Motivation Triggers

Influence is not the same as force—it’s more about appealing to natural forces already underway. You can coerce someone with aggression, but you can never make anyone want to do something they don’t want to do—otherwise the entire field of advertising would be unnecessary!

The concept is simple: motivation has to come from within.

Any manager dealing with an uninspired and apathetic workforce knows this—you can’t force motivation any more than you can force love or interest or care. It has to be genuine.

Most activities, when you think about it, are a blend of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators—we may act because of our deeply held values and principles, but these themselves may have been heavily impressed on us by our history and our particular environment.

you can’t force motivation any more than you can force love or interest or care. It has to be genuine.

Human beings only act when that action is perceived as meaningful, relevant, correct or beneficial in some way.

can coerce someone with aggression, but you can never make anyone want to do something they don’t want to do

and persist with behaviors that will ultimately lead us to the achievement of a goal.

We can say that motivation is the collection of psychological forces that allow us to initiate, organize

or because we feel it satisfies our needs to…

or because we feel guilty if we don’t…

or because we believe doing so will lead us to our goals.

Each of these motivations is drastically different. If we want to boost motivation, we have to have a careful understanding of what motivation really is, and what’s driving it.

Why does anyone do anything? The answers will be as varied as the people we’re talking about. We do things because they’re intrinsically enjoyable…

or because we’re paid to…