Do You Seek Pleasure or Do You Avoid Pain?

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Motivational expert, Tony Robbins, identifies 2 basic drivers: seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Seeking pleasure is working hard now so you’ll feel happier later – such as voluntarily working on your project at 2 in the morning because your extra effort will help you rise above the competition, which will lead to more income, which will make your life more pleasurable. Avoiding pain is working on your project at 2 in the morning because it’s due at 9 a.m. and you don’t want to make excuses to your client, which could cause you to lose future business, which could cause you pain. Avoiding pain, says Robbins, drives most people in the workplace.

How can you identify what drives you? I believe pleasure-seeking people in business are pro-active. To shape their future, they choose to do things others avoid: making client calls, learning new skills, and dreaming aloud. Pain avoiders are identified by their language, too, especially the way they over-use the phrase, I have to, as in, I have to call this client, I have to finish this letter, I have to attend this meeting. Pain avoiders can be optimistic, positive people, but they are reactive and let life dictate where they are going.

How can someone switch his or her driver from pain to pleasure? I believe the way to do it is to shift your thinking from reactive (I have to) to pro-active (I choose to) – which sounds like a smart choice to me.

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