7 Good News Items to Understand and Boost Your Motivation
11 March 2013
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What comes first: motivation or happiness? There's probably no more of an answer than there is for the chicken and the egg. What really matters is the proven agreement between the mechanisms of the human brain and psyche. The deliberate intention to activate your motivation involves understanding its multiple aspects.
1st Good News Item: Motivation is a natural drive of the human species
Motivation is above all what makes us live and take action. By nature, by birth, humans have motivation ingrained in them. From the conquest of fire to that of space, we have proven ourselves as a "motivated" species, most of the time in difficult or even extreme conditions. We transmit an innate form of motivation from generation to generation, and its first expression is what allowed us to come into the world.
2nd Good News Item: Motivation comes from within each person
To avoid confusion, it is important to distinguish between motivation and stimulation. Stimulation encompasses external elements: situation, condition, environment, other people, the world. Avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction represents our main source of stimulation. True motivation comes from within each person, regardless of external circumstances. Like happiness and self-confidence, motivation is a unique form of personal disposition. This dynamic energy that allows one to sustain small and large aspirations throughout life is indeed innate in part and can also be acquired as a learning process, a skill.
3rd Good News Item: Motivation resists difficult conditions
Even when times are hard, everyone has motivational resources. The energy needed to get out of bed in the morning, but also to break out of habits to find new solutions, comes from our deep nature. Understanding how your own motivation works can be a great support, especially in the workplace. Identifying what motivates you in any circumstance is stimulating and preferable to dwelling on what demotivates you.
4th Good News Item: Motivation is a cocktail of benefits
It activates determination, commitment, enthusiasm and, by extension, initiative, optimism, resilience. A true magic cocktail of performance and success! Then the virtuous circle begins, and it is then that motivation leads to success, which in turn stimulates motivation.
To move from reactivity to creativity, a motivated person must consciously mobilize their inner posture. They must find the resource elements that will support their approach, such as better managing their stress, health, balance, and time. They can also seek help, choose an inspiring example, visualize their desires in detail, list their needs and expectations, or activate daily small pleasures while fostering better relationships with others.
5th Good News Item: Motivation leaves a trace in the brain
The increasingly spectacular feats of high-level athletes demonstrate that there is something new to push the limits. In the last decade, advances in neuroscience, the study of the brain, and mental preparation have opened up new perspectives. Supported by MRI scans, we now know for sure that experience leaves a trace in the brain; nothing is fixed or immutable.
By changing the parameters of our experiences, we activate the levers of motivation that can support what we dream of being. Our way of being modifies our brain, which in turn influences our way of being. This process is called self-directed neuroplasticity and constitutes a motivation exercise.
6th Good News Item: Motivation is a skill that is acquired
In turn, positive psychology proves that one can voluntarily strive for happiness by selecting one's knowledge, beliefs, and activities. It is enough to learn to identify and practice what makes one more satisfied, happier. A part of our capacity for happiness is a skill that is acquired and developed until it becomes automatic and then an inner disposition. Motivation is both the thermometer and the thermostat of happiness. With or without professional coaching, perhaps the era of voluntary selective sorting of one's own neurons to better motivate oneself opens up for everyone.
7th Good News Item: 7 steps to take care of your brain and improve your motivation
1. Observe your mental patterns. What do you know about the way you act? What do you think about it? What do others think about it?
2. For comfort or necessity, select behavioral adjustments. What do you want to stop doing? What do you want to continue doing? What do you want to start doing?
3. Take time for silence and mindfulness. How much recovery time do you allow yourself? What type of recovery do you allow yourself? What other forms of recovery can you try?
4. Manage your stress and sort your activities. What sorting of your positive and negative activities can you do? How do you rate your stress level? Which beneficial activities will you prioritize?
5. Give preference to stimulating relationships. In what environment do you feel fulfilled? How much investment do you give to those you love? What place do you make for new encounters?
6. Listen to and respond to the messages of your body and emotions. Between 1 and 10, how do you rate your energy each day? What signals to you that you are in dissatisfaction or well-being? What appropriate response do you give to these situations?
7. Stimulate your positive emotions. How do you activate your favorite feelings? How can you increase this positive energy daily? What compliments for yourself and for others can you give each day?
In conclusion, to activate the click of your motivation, do not hesitate to immediately declare your next PRIORITY HUMANITARIAN CAUSE
Etre-bien-au-travail.fr
Posted online March 11, 2013.
1st Good News Item: Motivation is a natural drive of the human species
Motivation is above all what makes us live and take action. By nature, by birth, humans have motivation ingrained in them. From the conquest of fire to that of space, we have proven ourselves as a "motivated" species, most of the time in difficult or even extreme conditions. We transmit an innate form of motivation from generation to generation, and its first expression is what allowed us to come into the world.
2nd Good News Item: Motivation comes from within each person
To avoid confusion, it is important to distinguish between motivation and stimulation. Stimulation encompasses external elements: situation, condition, environment, other people, the world. Avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction represents our main source of stimulation. True motivation comes from within each person, regardless of external circumstances. Like happiness and self-confidence, motivation is a unique form of personal disposition. This dynamic energy that allows one to sustain small and large aspirations throughout life is indeed innate in part and can also be acquired as a learning process, a skill.
3rd Good News Item: Motivation resists difficult conditions
Even when times are hard, everyone has motivational resources. The energy needed to get out of bed in the morning, but also to break out of habits to find new solutions, comes from our deep nature. Understanding how your own motivation works can be a great support, especially in the workplace. Identifying what motivates you in any circumstance is stimulating and preferable to dwelling on what demotivates you.
4th Good News Item: Motivation is a cocktail of benefits
It activates determination, commitment, enthusiasm and, by extension, initiative, optimism, resilience. A true magic cocktail of performance and success! Then the virtuous circle begins, and it is then that motivation leads to success, which in turn stimulates motivation.
To move from reactivity to creativity, a motivated person must consciously mobilize their inner posture. They must find the resource elements that will support their approach, such as better managing their stress, health, balance, and time. They can also seek help, choose an inspiring example, visualize their desires in detail, list their needs and expectations, or activate daily small pleasures while fostering better relationships with others.
5th Good News Item: Motivation leaves a trace in the brain
The increasingly spectacular feats of high-level athletes demonstrate that there is something new to push the limits. In the last decade, advances in neuroscience, the study of the brain, and mental preparation have opened up new perspectives. Supported by MRI scans, we now know for sure that experience leaves a trace in the brain; nothing is fixed or immutable.
By changing the parameters of our experiences, we activate the levers of motivation that can support what we dream of being. Our way of being modifies our brain, which in turn influences our way of being. This process is called self-directed neuroplasticity and constitutes a motivation exercise.
6th Good News Item: Motivation is a skill that is acquired
In turn, positive psychology proves that one can voluntarily strive for happiness by selecting one's knowledge, beliefs, and activities. It is enough to learn to identify and practice what makes one more satisfied, happier. A part of our capacity for happiness is a skill that is acquired and developed until it becomes automatic and then an inner disposition. Motivation is both the thermometer and the thermostat of happiness. With or without professional coaching, perhaps the era of voluntary selective sorting of one's own neurons to better motivate oneself opens up for everyone.
7th Good News Item: 7 steps to take care of your brain and improve your motivation
1. Observe your mental patterns. What do you know about the way you act? What do you think about it? What do others think about it?
2. For comfort or necessity, select behavioral adjustments. What do you want to stop doing? What do you want to continue doing? What do you want to start doing?
3. Take time for silence and mindfulness. How much recovery time do you allow yourself? What type of recovery do you allow yourself? What other forms of recovery can you try?
4. Manage your stress and sort your activities. What sorting of your positive and negative activities can you do? How do you rate your stress level? Which beneficial activities will you prioritize?
5. Give preference to stimulating relationships. In what environment do you feel fulfilled? How much investment do you give to those you love? What place do you make for new encounters?
6. Listen to and respond to the messages of your body and emotions. Between 1 and 10, how do you rate your energy each day? What signals to you that you are in dissatisfaction or well-being? What appropriate response do you give to these situations?
7. Stimulate your positive emotions. How do you activate your favorite feelings? How can you increase this positive energy daily? What compliments for yourself and for others can you give each day?
In conclusion, to activate the click of your motivation, do not hesitate to immediately declare your next PRIORITY HUMANITARIAN CAUSE
Etre-bien-au-travail.fr
Posted online March 11, 2013.
