What motivates us?

   What motivates us? What is the reason that we wake up in the morning and head to work. Are we heading to work because of money or are we driven by our purpose in life? The video explains that our motivations are extremely interesting. We are not always driven to do better because of more pay or a bonus. In fact in most cases we do worse or may even crumble under the pressure of trying to reach the bonus. What really jumped out at me, is that if we take the issue of money off of the table then people will focus more on their work. It is so important to seek purpose in your life before you seek the pay. The video is proof of that.

  There are three factors that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction.

1. Autonomy: desire to be self directed or to direct our own lives.
2. Mastery: the urge to get better at doing things.
3. Purpose: result or effect that is intended or desired.

   During the workers limited discretionary time when they are free to do what they want, how they want, people seem to do better and more meaningful work for free. If a person can escape the standard work model, they can excel while serving their purpose away from work. So why not base our lives on that fact? More people and businesses are gearing towards the purpose motive rather than the profit motive. If a person focuses solely on making profit and not on serving a purpose bad things can happen. How many of us have dealt with a business or person realizing that they do not care about me, they only care about my money. We put up with crummy service and bad products when this happens. On the other hand, how wonderful is it to deal with someone that truly cares about your experience with themselves or their business.

   For example: Zappos, is an on line shoe company. Zappos sells shoes to customers that make a purchase without trying the shoes on. Zappos is built on two-way trust. Customers trust Zappos money-back guarantee with free shipping in both directions. Zappos also provides excellent customer service, the people on the other end seem to care about you as a person not just an order number. Now stop and think for a moment. If you walked into a local shoe store and couldn’t touch or try the shoes on would you buy them? Probably not. So how did Zappos grow to be a huge hit? Simply put, Zappos cares more about their purpose than their profit.

   What a lesson for each of us to learn. If we seek our purpose in life we can profit from it as well. When dealing with others it is truly important to put their needs before our own. We all have this great God given purpose inside of us that is screaming to get out. We have potential to make a difference in this world and to make this world better. We must put faith in our abilities and seek our purpose in life. Live your life on purpose and Profit from Purpose. You deserve it!!