Definition—The intrinsic motivation to:
Discern encouragement and practical solutions needed for life problems and then…
Respond in service by providing others with steps of actions they should take to overcome problems.
Profile—People with the motivation of exhorting often exhibit the following traits:
- You desire to visualize specific achievement and prescribe precise steps of action.
- You tend to avoid systems of information which lack practical application.
- You are able to help those going through trials to see how this can produce new levels of maturity.
- You carefully observe the reactions of those with whom you speak and are able to discern hidden or unspoken thoughts.
- You are good at using insights from human experience to help to amplify your teachings.
- You enjoy working with those who are eager to follow steps of action.
- You dislike teaching that is not accompanied by practical steps of action.
- You enjoy personal conferences that result in new insights.
- You tend to concentrate on the positive potential in a troublesome situation rather than on the negative consequences.
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Caution—People with the motivation of exhorting may be misunderstood for the following reasons:
- Your emphasis on steps of action may appear to others as oversimplifying the problem.
- Your strong desire to give steps of action may appear as having too much confidence in them.
- Your use of illustrations in applying practical application of truth may appear to others to be taking it out of context.
- Your strong emphasis on steps of action may seem like you don't care about the feelings of those being counseled.
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Warning—People with the motivation of exhorting need to be careful that:
- You don't boast of personal results.
- You don't become discouraged with lack of progress in others.
- You don't work at changing others for selfish reasons.
- You don't spend too much time with those who only want temporary relief.
- You don't trust in outward steps of action rather than inward life changing forces.
- The oversimplifying of situations doesn't lead you to overlook the root cause of a problem.
- Your dislike of impractical teaching doesn't lead you to dislike impractical people.
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