 Do You Want To Be Inspired Or Motivated?
I ran across this YouTube video of Lance Secretan talking about the difference between Inspiration and Motivation which is total alignment with what I wrote about in Curing The Unmet Needs Disease. Check out Lance’s video and the following clips from Curing The Unmet Needs Disease.
Lance Secretan’s Inspire! What Great Leaders Do
Curing The Unmet Needs Disease – Page 14
You see, motivation can work, but it doesn’t last – it is unsustainable. That’s why I’ve dedicated my life since then to creating a sustainable system for a successful and profitable business.
Motivation fails because it is inherently flawed. It is based on fear; fear of losing something you already have, or fear of not getting something that you want.
I looked up motive in the dictionary, and it said motive comes from a place of need, desire or fear. So, you see, the whole premise of motivation is flawed. You have to hit bottom before you can turn around and become motivated.
Look at the word desire, as well. It comes from the Latin word desidus, which means moving away from the star. You are already a star. These things are sabotaging you.
No matter how motivated you are, you cannot progress past a certain point until you address your Unmet Need Disease
If you are looking for motivation from this book, look elsewhere. I’m not trying to motivate you; I’m trying to cure you. What I offer is a proven, sustainable model of success that will address your Unmet Needs Disease, spark your aspirations and give you the inspiration – not motivation – to put it to use.
Curing The Unmet Needs Disease – Page 26
Remember, your values will stay unexpressed and even unknown, as long as there are Unmet Needs in the picture. That’s why motivation and personal development fails. You cannot slap an “I’m happy,” affirmation on top of an Unmet Need and expect to live out that value of happiness.
You also can’t get rid of Unmet Needs by drinking, drugging, eating, partying, shopping or gambling them away. These are all different versions of the same misguided attempt to get what you really need (safety, approval, recognition and belonging). It won’t work and you will only attract more conflict, rejection, struggle, suffering and time-consuming tasks and people.
Curing The Unmet Needs Disease – Page 37
We come back now to the definition of motivation: the sense of need, desire and fear. Inspiration fulfills you from the inside out but motivation tries to fulfill you from the outside in. Since it is virtually impossible to be fulfilled from the outside in, you feel empty, even though you appear to have reached a goal.
You hear it all the time, “I’ll be happy when I have more time/money/clients/holidays/cars/sex, etc.” Meanwhile, as you accumulate more and more, your negative ego mind replies with, “Is that all there is?”
Have you ever woken up, gradually becoming more alert and thinking casually about the day ahead, and then bang, it hits you. “Holy shit! I quit the perfectly good job that my mother told me to keep and became a financial advisor, an entrepreneur, and started my own business!”
Having no guaranteed paycheck fuels your Unmet Need for safety. So, without really knowing it, you look to your clients and your sales to fulfill your Unmet Need and to take care of you. Instead of going out and adding 100% value to your clients, you are looking for them to save you.
You run after any prospect that could fog a mirror and as you approach each one, you think, “Please buy my product, I really need this sale!” This continuing pattern of emotional highs and lows perpetuates the vicious cycle of your adrenalin addiction.
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