The Mirror Of Motivation: Techniques To Get The Best Out Of You, When All You Have To Depend On Is You by Dre Baldwin

by Dre Baldwin

"[Dre's] audience has grown tremendously, and he’s been able to build a significant business... I think there are quite a few takeaways - One of those lessons is consistency – producing great content on a regular basis is a big reason for Dre’s success." - Niche Pursuits"I’ll open with an I am not a fan of motivational writing or motivational videos or any of those damned cliched motivational quotations.Have you ever been really hungry for food and drank a glass of water? I have. Water is good for me, but it kind of makes me mad at that moment because it’s the last thing I want when I’m hungry for food. That’s how I feel when reading or listening to the tried-and-true motivational sayings that we all know.So the first thought I had when creating The Mirror of Motivation was to make sure that this book was devoid of all of that cookie-cutter rah-rah s**t."This is not a how-to book. I have never believed that getting people to change their behaviors permanently can come from telling someone to "Do this, that, and this." Permanent change takes place when a person has their beliefs changed through their own thinking and experience. Telling someone to change how they think, is ineffective in the long run -- they may agree for the moment and even understand on the surface, but people will only change their beliefs and actions when they tell themselves to, not when they are told to. This book is not a tell- me-what-to-do book. This book will place you, mentally, in a space where you will look at yourself, your thoughts and actions and decide what the difference is between where/who/what you are and where/who/what you want to be.Then you will stop reading, thinking and talking, and go f****** do it.So this book will ask you many questions. Questions that I am not asking you for answers to -- the answers are for you to tell yourself, and no one else. The answers to the questions asked of you in this book are designed to make you think about what you do and why you do it, what you think, why you think it and how those thoughts drive your (in)actions. Be honest with yourself -- this is a Mirror, after all. Mirrors never lie. If you don’t like what you see in a mirror, there is no one to blame and no rationalizing. If you don’t like your answers, start by changing your thoughts. This will lead to a change in actions and overall qualitative change in your life. What that change will be, is your choice.Personal Drive. Motivation. Inspiration.You've probably watched videos, purchased books, and heard lectures in your lifetime with the aim of acquiring those internal attributes. Yet you still don't have them at the proper levels.Why? Because they don't come from other people. They are acquired only from looking in the Mirror.I wrote The Mirror Of Motivation to move you to action for yourself -- to jump out of bed in the morning, driven and inspired to do what you want and need to do, to the point that others are inspired by seeing or even hearing about your story.No book -- The Mirror Of Motivation or any other --can enact change in your life. Only YOU can do that. This book will hold the Mirror up to you so you can start making it happen.That's all there is to it.Here goes.

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First published July 13, 2013

Reviews

[Adakin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Took me years to finish lol

Prolly my own fault but he repeats himself often. He does this in his YT channel too.

Still love your work DRE.