Personal Motivation In Psychology

In psychological terms Motivation is defined as a feature that induces an organism to act towards a desired goal and elicits certain goal-directed behaviors (Motivation, n.d.). Simply put motivation is nothing but a desire for us to want something to be better than it is now and is the very reason for us to engage in a particular behavior. For example hunger is a motivation that induces a desire in us to eat and by eating we have achieved success over hunger. Motivation is the driving force for many of us take a step towards achieving something that we desire and is the basis for any success that we want in life.

I have often wondered what motivates me to get up every morning and start my day. For this I give the reason that if I don’t, then I will be farther away from achieving my goal of being a successful career woman and a successful homemaker. For my own personal satisfaction and sense of achievement I want to get back to the career that I left behind a few years ago. And for the success of my family life I want to be a successful homemaker. I don’t believe in procrastinating and this I feel is the motivation for me to get most of my work done on time.

When I was in school, getting good grades was a motivation for me to finish my class assignments and study my notes daily. I wanted to get good grades because I wanted to get into a good college and earn a college degree. The motivating factor to earning a college degree was to get into a job right after graduation as I wanted to help support my family financially. I also wanted to be financially well settled and lead a comfortable life. At school there was this teacher who stressed on the students using only English to converse in the class and would punish us if we failed to...

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...her difficult and I found it extremely difficult. I didn’t know where to start and where to end. Having enrolled in the course I did not just want to leave it mid-way. At those times of extreme self-doubt, I am motivated by the multitude of possibilities higher education can offer me. It can offer me a job in the field that I left behind or since I am pursuing an entirely new area of education, it offers me the possibility of a new type of career. Whatever it is, at present I am motivated to complete what I set out as it would enable me to achieve what I have always dreamed about. Being an independent woman with a successful career.

Hence I can say confidently that there is not just one person or thing that motivates me but depending on the situation that I am in, I find my motivation in a lot of different things and different ways to enable me to cross the bridge.