Monday, 12th May 2014
What is motivation? Have you ever tried to understand about it?
What is motivation? Have you ever tried to understand about it?
All
of you might have experienced that you are motivated by somebody else or by some
incidents in life.
When
you observe the success of another person you might be motivated, thinking that
I also must have the same success in life. C V Raman Pallai, the great
Malayalam novelist was motivated by the publishing of Chandu Menon's Indulekha, the first published novel in
Malayalam. CV had already completed his novel when Indulekha was published. If CV had published his novel soon after
it was written, he would have been considered as the first novelist in
Malayalam. That incident motivated CV to create the final draft of Marthandavarma, his first novel, ready
to publish. Motivation can come in the form of advise from other people. When I
was a boy of age 10, I was careless in having enough food because of my busy
schedule running from Kathakali class to tuition class and to the school. My
body became very weak. One of our family friends advised me about the
importance of having enough food. That was a motivation for me. I started
taking extra care about having enough food whenever I ate.
Motivation
is the feeling to do something or not to do something. For example, motivate
somebody to stop smoking, of course, which is very very difficult motivation
though.
But
the motivation coming from outside is second grade motivation. The real
motivation is that which comes from inside. One of my friends from Japan had
told me that in their country, small babies, when the parents realized the
need, were thrown into the deep water in restricted conditions. They say that
the babies of 3yrs or 4yrs of age swim back to the shore without much
difficulty. They explain that babies can swim by birth. Because there is no
motivation or need, he/she forgets this skill until you remind him/her when you
teach him/her swimming! Anyway, when
the baby is thrown into the water, what happens there? An urgency forms in
front of the baby to use its skill to swim. No other way but to swim for life!
See, here the motivation comes from within.
In
Mahabharatha, the hunter boy Ekalavya was rejected by Drona, the great teacher
of all warriors. Ekalavya was not de-motivated by this incident. He made a
sculpture of Guru Drona and practiced weapons by himself, in front of the
sculpture. And he could become more powerful than Arjuna, the favorite student
of Drona. Ekalavya's motivation was from within.
The
actual motivation must come from within. When you realize that there is no
other way but to act, that is the real motivation. Human being is in fact
helpless. He cannot live without action. The necessity to find out food and
shelter itself makes us motivated in doing work. The civilization demands much
more actions from each one of us.
Do
small activities daily, like morning walk, exercises, reading good books other
than your study material, small helps to others executed voluntarily.. such
small self-motivated activities will develop your habit of being motivated from
within.
The
one who is motivated from within, have great self confidence and power to
execute any difficult task in life..
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Small personal
victories leading to ultimate success
Get up early in the
morning..
Do some exercises..
Do some
prayer/meditation before break fast..
These are the most
difficult advices for many people to follow. But these are the easiest roads to
success in life.
It is true that
waking up in the morning and still stay on the warmth of the bed is one of the
most enjoyable thing in a day. Most of the people are not ready to give this
joy up for anything. So you get up late. No time for exercise or prayer even
though you want to do them. When you reach in the workplace, you have the
guilty feeling that even though I wanted to do some exercises, I couldn't. That
feeling stays all day and the phrase 'I couldn't' resonates inside you when you
do anything at work.
On the other hand,
if you wake up sufficiently in the morning and do your exercises / studies /
prayers / whatever you want to do, when you reach at work, it will give you
tremendous confidence to function well. You will remain active all day long. If
you are a student, when you spend some time for your studies in the morning
fresh hours that will make your day wonderful and joyful.
I will give you a
tip, to get up in the morning in time. Suppose you need to get up at 6am to
finish all your plans of jogging, exercise, prayer etc. In that case, you
manage yourself to go to bed at around 11pm and fix the alarm for 5:30am. It is
very important to go to bed early if you want to get up early. you wake up at
5:30am and during the first 30mins you may remain on bed, enjoying the lazy
freshness of the morning. After 30mins, instead of being carried away by your
pleasurable mind, get up at 6am victorious and bustling.
The feel of the
morning action stays in you all day long until the evening. So if you start
your day with a self victory that makes you victorious psychologically all day
long. But if you start a day with self failure, the result of that day also
might be the same.
Be permanently
victorious by small personal self victories..!