Hi guys!
Today I would like to introduce the courage and self-confidence
topic.
Self-motivation and preparing oneself for an event/occasion etc.
Definition of motivation can be found anywhere on the Internet : “Motivation is a psychological
feature that arouses an organism to act towards a desired goal and elicits,
controls, and sustains certain goal-directed behaviors. It can be considered a
driving force; a psychological one that compels or reinforces an action toward
a desired goal. For example, hunger is a motivation that elicits a desire to
eat. Motivation is the purpose or psychological cause of an action.
Motivation has been shown to have roots in physiological,
behavioral, cognitive, and social areas. Motivation may be rooted in a basic
impulse to optimize well-being, minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure.
It can also originate from specific physical needs such as eating, sleeping or resting,
and sex.
Motivation is an inner drive to behave or act in a certain
manner. Once I came across a sentence on a website ,
psychologytoday.com : "It's the
difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing
around the house all day." These inner conditions such as wishes, desires,
goals, activate to move in a particular direction in behavior.”
But how does the theory confronts with reality?
I found problems in motivating myself on many occasions. I
lacked in perseverance on completing my tasks before deadline and suddenly it
came to me like a shock - I had a problem, I realized that from my school when
I started getting bad marks because of not doing tasks or doing them
wrong, in a hurry. I read a lot and talked with my friends about how
they motivated themselves. Then a solution was clear - no matter how many time
I spent on thinking what I should do it didn't bring me closer to achieve my
goals. Then I tried the simplest thing ever – I tried doing tasks on the same
day or day after I received it. It was very hard at the beginning but soon after I noticed that
my marks got better.
Now I will tell you something about my friend.... It's a secret...
I recently talked to my friend about motivation and how life goes by. This is what
I heard from him: " I've wanted to start my driver's course since
September last year when I came back from the States. But I am the type of a person that needs time to process a lot of information
and, more accurately, I need to find time and motivation to enroll. So I wanted
to, but was too lazy to actually do the first step. :) However, I am the type
of person that makes decision REALLY quickly when I must or am forced to. For
example during my university years (I miss them!) when there was one (!) day
left to apply for another major (spanish Philology) and no time to lose, I
managed to get all the papers, take some necessary photographs of my horrible
face, fill in all the paperwork and officially apply. If I had had more than a
day (like maybe two weeks), I probably would not have done anything, and never
would have enrolled! The same thing was with this driver's course. As I was
saying, I wanted to but had no motivation. Then one of my work buddies (another
English teacher) said she had just enrolled and was waiting for the first
class. She asked me to join (as we spoke about the necessity of having a
licence a month before) and having NO
TIME to make up my mind, I decided "what the hell! It's time!" and
did it"
It gave me lots to think about.
It's basically about the first step - and then I either get
involved or not.
How is it with you guys?
Do you need to force yourselves to get somewhere?
Do you need someone to push you a bit?
Here is some video about motivation I found:
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