What Motivates You?
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2009
by Sean M Kelly
Dare to Dream
About ten years ago I was delivering a workshop to an advertising/marketing company on how to use more of your minds potential. Basically their business was creating adverts for their clients. During lunch I asked the Managing Director how do you aim to motivate people to buy what your adverts are sellling? "Thats easy!" he said, "all our adverts use fear, greed and insecurity to sell products!".
The Native Americans say before making decisions we should consider the affect on seven generations - three previous, the current generation and three future generations. If the decision/action doesent benefit these seven generations we should consider another way forward. Now look back on your own life. Ask yourself what were some of the best decisions you made? What motivated you to make those decisions? Perhaps a decision to be with your children more. Perhaps a decision to contribute more to your business/workplace? Perhaps a decision to exercise and/or invest regularly? Can you recall three real life enhacing decisions and the qualities which motivated you? How have these decisions benfitted you and others? What was the long term affect of such decisions?
Some higher motivating qualities are: contribution, abundance, sharing, peace, health/fitness, compassion, loyalty, community, prosperity, joy. Why not leave a comment below with some of the higher human qualities you feel motivate us. I'd love to hear your stories and I'm sure others who read this blog would too.
Of course the highest quality of all is Love. On September 12th 2001, six years ago now, Neale Donald Walshe, American author, in a letter on the internet responding to what happened on 9/11, asked what I believe to be the most important question we could ever ask ourselves: "What would Love do now?"
If in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the world responded to this question, rather than to "fear, greed and insecurity" there is no doubt that this world of ours would be a far more loving, sharing and secure place, in particular for our fellow worldly citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq."Oh but that had nothing to do with me" we might say. It has everything to do with us all. It is time for us all to ask ourselves - "What would Love do now?".
Why not when faced with a decision this week, big or small, ask yourself the question "What would Love do now"? Forgive your brother! Call your long lost friend! Let those close to you know how much better your life is because they are in it. Give something away with absolutely no conditions on getting anything in return and give something that isent easy for you to give! If a critical mass of people on our planet (about 11%) base their decisions on the question "What would Love do now", then maybe for the first time in human history we will realise the true meaning of "heaven on earth"!
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