Information about site author Luc Reid is below. Information about guest posters is usually included in their posts.

This is a site that shares information about research, techniques, and insight into self-motivation. I welcome comments, questions, and suggestions for topics. My goal is to provide a site that helps both myself and my readers learn and make powerful use of research and insights into self-motivation, to make major positive impacts in our own lives. Much of the material on this blog touches on subjects in my current book in progress, which you may not be surprised to find out is called The Willpower Engine.

A word about self-motivation as I treat it on this site: The Willpower Engine is about understanding the mechanics, techniques, and steps involved in self-motivation. You won’t find inspiration here of the kind that a motivational speaker or personal story sometimes provides unless some specific, usable knowledge is included. That is, the goal here isn’t to get people excited, but to help us understand ourselves better.

Motivating others is a bit of a different topic than motivating ourselves, and so this site doesn’t really delve into that a whole lot.

My relationship with self-motivation is learning and writing, so while I’ve done some coaching and writing on the subject, I’m much more of a communicator or fellow learner than a guru. Certainly I haven’t perfected self-motivation in my own life, although I’ve been making great use of a lot of my findings so far.

I’m (among other things) a writer living in Vermont with my 13-year-old son. I’ve been reading, researching, and writing about cognitive psychology, positive psychology, strengths psychology, nonviolent communication, cooperative living, consensus decision-making, and other topics having to do with personal and community growth for more than ten years now.

Most of my published work so far, however, is on other subjects. I’m a Writers of the Future winner; a former radio commentator for Jacksonville, Florida NPR affiliate WJCT; the founder of Codex, an energetic, online, neopro writers’ group; a founding member of the Daily Cabal, a site where we have been posting one extremely short story every weekday for more than two years; and the author of Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures, which was featured on BoingBoing and the NPR program Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me . My writing Web site is at http://www.lucreid.com , and my writing blog is at http://reidwrite.livejournal.com .

I’m happy to consider suggestions for guest posting–either your guest post here, if you’re someone who has some helpful information or life experience having to do with self-motivation, or my guest post on your blog.

Work by Luc Reid on this site can be reused for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. There are more details at http://www.willpowerengine.com/?p=464 . Please note that photos are generally not by Luc and therefore may be subject to different rights.

Author photos by Keyna Houston.