Gillian Burn - Motivation for Dummies

Motivation For Dummies

by Gillian Burn

Motivation For Dummies

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About the Author

Gillian Burn is a health consultant, coach, and trainer. She specialises in enabling individuals and companies to improve their energy and personal effectiveness by focusing on enhancing health and quality of life. She is the editor of Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies and the author of two management pocketbooks the Energy and Well-Being Pocketbook and the NLP Pocketbook .

Gillians health career started in nursing, midwifery, and health visiting, alongside a period working with the Flying Doctor Service in the Australian outback. Her business career began with BUPA, a major health care company, designing programmes to improve health at work and reduce sickness absence. Gillians management experience covered sales, marketing, team management, and product design for health-at-work initiatives delivered to major organisations throughout the UK.

Gillian is director of her own company Health Circles Ltd providing a range of well-being and motivation initiatives for companies throughout the UK and Europe. Her training programmes include exercise, nutrition, stress and time management, communication, and creating peak energy. She also runs personal effectiveness courses, including mind mapping and speed reading.

Passionate about supporting people to boost their energy, creativeness, and motivation, Gillian believes that everyone has the skills and talent to make positive changes to enable them to reach their full potential and peak performance.

Authors Acknowledgments

Writing this book has given me the opportunity to put into practice all the tips, tools, and ideas I have believed in to keep me on track and maintain my own motivation.

To my family, clients, colleagues, Pilates students, and fellow trainers, thank you for your stories, anecdotes, inspiration, and support.

To the whole team at Wiley, including Sam, Wejdan, and Steve, who have kept me on track and provided gentle guidance and encouragement throughout the project.

To my partner John for his amazing encouragement to help me on the whole journey and for your patience for the hours I have been attached to the computer.

Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank my colleague Liz Harris, whose editorial advice and continual support has been tremendous and a wonderful guiding voice throughout the whole project.

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Introduction

M otivation is all about having the willpower to get started and once you get going it can direct your life in many ways. Its possible to feel more motivated at some stages of your life than at others, or that your motivation is being affected by other people and events around you. You may even be asking yourself how well motivated you are and whether you could be better!