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What is Motivation a Defintion and How to Achieve It!

You all want to be motivated but do you know what motivation is exactly. The dictionary defines motivation this way:

"Motivation: The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action towards a desired goal, the reason for that action."

Substitute "organism" with "a human being" and you begin to get it. An implication of the definition is that we need to have a reason behind our actions to achieve out goals.

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Each of us has a unique set of needs, desires and rewards that spur as to action. These are the things that motivate you -- your motivators. In this poll, you get to pick the one motivator among all of those that you have from some of the most common human motivators I want to to pick your main motivator, the one reward and need that drives you more than the others. You can also share your ideas or opinions or the reasons you picked the motivator you choose.

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What is motivation

motivated peopleMotivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals It is the incentives that we seek, the perks that bubble over our metaphoric coffee pots. It is the inpiration we live and yes breathe for -- inspiriting the spirit of innovation.

We don't seek motivation, Motivation finds us and pushes us ever forward.

It lights a fire under tender parts of us, it is a gentle yet invisible hand that pushes us forward. Get motivated now.

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The Motivation Meaning

meaning of motivationEveryone needs to be motivated in order to succeed in life. But what is motivation, really?

Some define motivation as mental drive or an emotional desire. Others define motivation as the work they do in life. . For me, motivation means neither. Motivation is, in fact, the energy that is that gives birth to desire and work. It is this energy that is the foundation motivation, motives, and the quality of the action-brings-result dynamic that flows from motivation.

It is actually really more than this. That energy called motivation results from the degree you life for a purpose and a passion and the degree to which one is in alignment with one's true and real self and your inner heart

Motivation is an energy -- a physical, psychic, emotional and spiritual energy energy that you can feel when its happening.

This energy can be described on one end of a continuum as positive, juicy, strong, energetic, adventurous, exciting, playful, healing, etc., and on the other end as stagnant, blocked, stale, stagnant, depressed, negative, killing, etc.

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Meanings of Motivation

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Motivation is a body related experience, few would say "I think I'm motivated." Rather, I usually hear: "I feel motivated," or the reverse, when you do not feel motivated.

Consider common expression like fire in the belly, in His or her heart , "gut check", and "the mind is willing but the flesh is weak", as well as many other expressions that center around the belly area (the "energy center" of the body in Eastern traditions), also point to the body as the focal point of motivation (as opposed to the mind), the center of this energy that drives one to actions and supports one to maintain a state of motivation. Motivation, for me, is a "felt sense".

So, for me, everyone is motivated....perhaps just not in the way another would like that one to be, or even in a way we would choose our self to be.

Adapted from an essay by Peter Vajda, Ph.D

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