I was listening to the audio book of Todd Beeler’s The Seven Hidden Secrets of Motivation on the drive home from work today. Though at times I find Todd’s coaching method a little cheesy there’s still a lot that he’s got to say that is worth listening to.
The primary technique that Todd speaks of for self-motivation is that of deconstruction-reconstruction.
René Victor Valqui Vidal states in Creative and Participative Problem Solving - The Art and the Science:
Often you have to break out of patterns, routines, and rules, establish ideas, organisations and systems, to discover or create something new. To change, you have to destruct first. Then you can reconstruct or redesign. Be flexible. In this way you can produce many alternatives. This is how to diverge.
The same applies to any form of creativity, including fighting racism and creating your own reality. You must first drill down to your core, identify the current belief system that you have as well as any limiting beliefs, remove them (deconstruct) and then replace them with a new understanding (reconstruct). A new knowing. Only then will you be able to pursue (or manifest) your goals.
Beeler also discusses the importance of identifying your world view. Your world view not only influences how you perceive events and interact with people around you, but it also governs how and why you get motivated. For more on this I suggest getting hold of Beeler’s book or audio book.
I was curious as to what my world view is so I did some googling and found this quiz. After completing the quiz this was my result:
You scored as Idealist.
Idealism centers around the belief that we are moving towards something greater. An odd mix of evolutionist and spiritualist, you see the divine within ourselves, waiting to emerge over time. Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one.
Cultural Creative… 100%
Idealist …………….. 100%
Postmodernist……. 81%
Existentialist………. 69%
Fundamentalist…… 63%
Materialist…………. 56%
Modernist…………. 25%
Romanticist……….. 0%
It’s really interesting, because had I completed this quiz six months ago I probably would have had a different world view. In three short months I’ve changed… for the better.
