Motivation Is More Than A Buzzword: Lessons From a Behavior Analyst
You Can Lead a Horse to Water… But You Can’t Make it Drink Recently at curaJOY we have been exploring the concept of “motivation” in our All Hands meetings. Our founder and CEO, Caitlyn Wang, brought up that it is often not enough to give people access to tools and resources and expect they will […]
4 Steps to Creating Success
At a recent holiday gathering, a family member said his son “must go to one of the top 10 schools” to do well and have options in life. Like many well-meaning parents, this dad arranged a robust early reading and math instruction regimen, enrichment activities, and daily homework to build discipline. I was asked to […]
Wield The Power of Discipline Toward Your Dreams
Have you ever envied anyone who has better grades, bigger house, more recognition, popularity.. and grumbled “Why did she get xxx and not me?!?*#” It’s easy to look at people who seem to have it all–beauty, fitness, great career, wealth, freedom and tell ourselves that it’s all luck. Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his bestseller book, […]
Don’t just talk a big game. Make it happen.
Imagine it was 1848, and you found the biggest gold mine, and told everyone about it. You were right—the motherload of gold was there, but you never carry through and took any action. Instead of living the rest of your life covered in gold, you watched people who heard about your discovery do the hard […]
What is MyCuraJOY?
MyCuraJOY is an incentive-tied, science-based gamified experience for personal growth that helps people as young as elementary school to set goals, track progress, review performance, think positively and live out their dreams. Personal goals are turned into quests at MyCuraJOY, and users benefit from all proven effective productivity and success methods automatically applied to their […]
Goal Setting Tools
Creating and setting goals is great, but actually achieving them can be much harder. Using the proven goal setting exercises discussed in this article can help you not only in setting an achievable goal, but also in the individual steps and processes needed to achieve it. The way we spend our lives, those seemingly small […]
Too Many Quests? Exercises For Elucidation
Studies have shown writing about positive life goals topics to be hugely beneficial for our well-being and help us achieve our goals, so take some time to explore your future self and what you want to accomplish with the exercises below. In 2001, King asked students to write about either a traumatic experience, their best […]
How Pursuing a Quest Can Bring Purpose to Your Life
In 2002, I walked into a cafe, laptop in hand, to begin a grand adventure. My adventure did not involve swords, dragons, or golden cups; it didn’t require me to hike the Appalachian trail or steer a boat solo across the world. All I had to do was sip a cappuccino and tap away at […]