Why Motivation Isn't Enough
 

As the next week rolled around, I was very motivated to meet with my boss and find out what the missing ingredient to performance was. I had spent a few weeks identifying all the things I could do - that I had the ability and potential to do - if I choose to. And during the last week, I explored many areas where I had a lot more knowledge, and even training, than my results in those areas showed. I now had a strong desire to learn what was holding me back, and, as I said, I was motivated to finally learn how to use more of what I had. This led me to think I knew what was missing: motivation. I obviously had lacked the proper motivation or a strong enough desire to put my ability and knowledge to use. I couldn't wait to meet with him again, and that meeting took place on the following Monday. As usual, he asked me how my week's experiment had gone. I told him I'd found that I knew a lot more about things than I was using. He smiled that smile again, and this time I smiled back.

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