A man with black hair, wearing a gray collared shirt, khaki pants and grayish brown shoes, closes his eyes and opens his mouth to cry, left hand rubs his left eye while weeping
How do you react to the title of this chapter? If you react at all negatively at the thought
that it advocates fulfilling your wants, it is a good indication that the natural motivation of
your internal child has been buried at least to some extent under a pile of internal
parental “ought to’s.” As seen in the previous chapter, the child voice speaks in terms
of “what is” while the parent speaks in terms of “what ought to be.”
I encourage you to silence the internal parent during the reading of this chapter so that
the child’s voice can be heard. Internal motivation and newfound enthusiasm will occur
as the child discovers again the path that will lead him/her to what s/he truly wants to
do.
A study of very successfully motivated people has produced the chart on the following
page.
The chart summarizes the four commonalities of those successfully motivated people.
First. . . the upper lefthand quadrant indicates that these people worked in their area of
Passion. What would you do if money was no object? What do you enjoy doing as a
hobby? Truly successful people have found ways of incorporating their areas of
passion into their work.
Secondly, the upper righthand quadrant has to do with Talent. No one can get very
motivated about working in an area in which they don’t have talent. This is a very
difficult area in which to self-assess. A good question in that quadrant is “what have
others told you you’re good at?
In helping you identify talents, you might take a moment to look at the following list of
words and just circle the one(s) that you like to do:
administering counselling exploring instructing
analyzing deciding filing inventing
auditing diagnosing gathering leading
collaborating exhibiting inspiring monitoring
nurturing negotiating selling thinking
painting recruiting sharing troubleshooting
photographing rehabilitating speaking tutoring
planting reporting summarizing writing
predicting researching systematizing promoting
restoring resolving tabulating supervising
If you like to do it, there’s a very good chance that you’re good at it.
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