Motivate-Hate or Motivate
5 secrets to unlimited motivation
In life we need energy to live, exist and do things with our lives and with others. However, sometimes we can lose our lives when we talk about it. A) Yes:
• I just can’t be bothered
• It’s too much effort, I’m tired
• It’s not worth it, who cares
• Sure, one of these days …
• Yes, I know I should, but …
Sounds familiar? If this is you, and you tell yourself and others, you are missing one of the key ingredients in life’s recipe, MOTIVATION:
MOTIVATION; the psychological characteristic that awakens an individual to act towards a desired goal; the reason for the action
So we can define motivation, but does that help? Usually not enough! What is this called “motivation”? Where do you find it? How can we motivate ourselves?
The first secret to share here is secret number 1 ‘motivation is not a thing’, it is not a noun. You will never stumble upon the motivation that someone has left in the bathroom, nor will you find a piece in the fridge! Has anyone ever bought a kilo of motivation at the store? I do not think so!
If that’s the case, what is motivation, how can we be motivated, and most importantly, how can we motivate ourselves? Would you like unlimited motivation, does this interest you? If so, keep reading because that’s the design of this article.
Motivation is a set of strategies or thought processes that we execute by ourselves … Did you notice what you just read? ‘… that we run ourselves! What does this mean? It means that we are responsible for how motivated we are or not! It means that there is no point in looking for someone else to motivate us; in fact it is impossible for another person to motivate us, only we can decide what motivates us or not. So the secret number 2 of motivation is “we are responsible for how much motivation we have.” Can you begin to feel the power you have over yourself when you take responsibility for yourself?
What drives us to feel motivated? What drives motivation? Also, how does motivation drive us toward what we want, need, or believe? What is this fuel? The answer leads us to secret number 3, ’emotions are the fuel of motivation’ and ultimately they are what drives us! Let’s take a look at how emotions’ propel us or move us to action, the best place to start may be with the word ’emotion’.
E-motion, when we look more closely at this word, we can see its structure.
‘E-nergy in motion’; (e movement). Our emotions are our energy. We can generally classify emotions into three distinctive categories:
• Positive
• Neutral
• Negative
Since we can define our emotions in these three simple types, what does that say about our energy as well? Well, we can make the same distinctions for our energy types; positive, neutral and negative energy. This brings us to secret n. 4: “ People are motivated and can motivate themselves using these 3 different types of energy. ” You also can!
Positive emotion affect often gives us the energy to move towards what we want or need, in some way we feel drawn or drawn (motivated). As we experience neutral emotions we can ‘take it or leave it’ and with negative emotions we experience discomfort, a form of pain and we (are motivated) try to get away from the cause of it. We can represent this with a diagram:
The axis of motivation
Whether we move away from pain and consequences or move closer to good feelings or results in our life, they both create energy that we put into motion to do something. This is the motivation. Now what this gives us is a strategy to develop unlimited motivation for whatever we want to do or have in life.
In general, humans have a preference for which end of the motivational axis they motivate or motivate themselves. We can ask ourselves some questions to identify our own preference for motivation. Ask yourself the following questions and see if you are motivated towards what you want or away from what you don’t want:
I get up in the morning;
1. Because I have to (get away from)
2. Because I want to start the day (towards)
I take my medicine regularly;
1. Because I want to be well and live life as fully as possible (towards)
2. Because if I don’t, I will get sick or possibly die (away from)
When asked, I will go out and socialize with others;
1. Because I like to meet and be with other people (towards)
2. Because it’s not rude too much and I don’t want to bother anyone (away from)
I keep my house tidy;
1. Because I like it like this (towards)
2. Because they complain to me if I don’t, or someone unexpected may approach
