To get to the root of de-motivation, the energy will need to be traced from the leaf back to the root, so to speak. Though as we are discussing the origins of this energy, for ease and understanding, let us start from the root forward.
From our own long-term studies, some individuals as far back as early infants appear to have been birthed pre-installed with de-motivation. We use the term “pre-installed” loosely and openly, as what is really being said is that, for a tiny minority even recalling infant-hood did not produce the root. However, this is irrelevant, as by adulthood, even the individuals that could not recall childhood roots, still possessed the innate ability to positively impact, and change for the better.
So what exactly do we mean by the term de-motivation?
Prior to any conscious awareness, and most likely when an individual is a small baby, motivation began it’s journey as a neutral force. In other words, it is neither positive, nor negative, and it is just the raw energy of motivation, before it takes on one form or another. Yet to become self-motivation or de-motivation the neutral energy must gravitate to one of two options, i.e. positive or negative.
Option 1 - self-motivation, which is commonly understood as good positive motivation
Option 2 - de-motivation, which is commonly understood to be negative
We have already discovered that in it’s raw state and prior to any adult awareness de-motivation is neither positive nor negative. Yet more often than not, by the time you reach adulthood, come across motivation, and develop the ability to identify it, the dynamic has already taken on a form. In other words, by the time you become aware of any motivating forces, they will be felt as positive forces of self-motivation, or negative influencers of de-motivation.
You may well now be pondering a natural question like why as a human are you designed to be birthed, grow up and develop into an adult without having the ability, knowledge or influence to make these dynamics work positively for you from the beginning.
It’s a great question and one that does not have enough space to be addressed without sidestepping from motivation. Nevertheless, just because the origins of de-motivation go back as far as early childhood, maybe even further. One does not require the answers, and does not require psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, or any other form of mind altering treatment to dissolve, and transform de-motivation into it’s positive form of self-motivation. In fact, and when you really get the hang of this, you too will find it easy be to transform de-motivation from one state to the other. Though prior to that transformative process, de-motivation does require some degree of “observation”. As we need to trace back, root out, and dissolve the original core driver, self-reflection through self-observation is the key. Though as already outlined, like the root of a tree, once exposed, the core of de-motivation will unfailingly die.
Though when you begin looking for the origins of your own de-motivation, try to without judgment, quietly and calmly observe. Try to mentally and emotionally stand back from yourself and just watch and listen to where and when you experience de-motivation. In doing so, you will discover a great deal about yourself.
Yet, and again we are speeding things up. From our long-term studies it was discovered that whatever a person discovered about him, or herself, the current task, or situation that they found themselves to be in, were “not” the cause, or the actual root of their de-motivation.
This might sound frustrating which in retrospect is a great paradox of all mankind. The upside being that when the dynamics of self are addressed, then professionally the individual flourishes. The knock-on, and the whole reason for this module is that when de-motivation is transformed into self-motivation, not only does the individual, but their entire life, job, career and business grow.
Soon we will begin to observe your de-motivation in greater detail, however, for now, please read on for there are additions that make this transformative process effortless, smoother, and quicker.