You can print the Motivation Mindmap Note Form to summarize factual ideas that you like from any of the book outlines or abstracts. Also, you can document your most serious and complex current thoughts and feelings as you make choices concerning the basic categories or the many concepts that form the context of the ideas in the book outlines and abstracts for this Motivation Category.
You can print a copy of the Blank Oval Mindmap Note Form and save it for a permanent graphic reminder of the fact that all the "idea-branches" you draw on it represent the meanings that you associate with the Motivation Category in your life now and your quest for self-creation and self-awareness. The printout can be modified at any time you have good reasons or an intuitive insight that the diagram needs to be changed to reflect a more accurate depiction of your possibilities in the changing real world.
The memory enhancement skill of "mindmapping" makes it possible for you to put your ideas and information into visual patterns. These patterns of coherent thought can help you think clearly about important ideas and organize your goals and plans. They give you an objective pattern of your "subjective" perceptions. The printouts document the way your brain works in relation to whatever idea, goal or plan you are thinking about. If you read more scientific information and think better thoughts about your self and mind, you can rapidly improve your understanding of your "self" and the world you live in.
The mindmaps can help you organize concepts and measure the degree to which they are based upon positive and life-affirming factual scientific ideas. Each mindmap that you make is a record of the fact that both of your brain's hemispheres (both left and right sides) were engaged in the thinking/valuing process and interacting successfully. By using the unique "memory mindmaps" and "idea templates" on this website to focus your attention and concentrate your time and energy, you will create your own Brainpower Mindset of factual scientific ideas that can be your lasting treasure as you pursue happiness and cope with problems on your way to continuous successful solutions.
BY USING MINDMAPPING SKILLS TO DIAGRAM YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS,
YOU CAN APPLY THE BRAINPOWER THEORY FOR QUICK SELF-ANALYSIS
AND ACHIEVE INSTANT SELF-CONTROL IN YOUR SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS.
You can understand the new brain science factual ideas about how your brain's anatomical structure makes possible your own wonderful brainpower. You can quickly increase your mastery of this Broadband Brainpower Mindset, which includes learning how to use the "Six Smart Skill-Sets," for doing accurate self-analysis and gaining optimum self-control over your mind and body.
[1] THE SECRET OF MOTIVATING YOUR SELF!
The "Greatest Management Principle" = The things that get rewarded get done!
Everybody works "SMARTER" when there is something in it for them!
The TEN BEST work strategies for productive employees:
STRATEGY ONE --- Reward solid solutions instead of quick fixes!
STRATEGY TWO --- Reward risk taking instead of risk avoiding!
STRATEGY THREE --- Reward applied creativity instead of mindless conformity!
STRATEGY FOUR --- Reward decisive action instead of paralysis by analysis!
STRATEGY FIVE --- Reward smart work instead of busywork!
STRATEGY SIX --- Reward simplification instead of needless complication!
STRATEGY EIGHT --- Reward quality work instead of fast work!
STRATEGY NINE --- Reward loyalty instead of turnover!
STRATEGY TEN --- Reward working together instead of working against!
[1] For the next week, take a few minutes each day and page through this book, noting the high points you marked!
(1) It is a lot easier to apply a principle when it is totally familiar to you and ingrained in your subconscious.
(2) The key to familiarity is REPETITION!
[2] After several readings, write "ACTION PLANS" for managing others, managing your supervisor and managing yourself! Follow the steps outlined in this summary.
[3] Set "DEADLINES" for completing each action plan!
The most common view of motivation is that human beings are rational animals motivated by money and other material rewards. And for many people in many situations, money is important. However, some people place greater value on social approval, prestige, and status than on money.
This view of man as a social animal emphasizes that a person is governed more by the informal
organization's "logic of sentiments" than by the formal organization's "logic of efficiency." More recently, behavioral scientists have found that high employee morale does not necessarily result in greater productivity and that man's motivations are vastly more complex than can be explained in economic or social terms alone.
Many theorists and managers now believe that the "psychological contract" implies that work effort should be exchanged not only for money and social contact but for self-esteem,autonomy, and self-actualization.
These different views of man and his motivations may be summed up by the well-known anecdote
about the man who asked three stonecutters what they were doing:
One said, "I am making a living," the second, "I am trying to be the best stonecutter in the world," and the third, "I am building a cathedral!"
The first stonecutter is the "economic man," the second is the "social man," and the cathedral builder is the "self-actualizing man" who finds his satisfactions in the work itself and its larger meaning rather than in any external or accidental rewards.
None of these views are entirely correct or entirely false. Different people want and need different things in different situations at different times.
In the job situation, the worker may be seeking satisfactions for his material needs, his social needs, his needs for self-esteem, respect from others, and self-fulfillment all at once!
[5] SELF-MATTERS --- SEVEN BASIC NEEDS THAT MOTIVATE YOUR CHOICES
Your life demands choices! Your challenge is to simply identify the seven most critical choices of your life. These seven critical choices have been major factors in determining who and what you have become. If you identify and understand these choices, you will unlock an amazing amount of information about you and your self-concept and you and your future!
Your "Hierarchy of Basic Needs" which drive or motivate all of your choices:
