Does a Money Incentive Encourage Motivation and Action?

Businesses are always trying to find ways to make the work faster, better, and more accurate so they study the motivation and action of their employees to find ways to make their output or results better.

In a study done by MIT to see whether a money incentive will motivate a person to do more and better work or not, they found out that if the work is mechanical it does but if the work is cognitive it does not. What is the difference between the two?

Mechanical work is performed in an impersonal, machine-like, or automatic manner. This means that doing a certain activity will produce a certain result. Cognitive work, on the other hand, involves the processing of information by the mind, reasoning, perception, intelligence, or learning. This method shows that the result is dependent upon the information used and the process used to create the results therefore the activity is not automatic.

The question now is how to get the ones doing cognitive work to have better results. When the work is done by somebody who is already earning enough money for their needs then the incentives have to change because they are now looking for autonomy (self-direction), mastery (becoming good at it), and purpose (contribution to the world or its people). This shows that they now focus on success.

According to Bob Proctor, success is not what you have but it is where you are going. He will then ask you two questions. The first is if your situation is controlling you or if you are controlling it and the second is if it is good or bad. Your belief about your own situation will show you what you attract into your life. What you attract into your life is what you have manifested into it by the energy you sent out to it. This means sending out success energy to manifest success into your life. Are you doing this now? Is the money a product of your success?

If not then you still have some conflicting beliefs or you are not making your dreams big enough to manifest what you want. An easy trick to follow is to change the way you see yourself. Remind yourself daily that you are infinite potential and your spiritual DNA is perfect. Check out the website of Bob Proctor at the links below for some help. God bless you!