Motivation
Motivation: General definition
A question anyone can ask themselves is: what keeps us going? What makes us wake up in the morning and live our daily life? What makes us who we are and what we are?
Well the easy answer here is simply motivation; the desire to do things. Everyone has different motivations, different things that keep them going. What can motivate some people, can de-motivate others and vice versa. Moreover, what can motivate you today can de-motivate you tomorrow. Motivation can have several sources: for example it can be god and religion, having a better life, achieving a goal or an ambition.
Many people in this world don’t realize the powers of motivation. We can look at a simple example of brothers and sisters growing up in the same household and ending up at totally different places. Nathan and Ethan A. are two brothers who grew up in a very small town in North east Arkansas. Nathan today is going to start working for a big marketing company in Chicago while Ethan is a drummer who sometimes, as he says, forgets the smell of food, because he is just living an adventurous life, never knowing for sure what’s happening the next day. Motivation makes us who we are; it is how much an individual wants something that determines how much they would fight for it. However, sometimes, it is not that much what we want but what we fear. On a small scale, you would make sure for example that your room is clean because you fear your mom’s reaction, if it is not. On a bigger scale, you would work hard because you are scared to be a below average person, who wouldn’t make enough money to survive. Positive and negative feelings and thoughts can drive our motivation.
But what happens when you lose your motivation, what happens when you don’t feel like doing anything anymore. It helps sometimes to picture yourself at the arriving line; to imagine that you realized whatever you were looking forward to and try to soak up the feelings of success and glory (Wicker,
A question anyone can ask themselves is: what keeps us going? What makes us wake up in the morning and live our daily life? What makes us who we are and what we are?
Well the easy answer here is simply motivation; the desire to do things. Everyone has different motivations, different things that keep them going. What can motivate some people, can de-motivate others and vice versa. Moreover, what can motivate you today can de-motivate you tomorrow. Motivation can have several sources: for example it can be god and religion, having a better life, achieving a goal or an ambition.
Many people in this world don’t realize the powers of motivation. We can look at a simple example of brothers and sisters growing up in the same household and ending up at totally different places. Nathan and Ethan A. are two brothers who grew up in a very small town in North east Arkansas. Nathan today is going to start working for a big marketing company in Chicago while Ethan is a drummer who sometimes, as he says, forgets the smell of food, because he is just living an adventurous life, never knowing for sure what’s happening the next day. Motivation makes us who we are; it is how much an individual wants something that determines how much they would fight for it. However, sometimes, it is not that much what we want but what we fear. On a small scale, you would make sure for example that your room is clean because you fear your mom’s reaction, if it is not. On a bigger scale, you would work hard because you are scared to be a below average person, who wouldn’t make enough money to survive. Positive and negative feelings and thoughts can drive our motivation.
But what happens when you lose your motivation, what happens when you don’t feel like doing anything anymore. It helps sometimes to picture yourself at the arriving line; to imagine that you realized whatever you were looking forward to and try to soak up the feelings of success and glory (Wicker,
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