What
motivates you?
Are you heart or mind motivated?
Do you do things primarily because you want to do them? Or do you usually take action because you think you should for one reason or another?
Take this quick test to determine what motivates your choices for a single day. This will give a good indication of your general tendencies.
TEST:
1. List everything you did yesterday in as much detail as you wish.
Example:
Got up
Fed the dog
Got dressed
Ate breakfast
Called my sister
Drove to work
Had a meeting with Stan
Wrote a price estimate for Sally (Etc.)
2. Go down your list, item by item. Ask yourself, “Did I want to do this?” If your answer is “yes,” put a check mark next to the item. If your answer is “no,” go on to the next item.
3. When you've completed scanning your list, go back to the items you didn't check. Determine the reason you did each action even though you didn't want to at the time and write it next to the item.
Example:
Tom
wanted me to.
It's my job.
I wanted the money.
If I didn't, no one else would do it.
I said I would.
It needed to be done. (Etc.)
4. Now add up all the checks. How many things did you do because you wanted to? How many things did you do even though you didn't want to at the time?
RESULTS:
If you have more “want-tos” than other reasons for doing things, you were mostly internally motivated that day. You tend to be your own authority and act from your heart.
If you mostly acted out of the “shoulds,” you are more externally motivated, taking direction from factors or authorities outside yourself.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
Most of us do some of what we really want to do, some of what we think we want to do, and much of what we think we ought to do.
The ideal of Heartaculture is that you do only what you want to every moment.
You never do anything you don't want to do.
By doing so you act in alignment with your heart and live synchronized with the flow of universal forces. “Coincidences” in your life become commonplace.
What you wish to accomplish can happen easier, perhaps taking only two steps instead of four.
When you do only what you want at the time you want to do it, you empower yourself to be the authority over your life, to make it more and more the way you wish it to be.
By making choices in alignment with the heart you follow your inner map to fulfilling your innate potential and expressing the true Self.
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