by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Get Motivated! by Tamara Lowe is about motivation being a uniquely individual force. "Everyone cannot follow the same steps to get the same results." Everyone has a specific motivational pattern. What motivates me will probably not motivate you. You first need to understand the four laws of motivation.
Law #1. Everyone is motivated differently. Everyone's motivated by something but it may be by different and sometimes self-destructive things.
Law #2. Each individual has a unique and distinctive motivational type. Your motivational DNA is so uniquely you. It's like your finger print. It's part of who you are. Reducing motivators to their most fundamental form. Lowe's team discovered six factors of motivation affecting all areas of motivation.
Law #3. What motivates one person can de-motivate others.
Law #4. No one motivational type is better than the other. A type A is not better than a type B, only different.
Motivational DNA is made up of Drives, Needs, Awards.
Drives are either a drive for production or for connection. These are internal forces that mobilize a person to act.
Needs are for stability or variety which are core requirements for a person to feel fulfilled. Awards, internal or external, are types of compensation or remuneration a person desires to reward achievement or encourage performance.
Thus, the six factors of motivation:
Connection, productivity (drives)
Stability, variety (needs)
Internal, external (awards)
We all have a preference for three of these motivators.
Answer these three questions to discover your three.
1. Do you tend to be more competitive or cooperative?
2. Do you prefer constancy or change?
3. Which would make you feel more valued at work....sincere appreciation without financial bonus, or a bonus without appreciation.
Drives that mobilize a person to act.
Production Drive. Focuses on achievement, results, leadership, thrives under pressure, persistent, energetic and confident.
Connection Drive. Moves toward affiliation and values relationships. Friendly, reliable, well-liked by others. Good listeners and are good sounding boards. Supportive, loyal, collaborative.
Needs that a person must have to feel fulfilled.
Stability. Enjoy routines, good with schedules, systems, and organization. Practical, methodical, responsible. Refine ideas and improve processes.
Variety. Enjoy change. Animated, persuasive, and spontaneous. Can shift gears quickly, fun loving and enthusiastic.
Stabilizers can experience paralysis by analysis. Variables(those who like variety) many times under analyze risks. Stabilizers may think too much and not act; whereas, variables may act too soon without thinking.
Awards. How a person desires to be compensated for achievements which includes the material, spiritual, and psychological currency a person wants to be paid for performance.
Internal rewards. Mission-minded people who need to make a positive difference. Generally prefers private vs. public recognition. Meaningful work and desire to feel about what they are doing.is primary importance.
External Rewards. Believe that winning should be rewarded. Enjoy public recognition by superiors. Motivated by salaries, authority, opportunity to advance. Internals are seen as selfless, externals as selfish.
So you have a combination of Drives, Needs, Awards working to make your motivational DNA. Which drive is you? What reward is you? Create the right combination and you get motivated.
From these combinations, you have the
Director (PSI...production, stability, internal)
Visionary (PVI...production, variety, internal)
Chief (PSE...production, stability, external)
Champion (PVE... production, variety, external)
Supporter (CSI... connection, stability, internal)
Relater (CVI... connection, variety, internal)
Refiner (CSE... connection, stability, external)
Explorer (CVE... connection, variety, external)
Success strategies of highly motivated achievers includes
being able to identify the motivating characteristics of others
and respond in a way that will be accepted (motivating) for them; find out what motivates you and then devise a plan that uses your motivational characteristics in the best way possible.
In order to get motivated and stay motivated, a person has to enjoy the activity and be able to do it well.
To find other people's motivator you can do it by passive observation.
Look for clues in their behavior which relate to the six factors...production/connection, stability/variety, internal/external.
Secondly, you can do it by friendly inquiry finding out about the things they enjoy and naturally excel at. You can use active presentation of this information and ask them to identify which area they see themselves. Lowe has an on-line test at her website to help you determine this.
In short, the clues are the producer talks fast, in a hurry with a commanding presence; the connector has a friendly presence with a calm pace desiring to talk to you; stabilizers are more concerned about order, schedule and sequence; variables are animated and expressive; internals want a sense of meaning or significance; externals are interested in pay, advancement and status. Then relate to them according to their motivational style or motivational DNA.
Lowe then goes through the six descriptions of motivational DNA and explains each in depth. She covers these areas for each: temperament, communication style, cognitive process, likely strengths, possible pitfalls, what they are like at work, play, in relationships, resolving conflicts, how they influence others, value, de-motivators and top-ten motivators for them, and advice each can use.
Here's a sampling of the communication style for each one. When talking or presenting to them keep this in mind and adjust your style to theirs.
Producers: edit thoughts before hand, be concise, talk fast and get to the point.
Connectors: slow down your pace, small talk first, be warm and friendly and give them time to finish thoughts, don't interrupt.
Stabilizers: have the facts, prove it's doable, present ideas systematically, use facts and figures to explain concepts.
Variables: be positive and enthusiastic, maintain eye contact, listen, show interest, express appreciation for their achievements. Use stories instead off facts and figures.
Internals: express interests in their interests, use "feel", "believe" as words, explain purpose of task, look for areas of agreement, allow them to voice opinions.
Externals: highlight benefits, compliment accomplishments, single out for recognition, offer big prizes, constantly affirm talents.
Sustain action.
If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. Cooperate with their motivation style. What motivates one person can de-motivate another.
Get more motivation from Tamara Lowe at
http://www.getmotivatedbook.com/
In The Body of Christ, Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft discusses the church in intercession in Chapter 6. Historically, Spiritual movements have been more powerful with loose organization and strong commitment to each other... those centered around gathering daily in a routine environment. The main activity was prayer. Those proactive in prayer, when meeting continually, would find a mission begin to surface from their praying. God then equipped them with power as their cohesiveness grew. The more they met, the more they were led to creative solutions to problems they faced, saturated with the Power of the Holy Spirit creating a miraculous path.
The main references for this chapter are from the Scriptures in Acts 3 and 4. It would be beneficial to read these chapters first or after you read this summary.
By going away, Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to come and be in our meetings where prayer and the center of attention is Jesus-based issues. In John 16, Jesus promised that when the Holy Spirit is at work in and among us. The Holy Spirit will convict the world, guide us, show us things to come, glorify Jesus, and take what Jesus knows and tells us. Jesus among us secures the Power of His Spirit at work through us and God's Spirit making Himself known to the world... in tangible ways.
In Acts 3 it says Peter went up at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour or middle of the afternoon. Prayer is the priority of all believers and even after great events like Pentecost, the Disciples always went back to prayer. Prayer is the priority of the believers all the time. Prayer includes all kinds of personalities with all kinds of customs. Tolerance was the rule of the day, most did not have a clear understanding of why each other did things a certain way. Love abounded and was the number one rule of the day.
When we pray, we can relate and find cohesiveness among many. When love and prayer are at the forefront, we accept each other and don't spend time talking about our different views on things. Prayer will foster unity in a group faster than anything else, as our focus is on God and not us. As we humble ourselves before God and others, the Power of the Spirit manifests in power to the level we will humble ourselves before God and to men.
Sin and unbelief blind us. They deaden our sensitivities. Our desires maybe misdirected for the wrong things. With Jesus Christ, as our mediator, we put our sins on the altar of God, forgiven, and our faith rises in belief because we depend on God's power and not ours. Prayer then becomes very powerful.
In agreement (centered around Jesus) being in harmony with each other, the Power of the Holy Spirit thrives under theses conditions.
In Matthew 18:19, the significance of In My Name stands out... "Where two or three are gathered In My Name there I am."
What is the significance of using His Name?
First, we are in harmony with the instructions of Jesus. There is perfect unity between Jesus and the Father. All the authority of God is transferred to the Son of God, Jesus. What importance did Jesus place in using His Name? There is reverence in the Name of God. Blessings and cures were attached to the Name of God. Not using the name of God in vain is a commandment. Jesus started His prayer with "hallowed be thy Name." We are standing on Holy Ground when addressing God, with the authority of Jesus with us.
In His Name, is saying we respect the agenda of Jesus and are praying in light of His Will. Jesus said what we ask according to His will, we can be confident He will answer us. Jesus did what He did in the authority of the God. God, the All Powerful Creator, responds to the requests of Jesus. We now share in Jesus' authority. What a powerful thought. When we walk as Jesus directs us to walk, and fulfill the Father in Heaven's will as Jesus did, we can expect miraculous results along the way.
Jesus said He would do nothing outside what the Father told Him to do. Jesus was so tuned into His Father's will that what He did was identical to the Father. Here's another outstanding revelation.... What we see in Jesus is God!
Jesus now commissions His disciples to do the same.
So in using the name of Jesus is using His authority, we now have in God as He had with God. Using His name demands we be in Christ as He is in us and in the same way the Father was in Him and He was in the Father. God is trinity. Trinity is Relationship. This reveals to us the value of relationship and effectiveness of relationship. That's why Jesus emphasized..."that they may be one, even as we are one." (John 17:22)
This is a very high calling. Anything less than this is religion without power, form without substance. The power they had did not come from themselves or what they had. Their lives were totally on the side of the Spirit... not material goods. When Spirit guides us we stretch out our hands to the needy, we share our bread in fellowship. Spirit turns loose the material. His blessing multiplies the bread.
All we need is the Spirit to move us, and we will experience His promise that if we agree together as touching anything that we shall ask, it shall be done.
The Spirit is manifested into the temporal, creating the tangible. This is in contrast to those who try through the material world to accomplish Spiritual ends. Our lesson from Jesus is that we should never attempt anything in our natural selves, but always begin with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit then creates the material, changes the emotions, mends broken hearts.
We see the Church as it formed, that is the Body of Christ which emerged after Pentecost, does the same things as Jesus. Corporately, we are the same as Jesus, so unity as One is essential to see the release and manifestations of Power Jesus demonstrated on earth. His plan is to do it now through a Body of Believers... versus just one person. So we all need the interconnections and relationships.
The place for prayer is not geographic. It is wherever God's people assemble together. But, it is always where believers (two or three or more) are gathered together in the Name of Jesus.
The Prayer of Intercession begins in God. It is not in us to shape prayer. It begins in God and is God. Its focus is on what He wills and what He plans to do. The action of the enemy is not against men, but against the plans of God. We rely on God's power for continued power, miracles and victory.
We know God is available, when we are in one accord, one mind and in the Spirit of God. The results...the place is shaken when people intercede and everyone gets excited about what is happening. They were filled with the Holy Spirit. One filling is not enough. They went back to prayer for a continuous flow of Spirit in Power in their lives. Jesus, when going to the mountain to pray, was transfigured anew by God. We can have this too.
They spoke the Word of God with boldness, a result of their times in prayer and through the inner presence and power of the Holy Spirit. As they shared bread and fellowship, there was no difficulty in having success when God is working in the hearts of people. Sharing all things in common, this loving fellowship and communion with each other ripped open the gates of Heaven for all the Mighty and Power of God to be seen at work all around them.
Spirit manifested in everything, in every way.
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