What Gets You Out of Bed?
Your unique motives and desires combine to form your personal motivational structure – what motivates and moves you on a deep, personal level; what intrinsically motivates you and is internally rewarding for you.
Understanding your motivational structure gives you a blueprint for motivating and moving yourself towards everything you want and need out of your life, work, and relationships.
Knowing your motives and desires will provide you with the invaluable ability to deal with people who think or believe differently from you and have a different set of values. You’ll become aware about your hidden desires and why you act the way you do. Knowing yourself better creates a positive foundation that leads to a place of well-being. While you can’t change your basic personality and traits, you can change your thoughts and behavior. And that’s great news. It’s your unconscious behavior that causes so much trouble for yourself and others.
If you can feed your top motives and move in the direction they take you, you will feel energized, satisfied, and will have the greatest chance of success. If you can’t, you will feel drained, anxious, and will suffer.
Once you have truly connected with your motives and desires, you will feel a sense of relief and motivation to act, you will feel motivated.
What Makes You Tick?
Understanding what motivates you creates a better understanding of yourself, your behavior, and situations in your life. It will help you make conscious decisions about what is necessary for you to find personal fulfillment and create more success.
Most self-assessments focus on measuring just your personality traits, or just your interests, or just your strengths.
While you can’t change your basic personality and traits, you can change your thoughts and unwanted behaviors. That’s great news because it’s your unconscious behaviors that cause so much trouble for yourself and others and holds you back from becoming all you can be.
MotivationFinder™ measures 59 different aspects of your personality covering and combining four different areas related to motivation, personality, and goal achievement:
Your motives reside in the conscious mind, shaped by environment, society, external rewards, and self-beliefs.
Your desires are created by motives and manifest as a desire to move towards or a desire to move away from a specific motive.
Your satisfaction levels measure how well the three fundamental psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence are being met in your life and work. You will see how engaged you are. Your satisfaction levels might go up or down over time, depending on how well your needs are being met. They measure the degree to which you are living from a place of intrinsic motivation (what is most important and meaningful to you) or from extrinsic motivation (the threat of punishment or promise of a reward). You can re-take the Satisfaction Survey from within MotivationFinder™ to see where you stand at any given point in time.
Your desires are created by motives and manifest as a “desire to move towards” or a “desire to move away from” a specific motive.
Your goal dynamics measure how you go about achieving goals and how you react when you run into obstacles or setbacks. They describe how you manage the inevitable emotions that get triggered while working towards a goal and what you need to do to be more successful in your approach.
You will get results that you can use and apply to your day-to-day life. The personalized course, “How to Use Your MotivationFinder™ Results” within the portal will teach you everything you need to know step-by-step to unlock your full potential.