"Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity"- Clay Shirky
If you saw a person who moved your heart, would you not pursue them? If you created an idea for a billion dollar product, would you not build it?
We often pursue opportunities that motivate us. Often they have a reward tied to them.
Now this is where we have to be very strategic. Just because opportunity B seems exciting does not mean we stop doing A.
I am often very guilty of this. I have about 15 book ideas that I am working on. It took an effort to stop and focus on finishing my first book. The excitement on working on the other ones was greater than the passion to finish the first one.
My motivation to finish the book was not financial. My motivation was to get the result. Now that my baby
has been born it would be so easy to give birth to another one and another one. NO! My baby needs to learn how to crawl, walk, and then run.
What does his mean for me? Learning how to sell through social media.The motivation that is filtered though the opportunity is to re-brand myself as an author and a speaker.
Today's question is:
"What opportunities are you motivated to pursue?
If you saw a person who moved your heart, would you not pursue them? If you created an idea for a billion dollar product, would you not build it?
We often pursue opportunities that motivate us. Often they have a reward tied to them.
Now this is where we have to be very strategic. Just because opportunity B seems exciting does not mean we stop doing A.
I am often very guilty of this. I have about 15 book ideas that I am working on. It took an effort to stop and focus on finishing my first book. The excitement on working on the other ones was greater than the passion to finish the first one.
My motivation to finish the book was not financial. My motivation was to get the result. Now that my baby
has been born it would be so easy to give birth to another one and another one. NO! My baby needs to learn how to crawl, walk, and then run.
What does his mean for me? Learning how to sell through social media.The motivation that is filtered though the opportunity is to re-brand myself as an author and a speaker.
Today's question is:
"What opportunities are you motivated to pursue?
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