Help – I have just had a fantastic week BUT … I now need motivation to write this blog. Why is this? I should be able to do it: I am a published author – and my friend, the Great Neil Moodley, tells me I should do it. The Great Mooders has even pointed me to a wonderful blog that tells me how to do it –
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-sample-blogging-workflow/ – read that, very good. And yet …
This technology in this modern world – how do I get motivated? I am the Creative Director of two companies, Motivational Maps Ltd and Motivational Mentoring Ltd, so motivation should not be that difficult. Perhaps I need to go back to the basics of what we believe motivation is, and ask you whether you agree.
My take is this: motivation comes from three major sources within us. First, there is a sort of historical or genetic component of motivation that we understand or classify as our personality. Different personalities are motivated differently – no revelation there; and when we break the personality down to the four major types that underpin most systems we find there is a specific motivation at the heart of each one.
One take on this would be: four motivations – control, recognition, belonging, and accuracy. Not much to change since personality tends to stay the constant, but then again if I focus on my profile and consider ‘recognition’ is what my type wants, then may be if this blog could achieve that I would feel more motivated to do it.
Second, in driving motivation, is our self-concept. This has three components including self esteem, self image and the ideal self. Fundamentally, how we think and feel about ourselves either produces or stifles our energy and desire to do anything. What am I thinking and feeling about blogging? Fear – new technology – what fear? That I cannot handle it in the way I handle a book? Is that it?
Finally, third, is expectations: what I believe about future outcomes. of course, if I believe that blogging is going to create a wonderful result for me, then my motivation increases. So, my best bet might be to do my searches on line, and find excellent examples of those people who have blogged and got results. This would encourage me to blog – to write this blog now. Are there such examples?
Who then has achieved recognition and other good outcomes from blogging and gone on to be even more motivated to blog? Let me have your stories please, so that I can continue – motivated!
May the One be with you. Speak next time.
The Mapping Motivation Series 