Motivation - 05/11/12

Both Matt and Kim gave a presentation each on Motivation.  Matt started the talk with Maslowi's needs triangle which shows the levels of motivation.

Self actualization
Esteem
Social
Safety
Physiological

You start at the bottom for what you have the motivation for what you need and then work up.  Matt said that people only get up to normally Social as a maximum.

Kim then went on to present her presentation, talking about "buts" and "can'ts"; giving excuses and reasons to not do something.  She went on to talk about demotivating things and motivating things to do.  For example, a demotivating thing would be to look at professionals work that's better than yours and compare you work to theirs.  A motivating thing would be to look back at your old work and to compare yourself from then to now.
She questioned how we tick my asking 'What would having ..... do for you?'
-what you want it and why, what would it do for you?
-what would your goal give you that you wouldn't otherwise have?
She also talked about the fear of failure - things not living up to what you thought and that fear can stop us for even trying to achieve something.
She left us with some questions to ask our selves, to try and take away the fear:
-knowing who you are
-what are the things you are naturally drawn to
-what are the changes you need to make to get the life you want
-what are the most important things i can do today to get me to improve?
Kim then made us do this circle star chart thing, we divided a circle into 9 segments and labelled them 1-9.  Each number meant a different aspect of how we work and communicate. We then placed a dot in each segment; the closer to the center the less confident we were in doing that task, the closest to the border of the circle we were confident in and in the middle having mixed feelings.  When all the points had been plotted, we joined them up to look like a constellation.  Because of this, we can see where we need to improve on and how many things we are comfortable in doing.

Overall, the presentation on Motivation was interesting.  it is an interesting topic that was delivered well by both Matt and Kim.  It made us see some points we need to improve on and have us come face to face with some of our fears.  For example, i have a fear of failing.  Not only that but i don't want to put time,money and effort into something that wont amount to anything i.e. me not being a good enough artist.  I can't say the lecture on Motivation motivated me.  In honesty made me feel un motivated, as ideas and topics about fear and not being motivated were being brought up, it did make me feel un motivated, made me think more about my fears.  Besides that, it was interesting and was something different.