What Is Motivation?

Do you believe you can have your cake and eat it?

Can you have what you want?

Or if you let yourself dream big are you only setting yourself up for a bigger fall?

Do you believe that the choice between these two belief systems is the only difference between people who get what they want, and people who don't?

It may sound simplistic, because at the root of every success in your life, is the simple belief that success is possible for you in that situation, and that it can happen, no matter how difficult it may be. Belief is that powerful. Getting what we want in life must be possible, because some people get it right. How did they do it? What is motivation? Is it the same as discipline?

I believe that the reason for a relatively small percentage of highly successful people in our world, is the popular belief that our goals are at loggerheads with each other, and that we have to choose between them. Financial success, our relationship, the job we love, doing good for others, speaking out about valuable causes... the common belief is that we can only have one of these goals, and that we have to pay dearly for this goal by sacrificing the others. The tragedy and triumph of our human experience is that belief is an extremely powerful force of manifestation. The moment we stop persevering or become lost in our pursuit of happiness, we fall back on the belief that life's rewards are limited. But what if we could somehow combine all our goals into the same course of action?

This may be difficult to imagine, because your relationship, or your desire for one, demands that you achieve a certain set of goals - work or school demands a different set of goals from you - family demands yet another set - your social life demands a different set ... It's all very demanding. But it's true that all these different areas are important aspects of your life, isn't it? And isn't it also true that the common thread between these seemingly unconnected demands, is you?

How would you feel if you had a good week at work? Say you received recognition, and things are going well for you. Wouldn't that feeling effect you positively in your relationship, and your social life? What about when you start a new relationship, and you feel all wonderful and floaty, even at work? Success in any area of your life has a positive effect on all areas, because success has a positive effect on you, and you are the connection between all the different areas.

It's one thing to notice this when this happens by accident, but it's another thing entirely to know how to make it happen. With the right skills and the right strategy, success in one area of life has a synergistic effect with every other area. The idea of synergy is that 1 + 1 = 4. If you have a positive effect on someone, they become more positive than they were before. So their energy level is now: what it was, lets say 1, plus the effect of your positive energy on them, say another 1. If this person also has a positive effect on your energy, your energy will also be what it was, lets say 1, plus the positive effect of their energy on you, say another 1. So the total effect of your combined energy together, is actually 1(+1) + 1(+1). So the exponential effect of 1 + 1 in synergy, is 4.

Synergy can be observed in healing, when the effectiveness of modalities or substances is increased when combined with "complementary" modalities or substances. Rudolf Steiner coined the term "Holistic", meaning the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

On a larger scale, the exponential effect of synergy has been measured in human behaviour studies, conducted during the research of Transcendental Meditation between the years 1982 and 1985, at Maharishi University of Management, (Fairfield, Iowa). It was observed that a group of just 1550 experienced meditators, or Sidhas, numbering only the square root of 1% of the U.S. population, caused a reduction of violent deaths in the U.S. over the duration of the study. (Dillbeck, 1990)

In similar TM studies, violent crime reduction was measured in Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Israel, Lebanon, and Canada, with only the square root of 1% of the population of those areas participating in the meditation programs.

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