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    Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP: A Watt Works Consulting eBook
    Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP: A Watt Works Consulting eBook
    Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP: A Watt Works Consulting eBook
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    Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP: A Watt Works Consulting eBook

    By Damian Hamill

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    Conventionally motivation is thought of as something that is created by exciting pep talks or by the promise of material rewards. More recent research suggests, however, that such approaches may have the opposite effect of what was intended and that there is no "one size fits all" approach to motivation.

    In this eBook, Damian Hamill takes an NLP systemic approach to motivation and presents a model that suggests motivation emerges when we are aligned with whatever it is we are seeking to achieve. A lack of motivation, he suggests, may be a very useful way of communicating that what we are planning to do conflicts with something that is important to us.

    Damian guides the listener through a process to explore, appreciate, and, if appropriate, resolve such conflicts, enabling a greater degree of motivation to naturally evolve as a result.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456610418
    Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP: A Watt Works Consulting eBook

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      Introduction

      Hello and welcome to this eBook on the subject of Mastering Motivation: Motivating Yourself and Others With NLP.

      For some time now I have been interested in the concept of motivation and how we can access it more consistently. Equally, I am interested in how an absence of motivation – the times when we expect or desire it to be present and it just isn’t - can be a very powerful message, if only we have the skills to receive and understand it. If that sounds a little off the wall, please bear with me and I hope it will become a little clearer.

      I think it is fair to say that although there may be a great variety of things that people want to get motivated to do – every one of us wants to be able to become motivated for one purpose or another. Human beings tend to be action-oriented creatures. We don’t just sit and vegetate - or at least not all of the time anyway.

      Most people have a range of things that we could do. Those that tend to claim our time, resources and energy are those that we might say we are motivated to achieve. Equally, there tend to be some things that we know we ‘should’ do – there are good logical reasons for it – but for some mysterious reason motivation doesn’t seem to rear its head to spur us on. Why? Well, I hope in this eBook to give you some answers to that very reasonable question.

      Section 1 – Motivation: Why it Matters and What it Looks Like

      You may be reading this eBook for a number of reasons. Perhaps you are an individual who wants to be able to get more motivated to do stuff generally. It may be that there is a particular task or project or opportunity at hand that you want to increase your motivation levels to achieve.

      Alternatively, you may be interested in discovering skills to motivate others – as a manager, parent, coach, team leader, HR professional or the like. Whatever your interest, I believe that this eBook will give you a new way to understand motivation and a structure to explore and evolve some of the factors that we believe are critical in appreciating this precious state.

      Yes, you read that correctly. I described motivation as a ‘precious state’.

      I say this for two reasons – firstly because motivation is, in my opinion, precious – it is of enormous value when used correctly. In a moment, we will look at some research that confirms this.

      Secondly, I describe it as a ‘state’ as it is an experience, or an awareness of oneself at a particular point in time. When we use the word ‘motivation’ we talk about it as a ‘thing’ – something that can simply be bought, or collected or manufactured like some sort of commodity. I want to encourage you instead to think of motivation as an experience or awareness that emerges for a person or group when the correct conditions are present. It cannot be reliably bought, bullied, seduced or otherwise coerced into existence. Later on we will be exploring what those conditions for the spontaneous and natural emergence of motivation may be.

      But first of all – why is motivation important?

      Well, at a very personal level, motivation feels good. It is enjoyable to experience the energy, the congruence, the flow and the commitment that we have when we are motivated to do something. It’s generally, not always, a pleasant state to be in. We feel alive, invigorated and more fully human.

      The more cynical might say:

      So what? That all sounds a bit ‘New Agey’, ambiguous or fluffy to me. People in a work environment, for example, are paid to be there, to do a job and that should be all the motivation they need. If they feel good, that’s a bonus, but no-one is entitled to more than a day’s pay for a day’s work.

      We would suggest that such a perspective is perhaps not the full picture and certainly isn’t going to bring out the best in people. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that, contrary to what many people perceive, in many circumstances financial rewards simply do not work as the sole means of motivating people – indeed they may have the opposite effect. Motivation is a much more complicated phenomenon and understanding it well, rather than relying on corralling a bunch of paid recruits, pays clear dividends at the bottom line.

      In 2007/08 the consultancy firm, Towers Perrin, carried out a study looking at 90,000 staff in companies in 18 countries around the world. Their research concluded that on average:

      • 20% of staff in any company were what they termed ‘Fully Engaged’ – that is not only doing their job but doing it willingly, happily, with commitment and ready to go the extra mile.

      • 40% of staff were what they termed ‘Enrolled’ – that is they did their job perfectly adequately

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