Motivation & Small victories leading to ultimate success

Monday, 12th May 2014

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..!