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Millionaire Mind 2011 The Motivation Equations
(Part 2)
By Kevin Hogan
There are a host of books, speakers, advisers that will encourage people to do the most ridiculous things to be motivated, succeed in business and build wealth. If you followed their advice you'd spend most of your time doing things that "felt good," fed addictions and you'd have your eyes closed with visions of yachts and mansions dancing in your head.
I'll spare you the trouble.
It's not real.
Today let's take a look at real motivation that works for you.
Forcing a Wedge Where It Isn't Helpful
Factor 1: The most important factor people do well or do poorly, financially - is whether the individual attempts to place an artificial and psychological wedge between "personal" and "business" activity in life. They somehow convince themselves that great pleasure and work just can't go hand in hand.
If your income production activity (your job if you work for someone else) is not typically a form of pleasure and pleasure is not typically generated as you work. If that is true you can turn the pages of this article or simply call the mortgage company or psychiatrist now. The house will eventually be foreclosed on or you'll need the therapy.
Factor 2: Americans tend to call anything that is unpleasant "work."
Factor 3:Anything that feeds an addiction or causes pleasure is "fun" or "play."
Factor 4: When there is as much addiction as their is work in someone's life they call it "balance."
And do know this is not everyone. It begins with a job that does not bring pleasure in this first scenario.
Those notions are 20th Century American thinking and don't have any link to reality. The beliefs become habitual forms of thinking. If they do in your life, then you've already experienced the major stresses of being out of control in your life and it's getting worse each year.
Don't get me wrong. Not all actions requiring effort are desirable or enjoyable in optimal income producing activies, nor would we ever expect that to be the case.
Not all effort that is difficult is going to cause you to be happier or experience more love or money.
Example:
Last night I had to fix the projector in the theater. OK I didn't *have* to. I could have called a service guy and saved that major pain in the butt, but my son wanted to fix it with me and while this didn't make it a "pleasure" this experience is one of those things that creates a bond between Dad and Son. So we spent an hour and a half and fixed the thing. It was definitely PAINFUL but there was also something experienced as PLEASURE.
And painful pleasure is a GOOD thing.
Escape Every Day
If you typically feel the need to "escape from work or your job" then you are obviously doing the wrong work.
I generally consider (and for the sake of the Motivation Equation) work something that generates revenue. I generally consider something that doesn't generate revenue as --not work.--
Analyze:
Marketing, sales, customer service are what wealthy people consider "work."
Creating a product, writing a book, doing taxes, cutting the lawn, fixing the damn gutter and the movie projector, are not work. They are non-income producing activities.
Wait a minute...a book is a NON-income producing activity?
That is correct.
It's income producing when someone buys the book from a bookstore.
This distinction is part of The Motivation Equation of The Millionaire Mind.
The First Continuum is this: Work...Not Work.
There is nothing necessarily good or bad, pleasurable or painful about work. It simply is marketing, sales, or customer service.
Work in The Millionaire Mindset is an experience that markets, sells or services your clients and customers.
This is the reason every government eventually fails. They don't work.
They don't market.
They don't sell.
They don't serve their customers.
The government is functionally Work Free and, therefore, the "business" of government cannot sustain itself.
Are there exceptions?
Not many. The Attorney Generals Office in Minnesota is in customer service. They go after the bad guys who rip off old people and steal their money. They are serving the public. Police generally are in customer service. Their job is serve the public. Teachers serve the parents of a community at the parents request. That's customer service. But for the most part government doesn't sell a product or service and they typically aren't involved in marketing that product or service and they rarely consider themselves in the business of customer service. i.e. They generally --not work.-- (see above)
Exceptions noted what is the next continuum for developing your The Motivation Equation?
If it isn't understood...bad stuff happens...
A Tragic Way of Thinking That Leads to Failure ...
Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
16526 W. 78th St. #138
Eden Prairie, MN 55346
(612) 616-0732
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There are a host of books, speakers, advisers that will encourage people to do the most ridiculous things to be motivated, succeed in business and build wealth. If you followed their advice you'd spend most of your time doing things that "felt good," fed addictions and you'd have your eyes closed with visions of yachts and mansions dancing in your head.
