAdvertising, which always runs shortly before 8 in the first – right after the weather. He was the head of Ergo Insurance. and Gerald Hüther is a brain researcher. Neither of them are education experts by nature. Nevertheless, they convey a desire to learn in their book. more fresh Background on the topics of learning and (training) education and motivation than a large part of the educators at the blackboard or the HR managers in the meeting room.

Way with the synthetic islamic knowledge

With their personal experience of victories and defeats (Company founded and failed terrifically) and a whole range of unused ideas, Endres and Hüther appeal to teachers, bosses and team leaders with a desire to learn, not to label the people on the other side by means of superficial tests and evaluations.

It is much more important to recognize social competency, to promote motivation, and to convey knowledge in a holistic approach: no one needs synthetic islamic knowledge.

Not what is possible, but what is still possible

The ability to resolve conflicts at work, to put oneself in the shoes of others or one's own creativity steering them in the right direction, on the other hand, does. Unfortunately, the instructions for this are in (almost) no textbook.

The Ergo-Man and the neurobiologist pass the balls and arguments to each other in the form of a dialogue. Sometimes in a tongue-in-cheek controversy (are you personally past puberty?), then again in mutual agreement they develop the ideal of a willing to learn Society (we are less interested in what is already working well than what is still possible).

Fixed learning concepts are a discontinued model

In any case, they are unanimous in the fact that the learning concept screwed into the schools is an obsolete model:

What counts are good grades for cramming in as little time as possible. Today's students will hardly find themselves in the Welt of tomorrow when they have learned nothing more than greed for notes.

How can operational learning work?

Business learning, according to the consensus, needs open channels, in which prejudices are corrected and old mistakes can be replaced by new experiences.

One possibility for this are mixed teams of old and young, whereby an experience space would have to be created for the younger ones, in which multigenerational encounters and the transfer of experiences are made possible and experienced as positive.

Leaders must be courageous

It also includes questioning encrusted structures, the ability to Criticism to express and endure. But how do you turn chickens into eagles when they're only ever in the chicken yard?

With Courage! And it has to be exemplified. Not from Lieschen Müller from the post office, but preferably from the director and his management team.Endres: Curiosity breeds courage.

Convincing appeal to the corporate culture

courage reduced Anxiety. Fear is one of the greatest deterrents in society Economy. This book definitely arouses curiosity about new learning experiences and practices!

In their joint book Lernlust. Peter M. Endres and Gerald Hüther deliver an enjoyable, intelligent exchange of blows on the subject of learning and support. All in all, a convincing appeal for a corporate culture that resonates with the old Regulate and must break conventions in order to gain knowledge and potential Employees optimal use.

Targeted taking risks for the career

Have you ever had one spontaneously in the pedestrian zone? Rede held or asked people for money? Then this book could change your life. Because it brings you completely new perspectives.

Anyone who does something new always goes down with it Risks a. Therefore, the unusual-sounding tips from Business-Experts Alexander Verweyen, with whom you are encouraged, for example, to give a speech in the pedestrian zone (if possible with a megaphone!), meant quite seriously:

With his book, Verweyen gives his readers completely new ideas for better things merchandise, present, motivate, communicate, negotiate and eight other key topics of business. He focuses twelve topics on a single topic. On courage. And he shows courage pays off in his book. 12 tests of courage for business, how to become more successful and better. By becoming more courageous and doing a few things differently from the others.

Throw the Knigge overboard!

Verweyen brushes the main business issues against the grain. Shows that all marketing theory stays gray if it only imitates what others are showing. That you only notice who does things differently. And to do things differently, Verweyen throws it first Knigge and Co in a high arc overboard.

Anyone who wants to stand out (and that means to get ahead in business personally or with the company) must also have the courage to be embarrassed. Because fearful rabbits have never been noticed. Those who lean a little too far out of the window one time or another are remembered.

Courage to embarrassment

The author shows that everything can be done differently by encouraging real tests of courage in this book. Class Idea and a great tool to learn how light you can leave well-trodden paths. Would you like an example?

  Contact Approach a celebrity and ask them for a message... for a child, a business partner, someone celebrating an anniversary. And to make the whole thing fun, Alexander Verweyen offers three levels of difficulty:

1. They are satisfied with the local prospicacy.
2. They address national heavyweights.
3. They're going to hit Angelina Jolie or Bill Clinton right away.

Discover new territory in a playful way

A book that playfully guides you to discover new territory. In addition, a lot of good input for the speech that sticks, for sales talks that yield something and motivational kicks that act.

Those who follow these rules and pass the test of courage will suddenly discover completely new levers for professional and personal success.

Handbrake off and off the mail

You can do anything you want is the attitude in our society. Does that actually work? To find out, today I am going to discuss the great book of self sabotage-Techniques Mindfuck. The author is Petra Bock, winner of the Coaching Award 2012. Your book was named Coaching Book of the Year by Coaching today. Reason enough to take a closer look at it.

At a time when all doors seem to be open, the responsibility lies with the individual. It is not the union that ensures the plus on the salary account, but the bold approach to the manager. And those who still tread water don't bother with the supposedly bad chances on the job market, nor with their uneducated parents, but instead solve the inner ones blockages. Petra Bock now provides instructions on how to get started in her brilliant self-coaching book Mind-Fuck.

What prevents you from achieving your goals

The book falls on fertile ground, because life today no longer means just somehow getting through. Those who realize themselves can be satisfied. And so it is no longer a matter of serving your time in a bank or smiling your way through the day as a bakery saleswoman.

The bar is higher, it's about the writer or the diving instructor in the Maldives. Why not. What prevents you from achieving your goals is therefore the standard question from the coach. The answer is clear: you yourself.

Dangers lurk everywhere

Petra Bock draws on the full and links the beliefs that are central to neurolinguistic programming (NLP) with transaction analysis and Timothy Gallwey's inner game concept. The result is the Mindfucks, so named by Petra Bock, as she provocatively calls the techniques of self-sabotage.

She has worked on exactly seven such techniques over many years Training identified. All cause us to cling to the bad present instead of heading towards the brighter future:

Learn the script of life

One can argue about the instructions that Petra Bock gives in her book to overcome these mindfucks. After all, these are also fundamental personality dispositions that, if one follows brain researchers like Gerhard Roth, do not leave much room for change.

But there is no doubt that these techniques of self-sabotage exist - a brief digression into one's own behavior will suffice as proof. And if you don't manage to completely rewrite your own screenplay, it's extremely usefulto at least know it.

The trap: who does not make it is your own fault?

Mindfuck provides a good diagnosis of self-sabotage techniques. The book thus helps to conquer new fields of thought and action.

At the same time, however, Petra Bock is building a fatal trap. Because the back of the medal You can do it is labeled with your own fault - which is sure to cause plenty of new mindfuck.

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