Is Motivation Truly Motivation

All of us are born with motivation. It’s embedded within us. In fact, all of us have our own unique style of motivation and are driven by it each day. However, pop-psychology along with the sales training industry has decide for us what motivation is and have done so based upon their own biased research. We’ve all paid a price for the confusion, but employees and their managers more so. The reason, managers expect that these emotional seminars to create long term life changes within their employees. These seminars are expensive and generate temporary results. What they have done is confused enthusiasm for motivation. So what is enthusiasm?

Enthusiasm is defined as fervor, zeal, explosive eagerness, rapturous intensity, and intense conviction or worthiness. It is a temporary emotion. Temporary in the sense that it can only be sustained for a brief period of time until it is either replaced by another emotion or a sustained feeling. (See the article: “The Difference Between Emotions and Feelings” for more info.) Think about how long a person can sustain laughter, or how long it last when a person “Flips out”? How long can you cry? How long can you sustain being excited or thrilled?

That is why you can go to any number of so called “motivational seminars” get really “pumped” only to have that enthusiasm and energy fade away after just a few days. A form of social hysteria is what you’re really experiencing at such seminars, albeit in a positive form but never the less very transient.”Enthusiasm Seminars” would be the correct name for these types of events.

Employee Motivation

One of the main areas where motivation becomes a subject of contention and confusion is the workplace. It begins with the gross profit numbers. When profits are down, the company usually looks for an internal cause. Upper management is told to shape up and puts pressure on middle management to make changes who then leans on lower management to shape up who in turn beats up the employees to find some “Motivation!”.The solution? A motivational (enthusiasm) seminar or program to get everyone excited and hopefully an increase in profits.

And because of that, motivation is managed as if it were a learned skill of “doing”(See the article: “What is Motivation” for a more in depth discussion of true motivation). However, with such training, a downward spiral soon begins that is fraught with confusion, distress, and self sabotage. As explained earlier, programs such as an “Motivational (Enthusiasm) Seminars” have only temporary effects. You can only sustain your enthusiasm for just so long. Inevitability your enthusiasm wanes. When this occurs you’ll generally ask yourself: “What’s wrong with me?” Doubt, and a lack of confidence follows and the stress builds. Does this sound familiar to you? Understand that there is nothing wrong with you and there is nothing to fix. You are actually behaving normally. The issue resides within our societies less than accurate comprehension of what motivation truly is. Motivation can not be a learned skill. It is naturally present. It is the expression of your state of “being”. Natural motivation is what compels you to get out of bed each morning. It is a propelling need to express individual existence to the world.

Anyone who teaches motivation as a “learned skill of doing,” exhibits their lack of knowledge on the basic functions of motivation. This is the reason why so many people are confused about motivation and why pop-psychology continues to design inherently flawed testing methods, books, seminars, and workshops which sadly point people down the wrong path. Having said that, some people will still find value in these materials but usually as a catalyst unique to them.

Westernized cultures (Particularly Americans), live in a capitalistic society that cannot afford to define motivation as simply a state of “being”. That is why Motivational Gurus, do not use Mother Teresa as an example of what it means to be motivated even though she is a fine example of natural, authentic motivation. From their viewpoint, there is no profit in using her as an example motivation.

The Solution to Employee Motivation in the Workplace

The solution to employee motivation in the workplace is natural and always effective. If you like what you do for work, it’s unnecessary to seek out motivation because it is already present. If any professional feels the need to attend a “Motivational Seminar,” they should seriously consider another profession. Imagine for a moment that your surgeon is running late to your pre-surgery consultation because he or she has yet to return from a “motivational seminar”. How might you feel? What might you choose to do? Would you still take a chance~Would you still go through with the surgery with this person at the helm}?

Motivation comes naturally to each of us from a deep level within. No one needs to “Go Out” and discover their motivation. Your motivation is not somewhere out there, it’s intrinsic, It’s within you. Ask yourself why plumbers, carpenters, electricians, doctors, computer technicians, and in fact most professionals do not have a desperate need to attend motivational seminars in order to get fired up to do their job.

The real secret to all this, is to discover the exact style of motivation you already posses. We call this “Your Life Theme“. It is as if, you were given a unique set of prescription glasses through which you see a reality all your own. It is this prescription which dictates how you should live life and what career you should pursue. Discovering it and learning how it guides you is vital in creating meaningful, sustainable change in your personal and business life.

It is through discovering who employees are at their very core that management will be able to generate natural and effective motivation in the workplace. Managers who discover their “Life Theme” as well as that of their employees, are capable of building dynamic, highly productive and profitable teams where everyone has a greater sense of fulfillment and sustained cooperation. Management will also know which projects should be delegated to which individuals in order to attain the highest level of productivity. Each person will be able to maximize their self-expression with each project, completely by-passing the typical, costly debating and negotiating process. Say goodbye to ego-battles that cause so much struggle and slow everything down. This is the future of business. Discover Your Life Theme.

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