I don't post on a regular basis (shame!). Mostly because I have very limited time, and I spend my time here on WA interacting with other members. Perhaps that's not the best use of my time from a business-building perspective, but I feel that when we can, we should be available to join in conversations, exchanges of thought/ideas, and to validate others, so they don't feel like they are in an echo chamber, unheard....you know, to care. I think the WA community does an amazing job at that!Latel

I haven't earned a doctorate based on a doctoral thesis, nor have I had formal training in human behavior and "motivation". However, I have done quite a lot of observing of my own and others' behavior. From what I have experienced, true motivation is inherent within each person. I think that the writer of the article may, indeed, have been referring to the fact that everyone has intrinsic "motives". And let's face it, we are all motivated on some level, toward self; our own self fulfillment, sel

I am a member of LinkedIn, and I get notifications about articles written - as I am sure many of you do. I don't always take the time to read them, but this morning I did. This particular thread linked back to an article written with the premise that we should stop trying to motivate people because they are all already motivated.This started a sometimes heated debate on motivation. Quite interesting, actually, with much puffing up, and mentioning of credentials, along with opining on the subject

So my post of yesterday received some very well stated reminders from people who took the time to respond to my "frustration". First, it's really nice to know that one's words do not echo back, empty of connection. Secondly, Through those comments, a couple of things came to mind: -Strangely, when things seem like they will never turn around, I think of the end of the cold war.... for my entire life up until then, there had been a USSR, a Yugoslavia, a Czechoslovakia, and a wall dividing east an

....with yourself? with life? I started this a few months ago, and have first let myself get bogged down in overwhelm from all of the information, and then just life in general...I have to work a job that I don't particularly like (read: REALLY don't like). What I love to do, I have little time for - remaking and painting cast-off curbside furniture. And then, there is wealthy affiliate, which I believe is my best chance for an online business that I can enjoy - along with some much-desired free