Motivation Tool Chest

Personal Motivation Tools

Elements of Motivation

Education & Motivation

People who have a vision control their destiny and lifestyle. For people without a vision, their destiny and lifestyle is controlled by others.

Project Based Education. The right project can motivate anyone to excel.

Developing a productive lifestyle for at-risk youth.

My Quest for Jungle and Sea Adventure Lifestyle

The fulfillment of my dreams. It almost did not happen because I was living from payday to payday which made me a slave to my creditors. I took drastic action to change that.

Floating down the Amazon River by raft.

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Motivation in the Workplace

Visionary leadership that inspire and motivate, employees develop skills that create wealth for the organization and themselves.

21^st Century Workplace Leadership

• Top leadership is visionary with the ability to inspire and motivate. He sets an example of the leadership policies he wants the staff to follow.

• The workplace is a lifetime learning center, thereby, increasing the knowledge base of the organization.

• Leadership that inspires enhances employee decision making skills which creates wealth for the organization and themselves.

Priorities

There are three priorities, CHEAP, QUICK and GOOD. You can have any two.

• A good job quick - won't be cheap.
• A quick job cheap - won't be good.
• A good job cheap - won't be quick.

Note: A single priority increases efficiency.  At the other end, if all three elements have equal priority the results are reversed, low quality, high cost, and difficult to finish.  This is the result of rotating priorities, which means, no one knows what the goal is. Priority of the moment depends on current mood.

What is Your Leadership Style?

The below efficiency chart is based on leadership styles that inspire or kill creative thinking and the type of people that it will attract. Creative, innovative people are attracted to the upper levels. They like to brag about their contribution, therefore, leadership knows who is doing what. People at the lower level accept the status quo and are yes-people telling leadership what they want to hear. As a result, leadership does not know what is going on.

Leadership style in today's fastest growing organizations are at the upper level such as Google Inc.

High Efficiency

A feeling of job ownership and pride.

• Do it.
• Do it then tell me what you did.
• Tell me what you are going to do and do it.
• Tell me what you want to do and wait for a decision.
• Don't do anything without my approval.
• Don't do anything until I tell you.

Low Efficiency

Control leadership kills creativity, communications,  blocking the ability to recognize needs or opportunity.

Something to Think About

• The goal of education: Inspire a lifelong love-to-learn.
• Today's teenagers are being academically stuffed while being motivationally starved.
• Students are motivated when topics relate to personal interest.
• Personal interest is achieved with hands-on projects.
• If public education inspired students to develop a love-to-learn, society would have more innovators and less welfare.

Barriers

People seeking to excel have continuous barriers to overcome. People who flow with the crowd are not confronted with barriers, they take the path of least resistance. Very often these people fall into a pit. It takes more self-discipline to crawl out of a pit than it does to overcome barriers.  Maxing out credit cards is an example of a pit. Establishing a business is an example of overcoming barriers.

Barriers
Barriers are the result of a lack of experience, skills, or knowledge. To overcome them these issues must be addressed.

The Box
Inside the box represents the status quo, doing things the way they have always been done. Outside the box represents innovation, creativity, exploring ideas for a better way.

Overcoming Barriers
The Motivation Tool Chest website offers hundreds of ideas that will help overcome barriers.

Attach a Dream to Your Hero

• Everyone has a hero, but few attach a dream to them. Achievers have a dream with a hero that represents the person they want to be.
• People, who attach a dream to their hero, become achievers.
  People, who do not attach a dream to their hero, remain followers.

Opportunity is attracted to people with a dream. They are the first to be hired, first to be offered opportunity, and first to be promoted. Bigger the dream the faster doors open. People without a dream are last to be hired, last to be promoted, and first to be laid-off in a force reduction. For non-dreamers, doors remain closed. "WHY?" People with a dream act differently than non-dreamers, dreamers develop an attitude that radiates energy; they have a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives. Radiant energy is an attitude that bosses like and to which they offer opportunity. This is how the impossible becomes possible. Full text, my story.