Included on this page are the required and recommended resources for Motivate (Beta). While there were dozens of possibilities to be included here, engaging these resources will deepen your Motivate (Beta) experience.
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Required Tools
Everyone, including you, is gifted with innate talents.
Wouldn't you be more engaged, more productive, more fulfilled, and more powerful in everything you do if you could always operate from those innate talents? If you could really turn those talents into strengths, would it make a difference in helping you live your purpose everyday?
Yes you would and yes it can. But first you need to be clear about what your innate talents are and then get started into transforming them into strengths.
The StrengthsFinder 2.0 book that you can read in a day and use as a reference for a lifetime. If you embrace and act on what the assessment teaches you about yourself, it will be life changing.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows that have not recently taken this assessment will receive access to this tool for free as part of their experience. You can find the book with assessment online here or your local new bookstore. You can also choose to borrow the book without assessment from your local library, or purchase it from Half Price Books or another used book store. Finally, you can purchase access to the assessment without the book here.
Wouldn't you be more engaged, more productive, more fulfilled, and more powerful in everything you do if you could always operate from those innate talents? If you could really turn those talents into strengths, would it make a difference in helping you live your purpose everyday?
Yes you would and yes it can. But first you need to be clear about what your innate talents are and then get started into transforming them into strengths.
The StrengthsFinder 2.0 book that you can read in a day and use as a reference for a lifetime. If you embrace and act on what the assessment teaches you about yourself, it will be life changing.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows that have not recently taken this assessment will receive access to this tool for free as part of their experience. You can find the book with assessment online here or your local new bookstore. You can also choose to borrow the book without assessment from your local library, or purchase it from Half Price Books or another used book store. Finally, you can purchase access to the assessment without the book here.
Instead of "Find your edge. Win at work." the header of this book should be "Find your edge. Win at life.".
This new offering from one of the founders of the strengths movement will help you identify two "roles" you can leverage in every part of your life. This actionable tool will give you specific guidance on how to operate from your highest strength (or what should be your highest strength) everyday.
StandOut may surprise you, it will challenge you and, if you let, it will change what you think about yourself - for the better.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows will receive access to this tool for free as part of their experience. You can find the book with assessment online on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local new book store. You can also find an audio version with assessment on Audible. Finally, you can purchase access to the assessment without the book here.
This new offering from one of the founders of the strengths movement will help you identify two "roles" you can leverage in every part of your life. This actionable tool will give you specific guidance on how to operate from your highest strength (or what should be your highest strength) everyday.
StandOut may surprise you, it will challenge you and, if you let, it will change what you think about yourself - for the better.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows will receive access to this tool for free as part of their experience. You can find the book with assessment online on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local new book store. You can also find an audio version with assessment on Audible. Finally, you can purchase access to the assessment without the book here.
Business Model You: The One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career is a spin-off from the excellent organizational book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, Challengers.
This books combines its predecessor's simple and useful "business model canvas" with practical life planning tools. You learn a little more about this book by checking out 4 Things You Need for the Good Life.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows will use this tool to create an image of their current life, and then use this flexible tool to create potential models of their life when they are living their purpose everyday. This will give them a clear idea of where to start.
You can download the first 79 pages of this book for free at http://businessmodelyou.com/. Those first 79 pages explain the business model canvas and how to get started in using it to help you personally.
This books combines its predecessor's simple and useful "business model canvas" with practical life planning tools. You learn a little more about this book by checking out 4 Things You Need for the Good Life.
Motivate (Beta) Fellows will use this tool to create an image of their current life, and then use this flexible tool to create potential models of their life when they are living their purpose everyday. This will give them a clear idea of where to start.
You can download the first 79 pages of this book for free at http://businessmodelyou.com/. Those first 79 pages explain the business model canvas and how to get started in using it to help you personally.
More Tools
Below are two more useful, actionable, and accessible self-assessment tools. Unlike StrengthsFinder 2.0 and StandOut, which are positive and affirmative (they say "here is who you really are, and who you should be"), these tools identify weaknesses or areas that may be lacking in your life.
Recommended Reading
These books are full of both actionable ideas and relevant theory. You should engage these to further inspire yourself and gain a deeper understanding of the issues you are facing.
If you only read one book on this list, then you should read Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Spoiler: You are indispensable. You have a contribution for the world that only you can provide. Will you be brave enough share it? You can watch a video of the author discussing this book here. |
It is amazing how many people say they love everything about this book but fail to act on it. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and live your life accordingly.
You can learn more here. |
Written by a Harvard Business School Professor and his colleagues, How Will You Measure Your Life? applies organizational management theories to the common questions and struggles we all face.
You can learn more here. Before you jump into this one, check out this TEDx video of the primary author discussing this book here. |
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business has a chapter in that revolves around 6 questions that should be asked and answered about every organization. You should probably ask those same questions about yourself.
You can learn more here. |
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