| Stuff you probably haven't had to grapple with before. | | | | · Ensures you return calls to unhappy customers |
| You have heard it before, people complaining about | | | | while being nice to them? or |
| the lack of value in their employer. What do they do? | | | | · Entices you to stick with it during the eighth hour |
| they say. What good are they? Maybe you have | | | | when you are tired and you know the family will be |
| asked these questions about your own employer, or | | | | home any minute. |
| employers in general. | | | | This belief that children and employees could not or |
| The answer - apart from any specific management, | | | | would not be made responsible for these primary |
| technical or specialist skills they might possess - lies in | | | | motivational roles themselves is the basis for |
| the original master-slave and master-servant | | | | enormous problems that many people experience |
| relationships. These are what the employer-employee | | | | when they decide to take the big step of moving from |
| roles are legally based on. | | | | being an employee to running their own small business |
| This master-servant division is based on a belief that | | | | or home based business. They may have never |
| the former knows and has the skills to create and | | | | performed this role in their lives before. |
| drive the work required, while the latter carries out the | | | | The need to avoid disaster |
| work required. | | | | Having been free of the responsibility for these primary |
| This division of roles relates to attributes or character | | | | roles, many ex-employees find themselves with all the |
| or class or mental facility or education or evolution - | | | | necessary skills to do the actual work, such as, |
| according to its origin in the past when servants and | | | | massaging clients, building water-features, cleaning |
| slaves were a normal part of the workforce, and | | | | houses, writing ebooks or building websites. But if they |
| when master-servant relationships reflected principles | | | | don't go out of their way to acquire the primary |
| and beliefs about superior and inferior humans. | | | | motivating skills they will find themselves with a failed |
| This hierarchical attitude to human capacity is also the | | | | business. |
| basis of our other major relationships: the parent-child | | | | Do you have what it takes? |
| and the student-teacher relationships. | | | | Do you have these skills? Do you have the ready |
| What your boss does for you | | | | ability to: |
| The original master-slave arrangement assumed that | | | | · self-motivate everyday, through thick or thin, |
| the slave or servant did not possess an inherent desire | | | | · discipline yourself and your workload whether you |
| to do what the master wanted of them, and so force | | | | feel like it or not; |
| had to be applied to ensure the work was carried out. | | | | · set direction, business plans, marketing plans, weekly |
| The master fulfilled the roles of motivator, discipliner, | | | | and daily goals and tasks and stick to that during |
| direction-setter and the creator and maintainer of | | | | every half-hour block of the day; |
| focus. | | | | · create and maintain focus without there being |
| Similarly, children, needing to be taught many things | | | | anyone looking over your shoulder; |
| including socially acceptable behavior and school | | | | · day in, day out, on and on with no-one knowing |
| lessons, also needed the parent and teacher to | | | | whether you are doing that or not. |
| perform these roles of motivator, discipliner, | | | | Equality of responsibility has only in more recent |
| direction-setter and the creator and maintainer of | | | | decades become something people have considered |
| focus. | | | | valuable within certain, more entrepreneurial fields. And |
| Your limitations | | | | it only works where the responsibility for self is taught |
| Now, let me clarify a vital point here. Employees, along | | | | and promoted, obviously because that is what is |
| with children, need to motivate themselves to perform | | | | needed, yet largely missing. |
| their individual required tasks. They need to say, 'I will | | | | Skills you need to acquire to fill your boss's shoes |
| write that report now', or, 'I will wash those pots now', | | | | Generally, the employer-employee relationship is still |
| or 'I will teach that class now'. Yet behind these acts of | | | | largely based on an 'us and them' belief system. So, if |
| self-motivation there is the primary motivator: their | | | | you are moving from employee to owner-manager |
| employer keeping task expectation up, continuing to | | | | let's make sure you will have what it takes to provide |
| provide the job, and continuing to provide the | | | | your home business with the basics. |
| pay-check. | | | | Click here for checklist - |
| Do not confuse secondary task motivation with | | | | · self-motivation - I want |
| primary motivation. Primary motivation becomes easier | | | | · self discipline - I will |
| to see when you imagine taking the employer out of | | | | · pain and pleasure incentives - carrot and stick |
| the equation. | | | | · daily and weekly focus |
| · What then propels you out of bed in the morning | | | | · finding your weak spot: the thing you deny needs to |
| specifically to work, every morning rain, hail, late night or | | | | happen, or be done. |
| shine? | | | | Other resources: |
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| · Keeps you away from the television during the | | | | Nous for Struggling Achievers. |
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