What Is Intrinsic Motivation?
By Janet Schlarbaum | December 10, 2008
By: Ray Andrew
Posted by: Janet Schlarbaum Pennsylvania
There are two kinds of motivation extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. The first one is used with incentives and the second one is a real self motivation. Intrinsic motivation is more effective in the long term because it means that the person has a real interest in doing something he likes.
Usually we see that most people try to motivate others with rewards and incentives to achieve a goal, however most of the times is creates short term results because the person has no real interest in doing that.
For example, a student that has to pass a test, will be motivated by the grade, however he has no real interest in learning the topic so once he has achieved his goal he wont have anymore interest in learning more about the topic.
On the other hand, a student that wants to study a topic because he likes it and he thinks that is something valuable for his life, will be much more motivated and achieve better grades. This is called intrinsic motivation.
To create intrinsic motivation in a person you have to make him engage in the topic or action, you need to let him know why it will benefit him and how is going to improve his life however. Intrinsic motivation has to come from the inside out of the person, is difficult to create in someone else because he needs to have that real interest - you can’t force him.
If a teacher wants to create real interest in students he needs to engage them in the topic by creating an environment of interactivity and live case studies, the students need to perceive the topic as interesting and useful in their lives.
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Motivation Tips
By Janet Schlarbaum | December 9, 2008
By: Richard Romando
Posted by: Janet Schlarbaum, Pennsylvania
Motivation tips play a very important role in helping people boost their level of motivation. They are tested methods that have proved relatively useful over a period of time. These tips have been designed on a step-by-step basis to gradually increase a person’s level of motivation. Various schools of thought have promoted different motivation tips based of a number of theories. These tips have greatly helped people achieve their goals and objectives.
People looking to motivate themselves or their team members should decide on their goals and get them down in writing. In order to get properly motivated people should know what their goals are. After getting their goals set, people should plan short-, medium-, and long-term goals. The goals chosen need to be practical and attainable. The goals set should not be so high that they prove to be out of reach. Goals should be written down and should be placed in a spot where they are clearly visible.
People should not let themselves or their team members’ feelings get in the way of achieving their motivation. It is generally seen that when people mix up their feeling with their goals their motivation levels tend to drop. It is also seen that procrastination kills motivation. However, procrastination can be overcome with a clear and structured schedule. Whether people are working on their own or in a team, they should not let themselves be overwhelmed by the number of things they have to do. They should manage and complete each task before moving on to the next one.
Rewards and incentives play an extremely important role in motivating people. A reward or a pat on the back for a job well done helps in boosting an individual’s or team’s level of motivation. Similarly, a person or team trying to achieve an aim or objective should enjoy the task or job to be completed. Lack of enjoyment or fun may make the achievement of the objective a long and arduous task.
Motivation tips and strategies can also be obtained online through a number of websites providing information on the same.
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3 Simple Brilliant Steps to Motivate Your Self Within Seconds
By Janet Schlarbaum | December 5, 2008
By Lemy Yusento
Yes, I know what you think. We can’t just flip that way and still many negative thoughts keep coming to us.
Let me tell you this. I love simple things, cause simple things make things to be complex. Imagine that the digital world consists only two digit, but look at what it can do. Computers, software, multimedia, even we fly human to the moon using computer’s help.
So, what’s the simple steps to motivate ourselves quickly? Even in seconds we can do it.
Here They Are:
FIRST - When you’re trapped in the situation that you don’t want, calm yourself down first. Then, Think what’s exactly you really want to that situation as if it hasn’t been occurred.
SECOND - Believe as it (the situation) is already happening as you’d want. Imagine that it’s all happening exactly the same as you think in your mind.
THIRD - Feel happy about it. Because feeling happy tells that everything is happening as you want to. Everything is ok, great. How to feel happy immediately?
Here’s two suggestions:
1. Play your favourite music, and just enjoy it.
2. Think about anything, anyone at the past that make you feel funny about it.
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How to Get Motivated and Start Living
By Janet Schlarbaum | December 3, 2008
By Jacky Tustain
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Feeling Overwhelmed?
One of the key reasons motivation can dry up is the sheer amount of work you may have to do. Juggling work and home, children and your relationship as well as trying to find time for yourself can leave you feeling either in a whirl or exhausted.
This can lead to poor sleep, further tiredness and an increasing loss of motivation. “Where should I start?” is often the question you will find yourself asking in this situation.
The first thing you need to do is accept that you will need to take a long hard look at your life. Are you using your time wisely and efficiently? Are you doing things that you could delegate to others? Are you doing things that you should drop? Have you started projects that you will never finish?
Goals and Priorities
It is important that you decide what your goals and priorities are first. Consider the analogy of clearing out a cupboard. The first thing you decide on before filling it is what is the cupboard for? What is its purpose? This cupboard is like your life. What are you trying to achieve? What do you want to fill your life with? These are your goals and priorities.
Once you have decided this you then need to examine everything that was in the cupboard, which relate to the things you spend your time doing, and choose between 3 options:
1. Keep
2. Give away
3. Bin it
What you keep in your life are the important things to you and what you value most. Things given away are delegated tasks to others and the binned ones are those things that you really don’t want to do any more and have no need to continue.
Procrastination
If you clear out the unnecessary and unwanted tasks from your life you should feel a lot lighter. Clarifying what you want out of life and what is most important to you will help you to see what you need to focus on.
But what about the things you have to do that you don’t want to? What about the things you keep putting off?
Procrastination is a classic sign of poor motivation and can waste a lot of time. Think about something you constantly procrastinate about - phone calls, making appointments, filing paperwork.
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When Playing BIG, Old Stuff Will Come Up
By Janet Schlarbaum | December 2, 2008
By Fabienne Fredrickson
Many people have massive doubt about their ability to do something really big in this world, including myself up until very recently. They wonder whether they have what it takes or whether they’re “good enough.” And last week, we talked about taking the great leap of faith, really expanding our vision of what’s possible for our business, for our clients and for ourselves, and ‘Going BIG or Going HOME’.
Now… that’s all well and good, but what about ALL the emotions that arise when you take a great big leap of faith and step into your purpose? No one ever prepares us for that and it can be an uncomfortable process. You see, when you decide to step into your future in a BIG way, unexpected internal stuff comes up, even stuff you thought you’d ALREADY dealt with.
I’m going through this myself right now. You see, BEFORE we make a decision to go BIG, we have to get over our fear of failing miserably. But once we’ve actually made the decision to play a bigger game, then it makes way for lots of other feelings to come up.
As I get ready to launch a new division of my company, along with a new branding, I was surprised to see lots of “old stuff” come up, despite all the mindset work I’ve done. I want to share some of it with you too, because as YOU begin to recognize your potential for magnificence in business and otherwise, and then act upon it, stuff might come up for you too (in fact, it inevitably will).
Here’s a snapshot of what came up for me:
“Will they really want what I’m going to be offering?”
“Perhaps I should just keep doing what I’ve been doing for years. At least I know I’m good at that.”
“Maybe I shouldn’t ‘break what ain’t broke’; I mean, I’m doing really well now, why rock the boat?”
“What if I fail and humiliate myself in front of thousands of people. It’s not worth it.”
“What if they reject my new idea, my new company?”
“Can I really be THIS big?”
“Do I really have it within me to DO this?”
“I’m scared.”
Just telling you about what came up for me these past couple of weeks makes me feel icky inside. But here’s what I also observed. When you break it down, there really are only 2 emotions in the world: Love and Fear. And there are origins for each of those emotions.
Love comes from your higher self, Spirit, Universe, God (whatever you want to call it.) Love is safe, there is trust there, it’s synonymous with Faith. And when you have faith, you cannot express fear. They cannot exist in the same place. And your source WANTS you to grow, to be bigger, to dare to dream an even bigger dream. In fact, Spirit is always championing you to get to the next level, if you’ll just get out of the way.
Fear, on the other hand, comes from the ego. And the ego only wants to keep you small, to keep you “safe” by slowing down your progress, by stopping you, by keeping you under its thumb. This is the only way that your ego can survive, and it’s by controlling you and keeping you down. Yuck.
Now, go back up to the list of things I was thinking and feeling and review them. You’ll see that every one of them is based in fear. Which means that each of them is ego-driven.
But here’s what you must know: fear doesn’t really exist! Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. And it’s a bunch of nonsense, if you’re willing to look beyond the fear as just a protection mechanism to keep you small. Who wants to be bullied by some little creepy ego to stay small anyway? Not me!
So if you can recognize that what you’re experiencing or feeling is NOT REAL, then it cannot have a hold on you. And that’s what I recognized this week. And I chose to go for it anyway. I hope you will too.
Your Assignment:
Notice what thoughts and emotions come up as you make a commitment to walk boldly into the next step in your business and purpose for being self-employed. Make a list. Write them down. Then, as you read your list, in the margin, I’d like you to label that emotion. 1) Love, or 2) Fear. Which is it based on? I’ll bet just about anything that it’s based on fear.
When you recognize this, you can choose to stay in fear or recognize that you are being “played” by your ego and that it doesn’t actually exist. That all this is fake. And you can choose to act in spite of what’s come up for you.
Listen, let’s admit that this will probably happen a lot more in the beginning. But when you see this happen over and over again, and you recognize it, the hold the ego has on you will begin to diminish considerably. (It already has with me.)
Now, imagine yourself standing at the doorway of your BIG vision and future. You’ve got your hand on the doorknob. You’re ready to step in but you hear “voices” behind you begging you to play small and stay safe. Inside though, you know that these are all smoke and mirrors, that they’re not real.
You have two options: 1) Walk through the door anyway, because you have no choice but to be your best self and stop playing a mediocre game. Or 2) Stay small because of fear, living a beige existence for the rest of your life. You choose.
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