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What are you motivated by?
Fear, Reward, Duty, Love
Motivation has four states: fear, reward, duty and love.
You can be in one or more states at any time. Motivation shows up in your whole body as feelings and sensations. It then moves into the world as your actions. Magic happens when you turn motivation to purpose. It happens when you accept and appreciate sensations. When you connect the inner and outer worlds. And when you follow through with them until completion. I view motivation states as four interconnected pieces of the same puzzle. To be successful at what you do, you need each type to some extent at different times.
The reason many fail is because they limit themselves to only one type. Motivation can come from fear, such as fear of failure, fear of hunger, fear of loss or fear of missing out. It can come from reward, money, recognition, praise or awards. It can come from duty, knowing your place in the universe and acting on that basis. Finally, it can come from love, knowing that you, what you do and your place in the world are in total harmony. To know that these are different ways of looking at the same element: life.
Being motivated by either fear or reward alone is a limiting factor. It will not allow realisation of full potential.
