Welcome to the
* Motivation Tool Chest *
Developing productive skills through
self-discovery.
Discovering and developing our natural
talent is the source of motivation.
motivation-tools.com
By Captain Bob Webb
[ Table of Contents ]
[ Motivation Downloads ] [ About Captain Bob
]
[ Our most helpful page: You can be a
Super Achiever Too! ]
[ Our most popular web page:
7 Rules of Motivation What is takes to hang in there.]
[ Personal interest: The
Search for Our Destiny
[ Special report: Our Society is
at WAR with Our Youth! The need for education reform! ]
Motivation Tools for Super Achievers
|
|
|
|
|
|
People who have a vision control
their destiny and lifestyle. For people without a vision, their destiny
and lifestyle is controlled by others.
|
Project Based Education
The right project can motivate anyone to excel.
Helpful tips for people in conflict with classroom
environments.
|
Experience aboard a tall ship
inspires a vision that transcends into motivation that has the power to
overcome ALL barriers.
|
Everyone dreams of escaping to
paradise. For some, it is sailing off to the South Sea Islands with
swaying palms and white sand beaches.
Jungle and
Sea Adventure Photos |
|
Today's teenagers are being
academically stuffed while being motivationally starved.
Students are motivated when topics relate to personal interest.
Personal interest is achieved with hands-on projects. |
|
|
|
Priorities
There
are three priorities, CHEAP, QUICK and GOOD. You can have any two.
Note: A single priority increases efficiency. At the other
end, if all three elements have equal priority the results are reversed,
low quality, high cost, and difficult to finish. This is the result
of rotating priorities, which means, no one knows what the goal is.
Priority of the moment depends on current mood.
|
What is Your Leadership Style?
High Efficiency
- Do it.
- Do it then tell me what you did.
- Tell me what you are going to do and do it.
- Tell me what you want to do and wait for a decision.
- Don't do anything without my approval.
- Don't do anything until I tell you.
Low Efficiency
|
|
"Give a person an idea, and you enrich their
life. Teach a person
how to learn, and they can enrich their own lives" - Author
Unknown
|
People seeking to excel have continuous barriers to overcome.
People who flow with the crowd are not confronted with barriers,
they take the path of least resistance. Very often these people fall
into a pit. It takes more self-discipline to crawl out of a pit than
it does to overcome barriers. Maxing out credit cards is an
example of a pit. Establishing a business is an example of
overcoming barriers.
Click logo for large view.
|
|
Financial Management!
The skill that allows us to live the
lifestyle of our dreams. Without this skill, we become a slave to
our creditors. |
|
Tall Ship Theme Park -
Self-Discovery Program
- A proposed motivation program for teenagers, who are in
conflict with classroom environments in South Carolina, USA. |
Attach a Dream to Your Hero
Everyone has a hero, but few attach a dream to them.
Achievers have a dream with a hero that represents the person they want to be.
People, who attach a dream to their hero, become achievers.
People, who do not attach a dream to their hero, remain followers.
Opportunity is attracted to people with a dream. They are the
first to be hired, first to be offered opportunity, and first to
be promoted. Bigger the dream the faster doors open. People
without a dream are last to be hired, last to be promoted, and
first to be laid-off in a force reduction. For non-dreamers,
doors remain closed. "WHY?" People with a dream act
differently than non-dreamers, dreamers develop an attitude that
radiates energy; they have a sense of purpose and meaning to
their lives. Radiant energy is an attitude that bosses like and
to which they offer opportunity. This is how the impossible
becomes possible.
Full text, my story.
|
 |
The
Search for Our Destiny
Exploring and discovery awakens our inner self,
creating a desire to learn more about the world around us, setting in motion
a vision. A vision is the source of all achievement. |
 |
|
The compass symbolizes our direction in life. |
|
 |
|
The sextant symbolizes our current position in life. |
| |
Learning how to learn. |
Discovery of natural talent is motivation. |
|
|
Learning with projects. |
|
|
Learning with responsibility. |
 |
The chart symbolizes our desired destination in life.
Projects and the associated opportunity is the ship that gets us there. |
 |
The Power of Projects
Projects require a goal where students must search for a method, acquire
skills and knowledge, accept failure and bounce back from it, and keep
trying until the goal is achieved. They learn through experiences, more
important, they learn how to research and apply knowledge. Success is
measured by the complexity of the project and the ability to finish it. This
type of education motivates one to learn more about the world we live in
while creating a lifetime love to learn. The laws' of nature is the
motivator and instructor.
A booklet is available about projects at
downloads. |
Our Society
is at WAR with Our Youth!
The following articles illustrate the urgent need for education
reform. Teenagers, in increasing numbers, are walking away from the
public education system. Some high schools have a 70% dropout rate. More
money is not the answer, the answer is found in alternative education
methods.
We are at WAR with 30% of our teenagers, the one's who drop out of
high school. We are loosing this war, because our weapon is to pass MORE
laws that pressure them to comply with the system. This has not worked
and never will. These young people need alternative opportunity, NOT
JAIL CELLS! After all, there is not much difference between a classroom
where one is not wanted and a jail cell where one is not wanted. To
many, a classroom is a prison without bars.
Many of these teenagers are highly intelligent, but they cannot adapt to
passive learning environments, they reject the classroom form of
education, therefore, they simply choose to walk away from the system.
Through self-fulfilling prophecy they consider themselves failures and
become a burden on society. In a different learning environment they can
discover their natural talent, develop it and become productive
citizens.
-
Mindset of Street Gangs
- They are highly intelligent, ambitious, want to learn, and be
recognized as an achiever.
-
- Wiz Kids go to Jail
- Wiz kids are put in jail because they refuse to conform to passive
classroom learning environments. Because the education system labels
them FAILURES, they turn to criminal activity to be recognized.
-
-
Drugging Students to Accept the Status Quo
- Society is now drugging our youth with behavior control pills, nulling
the skill that makes them creative. They learn to accept the status quo.
This new generation may make a comfortable living, but they will have lost
the ability to be innovators. Soon, America will have a generation of people
who can earn "A's" in the classroom, but have no vision in the real world.
-
-
Teaching Young Students to be Failures
- The typical high school teaches 30% of its students to be failures. This
is because the curriculum only recognizes academic skills and students
intelligence is measured by this standard. Non academic skills and
associated intelligence are ignored, skills these students could excel at.
|
Products of Our Education System
|
A Teenager's Desire to Excel
|
Visionary Students
|
Click on image for large view.
These charts and
motivation booklets are available in PDF format at
motivation downloads.
Note:
SAT testing does not inspire or motivate students to be productive
citizens, it is a tool for government control of our youth. This
effectively takes control away from community citizens and local school
boards. |
|
Motivation is Education
There is no Education without
Motivation
|
The information published at this website is based on my
experiences and my analyses. I did some research to learn what others were
saying and could not identify with 90% of it. Coming from a different
background, I came to different conclusions from popular theory.
In the website, I tell about machinists, who are high school
dropouts, making $70,000 per year. I also tell about machine shop foremen who
are millionaires. Researches have asked for my source of information. This type
of information is based on local knowledge, not compiled statistics. Statistics
are compiled from
extremes and dumped into a basket. Society reads the results, compares the
blue-collar world to the white-collar world
and concludes that there is no opportunity in the
blue-collar world. The human factor is, people who make top wages have a career that is in harmony with their natural talent, in a work
environment that inspires them to expand their knowledge.
Several locations in the website refer to street gangs. My
resource on this is based on a seminar I attended titled "Understanding The Gang
Mentality" by Deputy Richardson, Richland County Sheriff's Department Gang Task
Force. It was held in Columbia, South Carolina, December 7, 2001.
motivation-tools.com
Contact Captain Bob at: windjammerbob@bellsouth.net
I welcome your comments.
Please be advised that I do not consult or give
personal advise.
Also, I do not add or exchange links. Nether do I advertise.
The information is for your personal use at no cost.
Copyright 2001 by Robert L. Webb
Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA
|
