No doubt you’ve seen people who needed to always be externally motivated. If someone wasn’t standing over them with a stick, they just didn’t do anything. And then, you see others who’d get up day after day, after day, after day, after day, and continue to work as though propelled from some inner force.
It was from a book on real estate that I discovered this particular series of principles that are defined in the poster entitled Inner Drive. Four sources of internal energy that require no external stimulus.
Let’s begin in the upper left-hand corner, Passion. When you find out what you love to do, what excites you about life, the child inside of you who says, “I really enjoy doing this”. What do you want to do? That’s an internal form of energy.
Next is the upper right-hand quadrant, Talent. When you’re doing something you’re good at.
Then there is the lower left-hand quadrant, Values. When you’re doing something that supports your values.
Here’s where our club has really leaned into service oriented projects as part of our mission. Hospitals, work with Junior Magicians, long-term care facilities, and performing for the residents at Boys Town have become increasingly important in our programming.
You might also choose to go and read more in the article entitled Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Values in which you’ll find an activity for helping define the value quadrant of this poster.
The lower right-hand quadrant, Destiny may be a little more nebulous, but truly successful people have a sense that “this is what I was made to do.” They have this internal sense of destiny. “I was created to do this. This fits me.”
Sometimes the energy comes from looking at the unique circumstances in their lives and what they were given (i.e. what experiences they were given that others weren’t given. What they were uniquely prepared to do – that bull’s eye in the middle.)
When a person is able to bring together their passion with their talent, with their values, with their destiny – to find that bull’s eye – no one has to get them out of bed in the morning. They get up out of bed, they go after what they’re doing because they are tapping into four internal sources of energy, not requiring an external motivation.
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