What truly drives you to achieve your goals? Uncover the real essence of motivation with me, Michael Kane, as I unravel why genuine drive must stem from within. Drawing from my extensive experience managing diverse teams, I explain why motivation can't simply be handed out like an order but must be a personal, internal force. Through engaging analogies like the Transformers, we explore the depth of human spirit and personality, highlighting the necessity for self-reflection and self-motivation.
This episode of "Living Your Success 24-7" is packed with thoughtful advice on identifying your own motives and aspirations before inspiring others. Whether you're leading employees, guiding your family, or encouraging friends, it's crucial to first understand your own purpose and inner drive. We'll discuss how to set clear, meaningful goals and the existential questions that fuel our ambitions, offering a roadmap to harnessing your internal drive for both personal and professional success. Join us to gain a profound understanding of what it means to truly be motivated.
What truly drives you to achieve your goals? Uncover the real essence of motivation with me, Michael Kane, as I unravel why genuine drive must stem from within. Drawing from my extensive experience managing diverse teams, I explain why motivation can't simply be handed out like an order but must be a personal, internal force. Through engaging analogies like the Transformers, we explore the depth of human spirit and personality, highlighting the necessity for self-reflection and self-motivation.
This episode of "Living Your Success 24-7" is packed with thoughtful advice on identifying your own motives and aspirations before inspiring others. Whether you're leading employees, guiding your family, or encouraging friends, it's crucial to first understand your own purpose and inner drive. We'll discuss how to set clear, meaningful goals and the existential questions that fuel our ambitions, offering a roadmap to harnessing your internal drive for both personal and professional success. Join us to gain a profound understanding of what it means to truly be motivated.
This is Living your Success 24-7 with Michael Caine. Well, well, well, how are all of you doing? Hope you're doing fine. What's on my mind?
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I was thinking about motivation, the word motivation, and clear something up. No one can really motivate anyone else, but we can only give someone a reason to be self-motivated. Motivation is an internal matter and you just can't tell someone hey, be motivated, okay, sure, see how that works out, you can't. It's a fallacy to believe that you can give any speech or direction or command and someone just snaps into motivation mode. It doesn't work that way. If you ever had any employees and I've had a lot, I've had a lot of employees that I've managed over the years and bona fide employees, independent contractors, I've managed those at some point. And someone has to be willing and open, uh, to feedback, uh, hopefully constructive feedback and the good god's honest truth too. It won't hurt, right? So I was first thought about motivation and, in relation to myself, thinking Mike, what motivates you To get up In the morning, put on the clothes and do what I do?
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Go over there, go left, go up Down, 200 miles away Down the street? Why do you do what you do? What do you do? Do do so we all. Why do you do what you do? What do you do do? Do so?
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We all react to stimuli and whatever that stimuli may be differently and which causes us to transform, just like the Transformers you know by Hasbro Love the movies, and they transformed the autobots and the decepticons. The autobots, just as in the name says, they're robots that turn into vehicles. Usually some type of vehicle could be a big Mack truck, a big rig, a motorcycle or whatever your car or vehicle of choice. And the Decepticons? They usually turn into aircraft of some kind, helicopters, planes, stuff like that, and then they have other, you know, various iterations of those, and so they transform. It would be nice if humans, us human beings, could just transform just like that, transform right, but it doesn't work that way. Um, we're not robots. We do have souls, spirits and personalities, and different personalities, I should say different spirits. And so let's start with ourselves Before we say hey, I want to motivate my employees, I want to motivate my family, my friends, my significant other.
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How about you work on you first and have a list of what do we need to do differently in order to be productive or sane or, in our right frame of mind to be able to be accomplished. It could be sport, it could be work, it'd be whatever, hobbies or trainings, uh you know, school, whatever, uh, relationships, it you know. Go on and on. Um, I was thinking what, what motivates you? Well, first of all, I have personally this internal drive where I need to accomplish something today, and so it would be good if everyone has that right spirit to you know, what am I going to accomplish today? What do I want to accomplish today? Or what am I going to accomplish in the next five years from now, or ten years from now, even twenty years?
Speaker 1:
So the word motivation, I wouldn't use it loosely, because it's at the heart, the very center of why we're here existentialism, yeah, what purpose do I serve? See, motive, it all comes from motivation, some form or fashion motivation. How do we get people motivated? Now, usually it's in the context how can I get them motivated to do what I want? Right, okay, now, if you're an employer, I I can see that if you're a parent, you want your child to do well in school. You don't want them to do drugs or, uh, do inappropriate behavior. So, yeah, you want.
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Normally it's in a context of I need someone else to conform. But let's start with ourselves first. What are your goals in life, your purpose defined? What do you want to do, what do you want to be? So that motivation has to be, uh, approached in a matter that it will leave an internal impression on someone to be able to say yeah, I'm motivated now to finish school, I'm motivated now to do well on my job, I'm motivated to learn a new skill or to be good at this sport, that sport, either for vocation or a hobby. This sport, that sport, either for vocation or a hobby, mages like fishing, golfing, baseball, football, basketball. You know, most of us don't have aspirations or even a talent to be professional. Don't want to leave out tennis too, okay, and others. You know soccer, in other short, you know soccer. So your game of choice, your talent of choice, your vocation of how you're going to earn a living, it, you know, can go on and on, and on and on.
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So what motivates Michael Caine? So what motivates Michael Caine? It's his sense of competitiveness. To. You know, someone does something, you know whatever. Let's say, we're picking strawberries, somebody picks five pounds of strawberries. Well, I want to pick 10 pounds of strawberries, just for the sake of it.
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We were kind of raised. I don't know if I could blame our parents for that one, but we're just like competitive. It's like you know, people just over the minutia, the little small things, still competitive, just have this drive to do well, someone gets an A minus. Well, I want to get an A plus. Now, competitiveness is fine, but the goal of the motivation I speak from is also because self-driven and to me that is a connection with external driven if you got the gold medal, however, you got it legitimately. You got the gold medal right whether it's internal, external motivation you don't want the other guy gal to beat you is the reason that made you run faster or something. So that's fine, it's didn't break the law and there's no immorality to that.
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So you have to figure out what's your North Star. Where's your North Star? What gets inside of you that makes you want to achieve and jump high as you can to succeed as far as you can go? So I'm going to have to leave you hanging here, meaning you have to decide what your North Star is. What gets you up from the bed in the morning to go somewhere, and it may be to a job you just hate. With people you can't stand, whatever, but, yeah, money's good, earning a living is fine, and one day being financially free is a good thing. That's our goal, right, most of our goals.
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Some people may not care, but we're not talking about those people, right, talking folks that want accomplishment, and but see, and that's in the eye of the beholder your accomplishment may not be to the degree my accomplishment is. We're all different, even if you're twins or you're relatives, your family, brothers, sisters, whatever same bloodline you all are different. Some may want to reach for the stars, some may just want to reach for the moon, some just want to reach their toes, and I don't want to say one is better or worse than the other, because that's a judgment call. Whatever makes you happy and that you can live a life where you're self-sustaining and take care of yourself. In that vein, then do what you need to do, right, and so, um, I I've just I don't know if I was born with it. I know our parents had drive to you know they weren't superstars, but they were accomplished and and so I know we definitely learned that from our parents and some family members. Let me see, we learned what to do and what not to do, depending on who we were observing or watching, but in any case, it helped us move further along in life.
Speaker 1:
Now, true, I made some mistakes, motivated in the wrong place and got burned for it, and you know, hopefully you live long enough and you learn and so. But I desire to achieve and I have specific goals. I'm not going to go through them all here, but it's better if you have a specific target, because when you just stay general and say I'm motivated, be motivated. That may be fine for some people, but I just know me. I need a specific target. You know a goal I want to save $10 a day, every day. Save $10. Either make $10 or save it by not spending it. Let's say I say that I want to lose 20 pounds. I'm going to walk each day for 20 minutes, 20 minutes every day. I'm going to avoid eating more than four ounces of sugar every day. I'm going to eliminate eating fried foods every day. See, they're very specific, can't get around it. Very specific. So I encourage you to motivate yourself.
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Don't be waiting for your father, mother, brother, sister, whoever, aunt, uncle, granny, grandpa, stranger on the street, whoever Role model that you have on TV Wait for that. Do it for you, and many people already know they need to do this, but it's like different when they hear somebody, or especially hear some celebrity or star say it. It's like, oh I, I see the light now. But in any case, um, whatever motivates you, set that North Star on, what gets you going in the morning, evening, whatever. Some people are night people, some people are day people. What are middle day people? Some people just don't go to sleep, stay up 20, 22 hours or something. So I wouldn't suggest that.
Speaker 1:
By the way, that's another podcast as far as health and safety and having adequate sleep. But that will help you be motivated if you sleep at least six to eight hours. And I know, hey, I used to do those long days 18 hours, 15 hours, whatever, too. So I understand, periodically I still do so, but not every day anymore. Not a spring chicken anymore, spring spring chicken, I don't. Okay, I was about to give you my chicken impression, but I don't think you'll like it. So, anyway, title show should be self-motivation. How can I motivate myself?
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Reading books, and there's a lot of excellent books out there and podcasts too besides my and I encourage you to listen to, to read, and books motivate me when I read. You know the psychology of money. That just well gave me a different perspective. And um, and then other um books and and I like music and I like, uh, poet, poetry and and, uh, you know so, and I, I just like. I do like nature too, I have to say I like it even more. I mean, we knew more of nature growing up and then got older and adulthood, you know not so many trees and and water and oceans and beaches and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:
But moving back to that, where I want to spend half of my time, um, you know, just in a relaxing environment, and then the other time in the big city. I'm just a split personality that way. I just got to be within an hour somewhere of a city, preferably half hour okay, where I can go to the movies and see a musical and I love that kind of stuff. But so I'm kind of have one foot on one in the city, one foot in the country. So, um, teach his own right. And so anyway, just remember that every, each of us are different, we're wired differently. So it's not.
Speaker 1:
It may not be totally fair to compare yourself against someone else, but at least compare to the point, to a degree where it helps get you off your butt and get you to move from point a to b to c to d, all the way to z. How's that? Is that fair? And so, um, it's being the right spirit about it and um, and you know, uh, whatever success means to you, that's what it means to you. So, again, don't knock yourself for not having a specific skill set and don't believe the lies of folks and backstabbing people either. I had to throw that in there. There's a whole lot of backstabbing suckers out there. So be careful.
Speaker 1:
And thank you for all my listeners worldwide and whatever continent country you're in, please continue to support my podcast. My website is livingyoursuccesscom. I'm Michael Caine. I have a newsletter that I've been slowly trying to get off the ground Catalyst with a K. Please sign up and please share this podcast with others. And please share this podcast with others and subscribe and shout out to Apple, iheartradio, spotify, amazon Music and a bunch of others too. So that's it. You take care. And until, oh, what am I? One more thing Go to Amazon. You can go to my website or go to amazon and buy my book slaying your dragons living a life you always wanted. Um, I believe most people will benefit from it, and it's meant to be an encourager. I'm your coach cheerleader type person, and so, uh, paperback ebook either way, it's affordable, so, um, I approve this message, okay. So, anyway, you take care of my friends until next time. Until next time, adios.
