Where’s Your Motivation?
How can you get through life without motivation? Could you ever finish anything without something gained at the end?
You want to motivate yourself. You have to figure out what motivates you most effectively. Or you want to motivate others. You have to figure out what motivates them most effectively. The University of Minnesota Career Center has a work values inventory that pinpoints eleven areas that can motivate:
- independence
- creativity
- challenge
- money
- self expression
- service to others
- power
- achievement
- recognition
- interpersonal relationships
- variety
Finding where your motivations lie for a particular task or goal makes you understand your reasons for succeeding.
If your motivation is money, then develop a scheme that affects your bankroll. If you’re trying to quit something, make sure you punish yourself monetarily for any lapses. If you’re motivated by recognition, then each attempt you make at getting your name out will be a small success in itself, building towards your larger goal.
Try putting these areas of motivation in order of importance. Prioritizing this list could be a shortcut to more effectively motivating yourself.
What’s The Motivation? – [DailyPlanIt]
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Dark Dante says on February 5th, 2007 at 9:23 am
We really need this list to find out what motivates us, who couldn’t figure out that money would motivate us anyway?
BillOGoods says on February 5th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Mostly money (or some equivalent “gain”) at most levels of human activity can be said to be, at least, “a” motivator, even if they deny it. Think about what you’ll do, or avoid, based on an income tax benefit. I think we know that.
At other “levels” where money isn’t at stake, at least directly, it’s difficult to understand what motivates ourselves, let alone others. One thing is probably true, though, and that is what actually drives others is usually not what they tell you drives them.
Assuming that’s true, it’s difficult to determine accurate motivators. I’ve had some success assuming motivators are among the most obvious: money, for sure, but also popularity and wanting to be “liked,” rarely fail as motivations somewhere in the foggy mix.
Leo says on February 6th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
It’s an interesting question, what motivates us. I’ve been posting about motivation (see Top 20 Motivation Hacks) on my site. I think it’s just a matter of finding what works for you, but it’ll probably take a lot of experimentation. Also see: Purpose Your Day: Most Important Task and 5 Ways GTD Helps You Achieve Your Goals.