Expectancy Theory of Motivation
3 things must occur for a person to have high motivation for achieving their goals:
- You must believe you can do what it takes to achieve your goal.
- You must believe that you know how to achieve it (you have the proper methods).
- You must believe that the rewards of a particular goal are personally meaningful.
MORE IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE
- Mindfulness: the awareness of context and of changes within that context.
- Discernment: the ability to recognize and anticipate the consequences of the patterns around you.
- Action: Having a bias for action and immediate implementation is how rapid learning occurs.
- Expectancy: The belief in your ability to seize or create a future outcome.
- Feedback: You shouldn’t and can’t avoid feedback if you want to learn.
- Adaptability: If you want to adjust to new norms, you’ll have to adapt to them.
Those half dozen skills which facilitate the development of other skills. They are foundational to living a life in alignment, to having confidence and clarity, and to becoming a powerful learner and leader.
RELATED IDEAS
Spend the first 90 minutes of your workday on your #1 priority, nothing else.
Zero distractions. Just get that work done.
These are the keys to discovering what is possible and what is out there.
You don’t know what you don’t know. You must be exposed to new universes to realize it’s possible to expand far beyond the current sphere in which you are.