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Motivation? No thanks…
Just the other day my son Tom, aged 8 1/2, was listening to my current ‘son, this is how it is lecture’ that I find myself issuing on occasions.
He listened quietly, half turned his head to look at me and spoke – “Dad. you’ve got really intense, today… maybe you should lighten up?”
Well, sometimes we need to hear it don’t we? He was spot on and my thinking had got heavy over the past few days and then this morning walking back from school it was as if the fog had cleared and inside my head just feels still and is very quiet… so I thought I’d write
Earlier this week I was having a follow up conversation with a prospect business client around doing some work for them in two key areas – the first was to support the development of the new Managing Director and the second was around the area of team engagement and motivation in selling.
As part of our discussions I asked him the ‘magic wand’ question with regard to staff motivation and his answer went something along the lines of this:
“Dave, I’d love for you to come in and spend a couple of hours with the team and get them really revved up so that they just want to get out there and sell…”
Now this has been very much part of what I do, but of late I’ve started to get some new insights in what I need to be clear on with clients before making agreements and starting working together and I’d like to share those with you today.
If you have been to see the great Tony Robbins speak you will know that he can get a massive crowd ‘revved’ up like no one else I’ve ever seen – the atmosphere is almost hazy with adrenalin and people literally go wild during the events.
For a while, that was where i wanted to be, getting people to such a point whereby they ‘believe’ that they can make any change in their lives and ‘do’ or ‘be’ anything they desire.
Well, the truth is that Tony and the mass of others that follow that lineage have got it wrong!
As I sit writing to you now, my mind is like still water, clear, calm and I am able to write to you from deep inside myself, connected… I know that some of you will read this and gain some insight for yourselves and many will chuckle at the idea that I think Tony Robbins got it wrong.
The truth is that when we are connected to who we really are and speaking from the quiet place of authenticity, some folks will agree and others won’t… and I know that neither has any impact on my wellbeing whatsoever. So I can write carefully, safe in the knowledge that I’m ok no matter what – ‘inside out’.
So back to my new client and what I needed to share with him. We could indeed get the team ”revved’ up for the match but in all probability that would fade quite quickly and beyond it would lie a possible ‘low’ where that high once was. But there is a more powerful way…
We could start the team on a journey around what ‘motivation’ really is and where it comes from and how when our thoughts are quiet, we are able to tap in to our ‘Innate power’ – an infinite source, sounding good?
You know how it is when you take a shower, or mow the lawn or walk the dog or go for a run and suddenly you get clarity and a solution to something that may have been bugging you for ages? That place.
And in that place, there is no revved up thinking and the concept of leaping around in a haze while a giant of a man claps his enormous hands would seem really rather strange (and of course the intention he has is good and from innocence)..
The place of innate power is where you are when you are at peace, quiet and calm inside and truly you – at this place you can serve, sell, speak, write, guide… easily and effortlessly from the inside out and you know this for sure, 100%.
Motivation, getting revved up are temporary fixes, nothing more, nothing less and your inner wisdom guides you to this truth. Your Innate Power is permanent, always on and has no conditions and requires nothing to be done to get it.
Are you ready to develop your Innate Power? Have a great weekend!
Just the other day my son Tom, aged 8 1/2, was listening to my current ‘son, this is how it is lecture’ that I find myself issuing on occasions.
He listened quietly, half turned his head to look at me and spoke – “Dad. you’ve got really intense, today… maybe you should lighten up?”
Well, sometimes we need to hear it don’t we? He was spot on and my thinking had got heavy over the past few days and then this morning walking back from school it was as if the fog had cleared and inside my head just feels still and is very quiet… so I thought I’d write
Earlier this week I was having a follow up conversation with a prospect business client around doing some work for them in two key areas – the first was to support the development of the new Managing Director and the second was around the area of team engagement and motivation in selling.
As part of our discussions I asked him the ‘magic wand’ question with regard to staff motivation and his answer went something along the lines of this:
“Dave, I’d love for you to come in and spend a couple of hours with the team and get them really revved up so that they just want to get out there and sell…”
Now this has been very much part of what I do, but of late I’ve started to get some new insights in what I need to be clear on with clients before making agreements and starting working together and I’d like to share those with you today.
If you have been to see the great Tony Robbins speak you will know that he can get a massive crowd ‘revved’ up like no one else I’ve ever seen – the atmosphere is almost hazy with adrenalin and people literally go wild during the events.
For a while, that was where i wanted to be, getting people to such a point whereby they ‘believe’ that they can make any change in their lives and ‘do’ or ‘be’ anything they desire.
Well, the truth is that Tony and the mass of others that follow that lineage have got it wrong!
As I sit writing to you now, my mind is like still water, clear, calm and I am able to write to you from deep inside myself, connected… I know that some of you will read this and gain some insight for yourselves and many will chuckle at the idea that I think Tony Robbins got it wrong.
The truth is that when we are connected to who we really are and speaking from the quiet place of authenticity, some folks will agree and others won’t… and I know that neither has any impact on my wellbeing whatsoever. So I can write carefully, safe in the knowledge that I’m ok no matter what – ‘inside out’.
So back to my new client and what I needed to share with him. We could indeed get the team ”revved’ up for the match but in all probability that would fade quite quickly and beyond it would lie a possible ‘low’ where that high once was. But there is a more powerful way…
We could start the team on a journey around what ‘motivation’ really is and where it comes from and how when our thoughts are quiet, we are able to tap in to our ‘Innate power’ – an infinite source, sounding good?
You know how it is when you take a shower, or mow the lawn or walk the dog or go for a run and suddenly you get clarity and a solution to something that may have been bugging you for ages? That place.
And in that place, there is no revved up thinking and the concept of leaping around in a haze while a giant of a man claps his enormous hands would seem really rather strange (and of course the intention he has is good and from innocence)..
The place of innate power is where you are when you are at peace, quiet and calm inside and truly you – at this place you can serve, sell, speak, write, guide… easily and effortlessly from the inside out and you know this for sure, 100%.
Motivation, getting revved up are temporary fixes, nothing more, nothing less and your inner wisdom guides you to this truth. Your Innate Power is permanent, always on and has no conditions and requires nothing to be done to get it.
Are you ready to develop your Innate Power? Have a great weekend!