ISBN: 9798182495585 - the oar and the wind: on moving when you do not feel like it (6 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - You don't lack motivation. You've just been waiting for it to arrive in the wrong order.You've been told that motivation is a feeling - an inner wind that comes, lifts you, and carries you toward the things you mean to do. So you wait to feel ready, wait to feel like it, wait for the wind to rise before you'll set out. And you've noticed, with a quiet shame, that the wind so rarely comes when it's wanted - and concluded that the people who accomplish things must simply have more of it than you do.In The Oar and the Wind, Dr. Shibu Valsalan offers a quiet correction that changes everything: motivation does not come before action and produce it. It comes after action, and is produced by it. You do not wait to feel like rowing and then row. You row - and the wanting arrives somewhere around the third or fourth stroke, generated by the rowing itself.Motivation is the wind: welcome when it blows, but fickle, unbiddable, and fatal to depend on. Action is the oar: always in your hands, indifferent to how you feel, and - this is the part almost no one believes until they try it - capable of generating its own wind.Drawing on a working lifetime among people becalmed on the calm sea of their own lives, Valsalan will not try to make you feel more motivated. He thinks chasing the feeling is the whole error. Instead, he teaches you to row: - Take the smallest possible stroke - shrink the action until refusing it becomes absurd- Master the cold start, the paper-thin wall that's dreadful to approach and nothing to pass through- Build a cadence you can keep on your worst day, not your best- Show up badly, and let the faithful poor days count- Survive the storm of resistance, the long flat middle, and the drift back into stillness- Take the return stroke without penance when you inevitably lapse- And discover the joy hidden in the stroke itself - the thing that turns a discipline into a loveThis is not a book about feeling ready. It's about learning to move when you don't - to begin from the cold and the stillness, and to build a rhythm that no longer depends on the weather of your moods.Set down the hope of a fair wind. Take up the oar. The crossing is yours, and it begins with the next stroke.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You don't lack motivation. You've just been waiting for it to arrive in the wrong order.You've been told that motivation is a feeling - an inner wind that comes, lifts you, and carries you toward the things you mean to do. So you wait to feel ready, wait to feel like it, wait for the wind to rise before you'll set out. And you've noticed, with a quiet shame, that the wind so rarely comes when it's wanted - and concluded that the people who accomplish things must simply have more of it than you do.In The Oar and the Wind, Dr. Shibu Valsalan offers a quiet correction that changes everything: motivation does not come before action and produce it. It comes after action, and is produced by it. You do not wait to feel like rowing and then row. You row - and the wanting arrives somewhere around the third or fourth stroke, generated by the rowing itself.Motivation is the wind: welcome when it blows, but fickle, unbiddable, and fatal to depend on. Action is the oar: always in your hands, indifferent to how you feel, and - this is the part almost no one believes until they try it - capable of generating its own wind.Drawing on a working lifetime among people becalmed on the calm sea of their own lives, Valsalan will not try to make you feel more motivated. He thinks chasing the feeling is the whole error. Instead, he teaches you to row: Take the smallest possible stroke - shrink the action until refusing it becomes absurdMaster the cold start, the paper-thin wall that's dreadful to approach and nothing to pass throughBuild a cadence you can keep on your worst day, not your bestShow up badly, and let the faithful poor days countSurvive the storm of resistance, the long flat middle, and the drift back into stillnessTake the return stroke without penance when you inevitably lapseAnd discover the joy hidden in the stroke itself - the thing that turns a discipline into a loveThis is not a book about feeling ready. It's about learning to move when you don't - to begin from the cold and the stillness, and to build a rhythm that no longer depends on the weather of your moods.Set down the hope of a fair wind. Take up the oar. The crossing is yours, and it begins with the next stroke. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You don't lack motivation. You've just been waiting for it to arrive in the wrong order.You've been told that motivation is a feeling - an inner wind that comes, lifts you, and carries you toward the things you mean to do. So you wait to feel ready, wait to feel like it, wait for the wind to rise before you'll set out. And you've noticed, with a quiet shame, that the wind so rarely comes when it's wanted - and concluded that the people who accomplish things must simply have more of it than you do.In The Oar and the Wind, Dr. Shibu Valsalan offers a quiet correction that changes everything: motivation does not come before action and produce it. It comes after action, and is produced by it. You do not wait to feel like rowing and then row. You row - and the wanting arrives somewhere around the third or fourth stroke, generated by the rowing itself.Motivation is the wind: welcome when it blows, but fickle, unbiddable, and fatal to depend on. Action is the oar: always in your hands, indifferent to how you feel, and - this is the part almost no one believes until they try it - capable of generating its own wind.Drawing on a working lifetime among people becalmed on the calm sea of their own lives, Valsalan will not try to make you feel more motivated. He thinks chasing the feeling is the whole error. Instead, he teaches you to row: Take the smallest possible stroke - shrink the action until refusing it becomes absurdMaster the cold start, the paper-thin wall that's dreadful to approach and nothing to pass throughBuild a cadence you can keep on your worst day, not your bestShow up badly, and let the faithful poor days countSurvive the storm of resistance, the long flat middle, and the drift back into stillnessTake the return stroke without penance when you inevitably lapseAnd discover the joy hidden in the stroke itself - the thing that turns a discipline into a loveThis is not a book about feeling ready. It's about learning to move when you don't - to begin from the cold and the stillness, and to build a rhythm that no longer depends on the weather of your moods.Set down the hope of a fair wind. Take up the oar. The crossing is yours, and it begins with the next stroke. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…