Motivation

What does it take for you to undergo a certain task?

Now take that task and place it in the wee hours of the morning (or if you're a morning person at the late hours of the night).

How much more effort must you exert to go do that same task?

Has your attitude changed at all?

If your attitude hasn't changed then I commend you for such passion and love for whatever task you're given.

But if you're a normal person your attitude definitely changes to that of dread most of the time. And the effort you have to exert to force yourself to do that task definitely increases.

Nevertheless if you set out to perform whatever task, you my friend are motivated.

Now motivation can lie in different areas: a certain goal, proving of oneself to another, pride, or just affirmation in one's own abilities.

These last few years for me, I've been working towards a certain goal and thats what mainly kept me going. However it wasn't til the beginning of this year that I realized that when one sets out to do a task over and over again, the best motivation should lie in the love for that task. And I fully support that because love does trump all and it can lighten the burden and mood of any situation. 

But that's not all, lately I've told myself that I can do certain things. Mainly because in the past I had done similar or harder things. If I was able to do this or that back then, what's stopping me now from being able to accomplish that? I guess for me a certain motivation arises from past experiences that I've persevered through. So now whenever a hardship arises and it shows any similarity to a past predicament, I aim to do my best and reaffirm to myself that I can pull this task off. 

This recurring theme of affirmation of one self, just reminds me that we humans are creatures that want to be loved and affirmed. May you be toddler or an old geezer there is nothing out there when you are reminded either by yourself, a peer, or a person you respect that YOU can do this. 

But I digress back to the main point.

What motivates you through life?

Can you honestly answer and say its something not purely selfish or egotistical?
If not I challenge you to reconsider your motives.
And to reassure you perhaps, I have/am/will be reconsidering my motives along with you.