The Mightiest Motivator
by Mandy Evans
Defying the laws of gravity, they rise up to reach beyond everything they have ever known. Over and over they fall.
They rise up again. Eventually they conquer a brave new world.
They set no goals. They require no discipline, adhere to no schedule. Fear of failure, regret, guilt for not practicing enough-these strategies play no part in their game plan or ultimate success.
They are babies. Using the strongest motivation known to human kind, they master the art of walking. How? Why? With what motivation? he answer to all 3 questions is the same.
Desire-because they want to.
You want a master class in motivation? Watch babies. Every day they achieve something that was impossible the day before.
Yet all day every day intelligent, well educated people use everything but their natural desire to lead them to what they want. They use misery motivators instead. They withhold happiness from themselves, promising they will never feel good until they get that car or that job, or that first million dollars. They use guilt, regret, shame, anger, punishment, worry, fear and self-loathing to bash, beat and prod themselves and other people through life. Why? In order to achieve goals they hope will make them happy.
Misery motivators achieve miserable results. If that's not self-defeating, please tell me what is?
Desire is an important element in my books "Emotional
Options" and "Travelling Free: How to Recover From the Past
by Changing Your Beliefs." Desire is a strong focus of the
"BREAKOUT!" workshop. I even taught a five day seminar,
"Desire Marks the Path" in Holland and in Fairfield, IA. The
results people get when they turn their attention away from
what they are upset about toward what they would like to
welcome into their lives thrill me-and them.
Add some might and joy to your motivation. Visit
www.mandyevans.com for courses, free belief quizzes and the
free article "A Kinder from of Motivation" by Jeffrey Pease.
Here is an excerpt about motivation from "Emotional Options:
A Handbook for Happiness." Use it to motivate yourself like
a big baby.
We can divide the ways to motivate yourself and others into
two basic categories:
- Desire and Happiness
- Need and Un-happiness
Motivation with desire and happiness moves things about so
quickly that you may not notice it happening.
When we use desire for our motivation, the difference
between wanting and attachment becomes clear. Wanting is
moving toward and can include happiness. Attachment is often
static and requires the feelings of need and sometimes fear,
for our very survival. Attachment appears to connect us to
the object of our need-as if our fear, our sorrow, our
guilt, our experience of need, will bring it to us or keep
it escaping. But this does not work very well.
To believe that you need something requires, by definition,
that you also believe that you cannot be okay without that
something. It may be an experience that you believe you need
to have or a material object or goal to achieve.
In this need filled view of reality, if you do not get what
you want or reach your goal, that very not getting threatens
your well-being, your hopes for happiness, and your ability
to be okay. When you use "Need and Un-happiness" in order to
help yourself to get what you want, you live in that need
and un-happiness. That experience is life extinguishing. The
very thing you do to help yourself cripples you. It chokes
your life force and creativity.
In contrast, the experience of "Happiness and Desire" is
life enhancing. It allows happiness now. It fosters a sense
of being okay and feeling good. It simply acknowledges that
something more or something different would be welcome.
Years ago, I visited a garden with a statue of a
particularly jolly Buddha. Inscribed beneath it were the
words, "Misunderstood desire is the cause of all suffering."
Misunderstood desire. At last it made sense!
We have all heard the familiar quote, "Desire is the cause
of all suffering." I had often wondered how someone as wise
as Buddha could have thought that. How could desire ever
cause suffering? Attachment and "misunderstood desire" do
that. Perhaps some Puritan ethics got mixed up with Buddha's
wisdom.
Wanting something, coupled with the belief that you cannot
have it, or that you are foolish to want it, can cause some
powerful suffering. But not desire alone. Desire,
imagination, creation, anticipation-that stuff is all fun.
Desire functions as an inner sense of direction. It may be
all we will ever need to know to guide us through life-to
learn all that we need to know, to show up where we need to
be. At least I cannot think of a more reliable guide. What
else is there-someone else's desire? Somebody else's idea
about what you should do? Your desire, your awareness of
what you welcome offers the best compass for finding your
way through the mystery of life that I have found so far.
This system of navigation pretty much eliminates regret and
guilt. It also banishes the temptation to try to make anyone
else suffer.
When you follow your conscious desire as an inner sense of
direction, correcting your course as you go, all you have to
do when you want a change is ask yourself, "What do I
welcome now? Where shall I go from here?"
You can skip that part about feeling bad, worrying that you
will never change, blaming someone else for your
predicament. You can bypass the frantic search for a new
game plan before you even know what game you want to play.
From "Emotional Options" by Mandy Evans Ó 2004 Morgan James
Publishing
As my friend success coach, Michael Neill says in his
happily helpful book, "You Can Have What You Want"
**Happiness Leads to Success more often that success leads
to happiness.**
More info:
CARLSBAD, CA ( North San Diego County) -- The Life Works
Spiritual Center sponsors a BREAKOUT workshop on Saturday
August 4, from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Contact Reverend Dennis
Osgood for information at 760-845-7092.
It is a thrill to write "Reverend" Dennis Osgood. Dennis was
in my Option Method training group when I first moved to
California. He was, and is, the vice president of a
successful company but dreamed of some day becoming a
minister. I am donating this workshop to the new church with
joy and wishes for growth and great benefits for all who
attend.
To introduce the Spiritual Life Center to as many people as
possible the tuition will be ridiculously low, about $35.00.
PALM SPRINGS, CA -- I'm looking for an ideal space to hold a
BREAKOUT weekend in October. It will be limited to 40
participants. If you are interested send me an email from
www.MandyEvans.com and I will put you on the VIP preferred
list to be notified with details first.
Palm Springs is beautiful in October. Please come and enjoy
our special place on the planet for a few extra days for a
great vacation.
BLESSINGS -- If you want to add some pure delight to your
life, visit www.MayYouBeBlessed.com. Kate Nowak, the
blessings lady, embarks on a mighty project - to fill the
world with blessings. Imagine! A world filled with people
blessing one and other as she does. She is a miracle in our
time. Visit her site and share the blessings.
Wishing you mighty motivation, love, happiness and many
blessings.
Love,
Mandy
Copyright Mandy Evans 2007
Permission granted to reprint with author credit and website
link, www.MandyEvans.com
Speaker, Seminar Leader, Author of
Emotional Options: A Handbook for Happiness
Travelling Free: How to Recover from the Past
Cathedral City, CA 760-328-0858
www.MandyEvans.com
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