Self-Awareness

Once you discover your Intrinsic Motivation and understand why you do what you do, you begin to see your world in a new way.  The following two statements characterize the value you will realize by leveraging your Intrinsic Motivation.

“To be the ‘best you can be’ always starts with ‘who you are meant to be’.”

“Be affirmed in who you are…and be free from the strain of trying to become who you aren’t.”

The Three Areas of Life That are Impacted:

1.  How You Work

You can map the type of work you best enjoy and will be most productive directly to your Intrinsic Motivation.  This work will provide the deepest sense of internal motivation.  Even if you do not have the perfect job, you can influence your level of satisfaction and success by making adjustments that will better align to how you are intrinsically motivated.  It also has the potential of helping identify any areas that generate the most drain at work by giving you a strategy that will help you address them in a constructive manner.

2.  How You Communicate

Your unique Intrinsic Motivation provides a natural filter for how you communicate to others as well as how other people hear what you communicate in return.  Many find that they communicate best with those who share a similar motivational mix and may not connect as well to those who share a different mix.  Awareness of how you are Intrinsically Motivated will help you understand why you communicate the way you do and better understand what other people are prone to hear and interpret from you.

3.  How We Collaborate

Collaboration involves both how we work and communicate together.  Effective collaboration around a shared purpose is a core competency required by organizations that need to solve complex issues.  These teams will find the most success when each member aligns their job or project responsibilities in a manner that are congruent to their Intrinsic Motivation.

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A more common desire is to improve our health.  “I need to get into shape, but ‘it’s’ tough” is the battle cry of countless people who continue to frequent artery clogging restaurants rather than heart pumping recreation.  Personally, I talk about Canadian helicopter ski trip with my family, yet I hear that famous quote from legendary ski filmmaker Warren Miller, “If you don’t do “it” this year, you’ll be a year older when you do.”

Motivation is another one of those words that we hear a lot about.  People spend millions of dollars each year in the pursuit of this elusive ideal.  The concept of “motivation’ has many definitions, more advocates, and even more products and promising to change one’s thinking, behavior, or attitude.  There are endless quotes that remind us to be motivated.  Today, I am staring at a quote by H. Norman Schwarzkopf.  “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

It is with the best intentions that people attempt to motivate themselves to improve some aspect of their life or the lives of another person.  Self-improvement is one of the basic urges of people.  There is an intrinsic motivation to become better at something that is important to them.  Total mastery is usually not practical, yet there is a lack of satisfaction with overall progress.

Over the past several years, the idea of living a life propelled by Intrinsic Motivation has taken on a special allure for me.  I have attempted to give it my personalized definition and project its benefits to every part of my life.  It has been a road of discovery and provocation, as I have had to come to grips with my own motivations.  For to be the ‘Best I can be’ I need to know ‘Who I am meant to be’.  The mission of the Intrinsic Motivation project is to do to the same for you…  To help you discover how you are Intrinsically Motivated so you can become your best.

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