{"id":5141,"date":"2023-04-04T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:14:31","slug":"motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems obvious that types of\nmotivation will differ across the population. Okay, I get that. You may be\nmotivated by time off. Someone else might be motivated by a larger salary. And\na third person might want a minimum salary with large bonus potential. In a\nsimilar manner, some will be motivated to change lifestyles so that they have\nless pain. Others will be motivated by the potential to live longer. Still\nothers will want to do whatever is least disruptive to the time they can spend\nwith family right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"motivation<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These sound like external\nmotivations. They are external motivators, dangling carrots that serve to spark\nmotivation, but the motivations themselves are internal. In other words, when\nyou look at the statements above, the desire to pursue a certain path comes\nfrom within. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching the NCAA basketball\ntournament this year, I wondered out loud about player behavior that didn\u2019t\nappear to help the player excel or the team win. A friend replied that the\nplayer wasn\u2019t motivated to hit the weight room and improve. Huh? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess in my frame of reference,\nif you are talented enough and have worked hard enough to be on the court at\nthat level, you\u2019re motivated to do your best at your chosen sport or you choose\nnot to participate in. It\u2019s a bit beyond me to understand showing up halfway,\nnot attempting to achieve the maximum of your ability, or do the best you can.\nI also don\u2019t understand not caring whether you help your team win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t grasp some\npeople have jobs feel trapped in or that poor leadership within an organization\nmight make you question whether your efforts are worth it. I understand and\nhave had those feelings. But for me, if I\u2019m not willing to improve to the best\nof my ability within a chosen sport, job, or portion of my life, I need to\nchange paths. If I take it on. I feel like I should fully show up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is only now beginning to creep\ninto my consciousness that some, maybe lots of, people do not function this\nway. Of course, I\u2019ve seen behavior that isn\u2019t like mine. And I\u2019ve sometimes\nfelt confused or frustrated when people I worked with skated by for years. At\nleast it seemed that way. Perhaps they were doing all they were capable of\ndoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we can\u2019t know anyone else\u2019s\ninternal workings, it\u2019s probably best not to judge whether someone else is\ndoing their best. But it seems that a broad understanding of how others are\nmotivated is important for developing approaches that can help all of us become\nour best, healthiest selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For people like me, you can\nchange the external reward and it will have little to no effect on our\nbehavior. I\u2019ll venture a guess that people with this bent are also similar in\nthat we can tolerate a high personal cost if we believe in our path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I need someone else to weigh\nin. I\u2019m not sure whether internal desire can be changed by external influences.\nPerhaps it can or perhaps it just looks that way because we imagine different\ngoals for people than those they would choose. Would they change paths if they\nhad more inspiration, education, or support? If they changed paths, would it\ntruly improve their lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights of fancy in this\ndirection always bring me back to thoughts of a parking lot security guard at a\nlocal restaurant I used to frequent. This man wore a uniform. He took his job\nseriously. He was clearly doing something he loved. He was content. And you\ncould feel it. He was the right guy with the right job leaning in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The security guard was well-known\nin the area. He was in a sweet spot I think we\u2019d all enjoy. I\u2019m just wondering what\nkind of motivation will get us all there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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