100 Ways To Motivate Yourself

When this book was first written (in 1995), the entire world was not yet living in cyberspace. The Internet was a relatively new idea, and very few of us knew how big a part of our lives it would become. As the new millennium dawned, a strange thing began to happen. People everywhere were writing again, just as people did in the 1800s when they took their quills out to write letters and diaries. The age of mind-numbing television viewing had been eclipsed by the age of chat rooms and e-mail. This wonderful evolutionary jump in civilization gave this little book that you are holding in your hands right now brand-new life. All of a sudden the fight for limited shelf space in bookstores was not as important to a book’s success. What became most important was the book’s word-of-mouth “buzz” over the Internet. Soon people were e-mailing other people about this book and the Internet bookstores (with infinite shelf space) were selling copies as fast as Career Press could print them. I began getting e-mails from readers as far away as Taiwan and Japan and as close as my computer screen