motivation (psychology)

Presents the things that everyone needs, as well as things some people want, and invites the reader to consider his or her own wants and needs.

A step-by-step guide to motivating reluctant learners, offering advice to educators on how to motivate students to invest in the classroom, create a classroom worth investing in, address the internal reasons why students resist investment, ask students to commit to the investment, and launch the new approach.

Explains how to change one's life, gaining time, money, and freedom, through changing the way one works, covering prioritizing, "training" one's boss to value performance over presence, finding a new career, creating automated cash-flow "muses," learning the difference between absolute and relative income, getting on a low-information diet, and other topics.

A guide to becoming happier and more successful discusses setting priorities, making life changes, improving and maintaing physical and mental health, recognizing and managing stress, hobbies, relationships, money, and work.

Jordan shares the rules he has lived and achieved by, shows how to set goals, overcome obstacles, confront fear, and explains the necessity of teamwork.

Skye Hamilton is invited to attend the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school, where she finds that anyone who is deemed a loser is subjected to humiliation and torment by their classmates and fears that she will soon become the target of their ridicule.

The Malloy girls and the Hatford boys continue to get in trouble as they try to outdo each other in bottle racing, spelling, and baseball.

Recommends a major change in the structure of teaching and in the role of the teacher through the implementation of learning-teams, a program, based on the control theory of human behavior, which is designed to significantly increase the number of students who are willing to work harder in school.

Argues that most people spend too much time trying to fix their weaknesses rather than concentrating on their strengths, shows how to identify personal strengths using the Internet-based StrengthsFinder Profile, and explains how to draw upon those strengths for personal development, as well as management and organizational success.

Presents strategies to motivate students to learn. Centered on mutual respect, collaboration, and commitment to learning, each strategy is described and illustrated by examples which can be used by educators for all ability and grade levels.