Best Life U Podcast - Motivation What Is It?

Welcome to the Best Life University podcast.

I'm Dr.

Lynn Brown,

A counselor and educator.

In this podcast,

I discuss a myriad of topics related to the five dimensions of personal growth,

Mental,

Social,

Spiritual,

Emotional,

And physical.

Thank you so much for listening.

Today's topic is motivation.

What is it?

Motive comes from the Latin motivus.

This means moving.

A motive is an inner drive that causes a person to act in a certain way.

So motivation is more than wishful thinking.

It is desiring a particular outcome,

Believing that your efforts will lead to the outcome,

And knowing why this outcome is important to you.

Motivation impels movement that becomes a willingness to act in a purposeful and persistent manner.

When you are properly motivated,

You know exactly where you want to end up,

Why,

And what needs will be filled.

You don't just reach your goal by wishing to.

Motivation is not willpower.

Willpower is having a certain belief,

But deciding to act in another way.

Using willpower is perhaps winning a few battles,

But ultimately losing the war.

You will spend a lot of time and energy fighting with yourself about whether or not to use it.

So willpower is a technique that will assure you do what you don't want and when you don't want.

Copyright 2020.

Ben Baranis Brown.