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Motivation Monday
I f you follow any of the popular business social media channels such as Twitter, LinkedIn, or even Facebook, you’ll see lots of people posting about #motivation and #motivationmonday. It seems everyone is either an expert on motivation or someone who needs motivating. “Satisfaction with the status quo leads to complacency. Complacency is the enemy of motivation.”
articles like this have achieved a certain amount of material success. We are likely employed, either in a business of our creation, or in a good, clean white collar job in a successful enterprise or institution where we earn an above-average income. We have nice houses or apartments to live in with unlimited clean running water and good heat and air conditioning that works instantly. We may even have house cleaners that come in every “Motivation comes from dissatisfaction with your current state. If you aren’t dissatisfied in some way, you won’t be motivated to do anything differently.”
Mark Zweig
Motivation comes from dissatisfaction with your current state. If you aren’t dissatisfied in some way, you won’t be motivated to do anything differently. It’s like being diagnosed with high cholesterol. Human nature being what it is, most people don’t change their diet for fear of the future diagnosis. They change it because of the current diagnosis. In other words, only when the problem is right there do they get the motivation to do something about it. Human beings clearly aren’t very good at looking down the road at what problems COULD develop. We tend to only deal with the stuff that is right there in front of us now. The problem is that the motivation to do something different may come too late to really create a different circumstance and solve the problem. Most of us who are sitting around reading
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