The Charge

Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

http://dbszabo1.deviantart.com/art/explosion-png-304309360

Did I Live?Did I Love?Did I Matter?

http://courtneey-brooke.deviantart.com/art/Sparks-Fly-255812247

Baseline Drives

CONTROLCOMPETENCECONGRUENCECARINGCONNECTION

5

Baseline Drives CONTROL

1. Control Your Outlook and Character

You cannot control everything in life. But you can control you – who you are being, how you are treating others, what purpose is driving you. (p. 43)

http://cloudkid.com/work/development/characters


2. Control for New

Setting your sights on enjoying new experiences regularly is one of the greatest ways to remain fully engaged, energized, and enthusiastic throughout your life time. (p. 47)

..neuroscientists have concluded that the brain is hardwired to seek and enjoy novelty and challenge. (p.46)

http://www.lizpryor.com/new-year-new-you-improve-your-decision-making-skills/


3. Control Workflow

Your level of engagement and enthusiasm will skyrocket when you decide to participate only in projects you can be fully invested in and be a part of from beginning to end. (p. 52)

http://mandymeimei.pixnet.net/blog/post/26866138-%5Btv%E6%8E%A8%E8%96%A6%5D%E2%98%85junior-masterchef-australia-season1%28%E5%B0%8F%E5%B0%8F%E5%BB%9A

Baseline Drives COMPETENCE

1. Assess and Direct Your Desire to Learn

The desire to learn and master our lives is critical to our confidence and happiness. If we approach learning with joy and enthusiasm, we tend to feel more confident and capable in life. (p. 63)

http://www.palabea.com/


2. Set a Real Challenges, Plan for Success and Get a Coach

A third party watching you is important to skill development because you can’t improve what you can’t see – when you‘re in the picture, you can’t see the frame. (p. 72)

Yes, life will throw many challenges at you, but you should give your self even more. I know that sounds counterintuitive. Most people are running from challenges in their lives, not chasng them. (p.71)

http://blog.drstankovich.com/5-tips-for-athletes-to-improve-chances-for-playing-time/


3. Integrate Successes into Your Identity

And if we don’t recognize what we’ve accomplished in life – even the small things – then we never feel accomplished. We don’t feel more competent, capable, and confident today than we did yesterday or the day before (p. 73)

http://www.careerealism.com/achieve-your-goals/

Baseline Drives CONGRUENCE

1. Set New Standards for Yourself

At some point in our conscious adult lives we have to face the uncomfortable reality that our self-image is and always has been chosen by no one other than ourselves. (p. 81)

http://cafodsouthwark.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/catholics-get-set-for-summer-2012/

Any influence from any time in our past may be convenient explanation for why we think and behave as we do today, but there is a vast difference between an explanation and an excuse


2. Set Your Mood Meter

I’ve found that the most important factors to mood are physical movement, sound or music, mental focus, social vibe, and future orientation. (p. 88)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k8oMPDC1LpE/TZ2W014ZRVI/AAAAAAAAACQ/YPySz3hMuhQ/s1600/2733-1600x1200.jpg


3. Keep Your Word and Follow Through

Words count. Words can inflict pain or inspire greatness. What becomes powerful is realizing that over time our words come to reflect who we are, and they either hurt or help the world. (p. 90)

http://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/12/word-yahtzee-wallpaper-world-of-3d-letter-dice/

Baseline Drives CARING

1. Care for Thyself

Before we can receive care from others or give it freely to them, we must be congruent with our own internal drive by first caring for ourselves. (p. 102)

http://www.high-resolution-wallpapers.com/fresh-juice-252818


2. Be More Vulnerable and Allow Others to Care for You

It’s been shown, for example, that if you grew up with attentive, attuned, and affectionate caregivers, then you tend to demonstrate those same qualities with others in your later life. (p. 106)

http://bharathipithan.blogspot.com/2011/04/wallpapers-mood.html


3. Be More Present, Interested, and Attentive to Others

There is an old saying: There are two kinds of people in the world - those who walk into a room and say,”Here I am!” and those who walk into a room and say,”Oh, there you are!”. (p. 109)

http://jakartagreater.com/orang-malaysia-lebih-bahagia-daripada-indonesia/

Baseline Drives CONNECTION

1. Define and Design Your Ideal Relationships

It’s such a simple thing: ask others what they desire from us in relationship, and share ours with them as well. (p. 122)

http://wakpaper.com/id96007/spongebob-and-patrick-wallpaper-manchester-united-for-1280x1024-pixel.html


2. Practice Positive Projection

One of the most powerful result of positive projection is that you stop seeing others as obstacles or competitors and instead see them as teammates or valued opponents on the road of life (p. 124)

http://www.gdefon.com/download/Hearts_positive_beads/324195/1920x1200


3. Find and Cultivate “Growth Friends”

Growth friend are the people you are actively going to engage with, grow with, and energize your life with. (p. 132)

http://www.moviezadda.com/hollywood/news/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides-review-for-the-pirateers-only/6151

ForwardDrives

CHANGECHALLENGECREATIVE EXPRESSIONCONTRIBUTIONCONSCIOUSNESS

5

http://www.quoteshdwallpapers.com/morning/dalai-lama/371/

Business

The Charge