2. Background Profile
• Age – 31
• College Dropout – attended for 2 years
• Worked as a meter reader for Gas Comp. and
worked at auto shop doing oil changes and
simple auto mechanical work
• Currently working full time as a shuttle driver
and has considering going back to school to
study mechanical engineering
3. What Mr. S Said
• “I didn’t want to go to college”
• “My parents wanted me to go to college close
to home”
• “I wanted to be a mechanic”
• “I have little motivation”
• “I don’t want to deal with people”
• “I just need enough money to live and do
things that I want”
4. What He Said
• “I enjoy the outdoors”
• “I enjoy playing video games”
• “I don’t want to be a mechanic anymore”
• “The only class I enjoyed was Asian American
studies”
• “Just drifting by”
• “I don’t like buying books or going to class”
5. How He Thinks & Feels
• Unmotivated and uninspired
• Lack of goals and ambitions
• May feel disconnected with society
• Doesn’t seem to enjoy going to school
• Accepts the simple basic life
• May not know what to do with life and how to
go about accomplishing it
6. Problem Statement
Mr. S needs a better way to be motivated and
driven in life so that he can live a more
productive and fulfilled life
7. Ideas
1. Think about your memories; what stands out and what
makes you happy
2. Have meaningful goals; to have meaningful goals you need to
discover what are meaningful to you
3. Who inspires you
4. Who do you want to be like
5. What job/profession interests you and why
6. Be inquisitive with yourself and the world around you
7. What are your favorite activities
8. If you won a million dollars what would you do with i
8. Ideas
9. What do you want in life
10. Are you motivated by intrinsic or external rewards
11. Have a support group
12. Join an organization that interest you
13. Play videos games and learn what motivates you to play
14. Make a bet with a friend that you will accomplish your goals
15. Watch TV
16. Sing a song
17. Meet people online
18. Take a class
9. Ideas
19. Eat something you love
20. Eat something you hate
21. Eat something unusually or weird
22. Learn a new language
23. Take on a new hobby
24. Do something fun you did when you were young
25. Paint
26. Draw
27. Write
28. Do photography
10. Ideas
29. Learn to cook
30. Discover other people’s happiness
31. Read a book on motivation/psychology
32. Do what you wanted to do when you were a kid but couldn’t
33. Travel to another place you’ve never been
34. Learn what motivates others
35. Put money on your goals
36. Join some competition
37. Go swimming
38. Get some new clothes so you have a new identity
11. Ideas
39. Have a kid
40. Adopt a kid
41. Be a mentor to someone
42. Go for a run
43. Try some drugs/medications
44. Have sex
45. Start a project
46. Get a new job
47. Go shopping
48. Treat yourself to something nice
12. Ideas
49. Get a motivational coach
50. Teach someone something you know or are good at
