"Instant Motivation: The surprising truth behind what really drives top performance" by state of mind and performance expert Chantal Burns uses ground-breaking, never-before-published research to debunk the biggest myth in business: that outside factors drive individual performance. The best-kept secret of consistent and top performance is really within us all, and this powerful, unique guide reveals how to achieve it
MOST business leaders will tell you that a motivated work force is the holy grail of company success. It is the key to personal achievement, growth and confidence and the foundation of professional reputation and performance.
Yet when it comes to achieving top performance day in, day out, few understand what really drives it. In fact, the majority of professionals mistakenly believe that they are not in control of how they feel or, their motivational drive and performance.
Instead, they believe that a good day at work is down to a range of external factors such as their journey to work, achieving a positive result in a task or getting praise, while a bad day is attributed to external forces outside the person’s control, such as stress, heavy workloads, tight deadlines, or poor management.
For all the millions of professionals out there locked in this mind-set, Instant Motivation: The surprising truth behind what really drives top performance will come as a breath of fresh air.
Being published in January 2015 by Pearson, the world’s leading education publisher, Instant Motivation is the first mass-market guide to understanding and mastering this vital state of mind. Across 224 pages it gives readers a practical life-changing and science-based way to understand their mind, shape the way they think and boost their performance to the highest-possible levels.
Author Chantal Burns, one of the UK’s leading experts in state of mind and performance and founder of Star Consultancy, has brought two decades of experience working with companies including ITV, Bounty, Bauer, IPC Media, BBC Worldwide, Aon, WPP, to provide the most credible, robust and powerful education available.
She has also shared for the first time the incredible findings of ground-breaking research into the attitudes of blue-chip CEOs, executives and workers to explode the mental myths surrounding motivation and reveal the surprising truth about how it really works.
This never-before-published research shows that contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of problems at work are ultimately ‘all in the mind’, and that our thoughts and perspectives are vital in governing motivation and must be better understood in order to thrive and achieve top performance.
Specifically, Burns reveals how state of mind is crucial for
- shaping and directing behaviours, actions and overall performance
- defining how you interact with yourself and others
- shaping how you prioritise what’s important in life
- determining the choices you make and whether you even believe you have a choice
It therefore debunks the common view that bad days at work are down to stress, worry, lack of support, workload, behaviour of others, lack of control, lack of time and other external factors.
It also busts the belief that stress, anxiety and worry are an inevitable part of a working life – a belief held by a staggering 76 per cent of people, according to Burns’s research.
In its place, Instant Motivation provides clear, simple and proven guidance that is powerful, practical and easily applied, with the result that workers at all levels will enjoy
- Easier, more collaborative working relationships
- Mental clarity (or clarity of thought) to do our best work
- Confidence to trust our instincts and make better decisions
- A stress-proof work life
- More fulfilment and happiness
- Increased productivity
This revolutionary new book, which is on track to be one of 2015’s personal development blockbusters, highlights how invisible state of mind is when it comes to the world of work and because of this, how most companies are wrongly investing and wasting money and resources due to their fundamental misunderstanding about what drives success.
Burns said: “Organisations spend millions of pounds developing people’s skills and capabilities and combating stress, when they should be putting more investment into state of mind, attitude and mind-set.
“My unique research clearly demonstrates that a person’s state of mind and attitude has the most leverage on a person’s performance and yet it's a huge blind spot for most people. By clearing up this misunderstanding, a lot of the problems people are dealing with at work are instantly resolved.”
Whether read for professional or personal development, Instant Motivation will finally provide the key to unlocking the mind and achieving your best.
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"Instant Motivation: The surprising truth behind what really drives top performance" by Chantal Burns is published by Pearson, priced £12.99. Visit www.starconsultancy.com
