I find motivation to be the ultimate driving force for every single action that one undertakes; the process of being motivated takes on many forms and appearances depending on the individual. Take exercise for example, who really enjoys exercising? Without proper motivation, not many people enjoy doing this, (unless you're one of those dedicated-get-up-every-morning-at-the-crack-of-too-early-so-you-can-take-a-lap-around-the-block-just-to-say-you-did-your-30 minutes-for-the-day), and even in this particular scenario, it's only achieved through an intricate motivational process. What about something else constructive but basic, such as doing your laundry? Even for something this simple one has to have a motivational force behind the task and that would of course be to do the laundry or go naked.
Face it, we have to have motivation for everything we do; there's an extensive list of motivational reasons for why we even go to work everyday or why we attend church or even why we keep the friends and company that we do. So in this cognitive process according to relatively conservative standards, what would our motivation be for honoring God? Do we have to be motivated to pray or to worship? Hmmm...I wonder if too many times, we're thinking about what the people around us are perceiving us to be and thus gathering motivation from the standards of others. If so, I think it would be sound to say that our thinking is flawed and the reasons underlying our motivations should be examined. This isn't true for all, but definitely food for thought don't you think?
On a closing note, take a look at some research done on the fun theory. Going back to having proper motivation to exercise, I wonder if people would be more apt to activity if the motivation existed to make it more interesting or in this case, fun?
Cheers,
Laura
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