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Achievement Motivation – Key to Success

Achievement motivation starts with the sheer act of simply wanting. Uncluttered, straightforward desire focuses attention, establishes priority and creates a sense of inner harmony.

So if you know what you want, you’re poised to move into FLOW and if you don’t yet know what it is you want, active listening is the key to help you discover your passion.


Coaching - A Self Discovery Process

The professional life coach creates and holds the space that allows the client to listen and receive deep and powerful personal messages – actionable insights that spark passion and illumine thoughts that align with values to create a vision of an ideal worth striving for, imagined as already perfected and complete. This passion sparked by desire provides the emotional and energizing impulse necessary for action.

Achievement motivation creates focus and a clear sense of direction – a pathway for passion (e-motion or energy in motion) that provides meaning and a clarified sense of identity that develops goal commitment, strategic intent and feelings of empowerment - passion aligned with purpose.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.Bertrand Russell


How it Works

Self regulation is the ability to regulate your emotions and persist with goal pursuit in face of distractions. Planning and awareness inform this process and self regulation makes it happen. Traction creates a sense of momentum. The result is defined as a state of flow or optimum performance that results in an experience of enjoyment as When people perceive themselves to be above their own personal average level of challenges and skills. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2003)


Flow Concept

What is FLOW?

Commencement of learning something is a flow situation – everything is new and flow absorption is present as one struggles to master the new skill. As one’s level of competency progresses, either boredom will ensue because there is inadequate challenge (the skill has been learned at that level) or anxiety occurs experienced as stress because a bigger challenge than we can cope with presents itself.


Emotions - a Powerful Feedback Mechanism


Flow Context

Either way, one wants to get back to flow, either by:

  • Overcoming the anxiety challenge
  • Becoming more skilled, or
  • Taking on a challenge that will overcome the boredom, thus getting back into flow at a more complex level.

The feedback mechanism impacts one's achievement motivation. How important is achieving your goal to you? From 1 - 10, 10 being the highest, what value of importance would you assign to your goal? What are you willing to sacrifice in the process? What is your level of achievement motivation? Learn more about setting SMART goals.

Flow - A State of Ease and Joy

When challenges are matched to capabilities you are fully and creatively present and:

  1. Focus and concentrate on the task at hand
  2. Gain a sense of control – you are “in charge”
  3. Are fully attentive, with no self-consciousness
  4. Priorities become clear resulting in unself-conscious self assurance – a state of ease and joy


Getting into FLOW

Coaching helps clients harness their achievement motivation and find their way into FLOW, helping them build their capacity to ever greater complexity and achievement through their own voluntary action. The client directs the process, identifies the issues to be coached on and moves forward at their own pace, supported by their coach. Learn more about the coaching process.


FLOW in the Workplace

Ask yourself:

  1. Do we know where we're going?
  2. Is everyone working together?
  3. How effectively is the available emotional energy being managed? How much is needed?
  4. What action can be taken to increase or direct the supply?

Our Leadership Coaching and Workplace Coaching Programs equip managers with coaching skills, develop good leadership skills and build their capacity to create the experience of flow for themselves and their staff.

Enabling Perspectives

Seeing passion as a valuable human resource critical to goal attainment, shifts focus from the bottom line to the factors that enable flow to facilitate goal attainment efficiently – the human and environmental factors that enable sustainable success in an increasingly competitive global economy.

This perspective recognizes the need for a holistic approach and the importance of an expanded spectrum of holistic values resulting in the triple bottom line as the measure of corporate social responsibility and sustainability for organizational, societal and personal success:

  1. Economic
  2. Environmental and
  3. Social

Learn more about motivation in the workplace.

Enlightened individuals and corporations recognize this need. They see coaching as an effective means to help create the internal and external conditions necessary to leverage the human capital reflected in the expression of passion for professional success and personal fulfillment.

The KAIZEN Approach

The kaizen method recognizes that the outcome is out of your hands – the best hope is to focus on the process. By giving your full attention to the process you will always do your best and so workplace satisfaction is assured, collaboration with others becomes a means to success process and outcomes are seen as the result of the process. Therefore, the more effective the process, the better chance at a positive results.

Chance favours the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur


Facilitating Engagement

The FLOW experience employs 5S KAIZEN principles and the commitment to the practice of continuous improvement, tackling incremental challenges of progressive levels of difficulty: A process of planning, doing, checking, assessing; acknowledging; planning; doing; checking, assessing; acknowledging…ad infinitum.

Continuous learning, represents FLOW in action and results in structural and functional improvements. Internally, new neural pathways and connections in the brain are formed improving attention and memory and cultivating emotional intelligence - the single most important success factor in life and business. Externally, new and improved processes and ways of doing things are developed. The relationship between process and results presents a powerful and creative feedback loop with achievement motivation kick starting the action.

Kaizen Life Coaching programs help you harness your achievement motivation, develop self awareness, self knowledge, self esteem and improve emotional intelligence empowering you to make the choices you need to live passionate lives and have the impact you want to have in your world.

Inspiration

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.Kovan J., & Dirkx J. 2003, Being Called Awake: The Role of Transformative Learning in the Lives of Environmental Activists, Adult Educ Q 53(2), 101


Speak with Us

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, KAIZEN Lifestyle Management, we work with executives, managers, independent professionals, artists and other creative individuals who are compelled to contribute toward developing a more sustainable world without forsaking themselves in the process.

We offer a free no obligation consultation.

To learn more about how you or your organization can benefit by harnessing achievement motivation for improved satisfaction and results, you may reach us at 416 686 6463 or send us an email via

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