Seeds XI, 43
Seed: Motivation
When I used to give motivational speeches in corporate settings, the first thing I said to everyone was that I couldn’t motivate them. The presenters always looked askance at me when I said this, but it’s true. No one can motivate anyone else. Ever.
Here’s why: motivation is an inside job. Only you can know what will motivate you, and it’s quite literally unique to each person.
I love what Denis Waitley says about motivation. “Motivation is a contraction of motive and action. Just so you know, this is not what the OED says, but never mind.
Motive + Action = Motivation
Maybe I ought to change it to Motivaction!
(There’s a new word!)
Think on this. Every action has a motive. You’re thirsty, you go to the sink for a drink of water. You want a raise. You go to your boss and ask for one.
It’s worth examining our motivations for things especially for those I don’t wanna days. Just remember that even if you can’t get in touch with your motive momentarily, you can always take action and let your motive catch up to you.
Be joy,
Susan Corso
Dr. Susan Corso
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
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