Today is the Best Day

You miss a lot of life when you spend life living for yesterday and tomorrow but wish today will just hurry up and end. We need to enjoy today and make the best out of what we have, whatever our circumstances might be and wherever we are. Even in horrible circumstances we can choose our attitude and outlook.

If we strive to enjoy today, this doesn’t mean we forget the past and it doesn’t mean we don’t plan for the future. We can’t change the past and the future isn’t here yet but we can change the present. We can remember the past and hope for the future and in doing so change the present. It takes action now to decide you want to be better and then diligent work to make it happen.

What Motivates Us?

Motivation is an area that many researchers study: psychologists, marketers, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and just about any other field within the social sciences. Anything can motivate us – food, sex, sleep, rewards, pain – but what motivates us to perform better at work or in anything we do? This is the question addressed in the following video clip. This is one of the best introductions to motivation (especially as it applies to a business setting) that I’ve seen.