What’s your motivation?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Bill O’Hanlon’s Four Motivators. He believes there are four things that motivate people to take action in their lives, whether they’re taking action to improve a relationship, a career, or anything else in their lives that they want to change or fix.
The four motivators are (in Bill O’Hanlon’s phrasing): blissed, blessed, dissed, and pissed!
I’ll describe the first two here, and the second two in another posting.
Blissed: this means that when you’re doing something new in your life, or taking action, or volunteering, or taking a career risk, you’re doing it because you’re “blissed out” while you do it. If someone loves to be an actor, say, they’ll audition for acting jobs and work hard at it because they just feel great while they’re doing it. They’re “following their bliss,” as the bumper sticker says.
Blessed: this is when people take action in their life out of deep gratitude for some blessing they’ve received. Someone might say, “I was so inspired by my favorite teacher in high school that I decided to go into teaching myself.” Or they say, “I have so much in my life, so many gifts, such abundance, that I just have to give back, and that’s why I volunteer so much of my time.”
So here are the questions: what blisses you out? And who or what has been a blessing for you? Think about your answers to these questions. This might help you figure out what will motivate you to make changes in the here-and-now of your life.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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