The root of the word “motivation” is ‘motive’. What is your motive? What is your drive? What is your reason? The reason you get up every day and go to work? Why do you get up and get the kids ready for school? What is the reason you take care of yourself? These are rather simplistic questions and almost seem involuntary tasks given to most this is all common sense and non-negotiable responsibilities. But when you take a step back and really think about it, WHY do you REALLY wake up and keep going? What is the end goal? We are all aware we need to eat to have energy and take showers to be clean, to have good hygiene and not reek or go to work to pay bills to have a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, and food in our mouths. But again, why do we do the things we do to have those things? Because you are programmed and taught that is what you are supposed to do or because you really want to do it? Is it because it’s the social norm in the society you live in or is it an option?
Most of the time we seem to forget what we are living for. OR for some, we never really considered it given it is something we either have been taught by survival and upbringing for some and others it is a trend and what is the common thing to do in the society and environment you live in. To have a purpose in life is what most of us seem to look for in the grand scheme of things. Why are we here? What are you supposed to be doing? And for some, it may be obvious due to parental/guardian observation or an important figure that sparked a passion in one’s youth, but for others not so much. Then it comes down to seeing that while cooking, cleaning, and working are all obvious things that “need” to be done, what makes all the difference in one’s life from another is the “Why” behind their actions. Why are they working, cleaning, cooking? What is the end goal? Or is it just an endless cycle and loop of what seems like vanity till you meet the grave?
To have a motive in life is more than what meets the eye. It’s more than just knowing what’s right and wrong and how to survive but to have and want a purpose for something, to thrive. To take the time to ask yourself why you do the things you do; what is your end goal, where are you heading and why? It is a never-ending intervention of a rabbit hole of “whys” until your heart meets an answer that sees fit to its desires that is hopefully The Truth. To recognize a passion, you have and put it into motion with what you already do or AKA; apply Intention.
To have the intention to achieve a certain goal before you meet the back of your eye’s lids for more than just 8 hours of sleep. Intentions make all the difference on whether
something is successful or if it lasts beyond your years of living. The effects it has on not just your life but others and why even when you are not here to witness it. To craft the thoughts of reason and drive in the mind and put it into action is indeed the Art of Motivation.
