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Motivation

The difference between internal and external

By Avontè PaytonPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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Something that people can possibly be blind to are the way they are motivated by things in detail. Motivations have the ability to influence you and give you a hard time holding back on that influence. Motivation has to be controlled for us to live a happy and careful life. It's an internal feeling, but very sensitive. There are ways to mentally practice figuring out how things motivate you and how you can be cautious of undesired motivations.

As people, we are use to what exists around us and how it all works everyday for the most part. Our home, our jobs, the entire world outside of your body pretty much. It all serves as an outside force to an individual. We have consience of what happens in our body all the time, but we aren't always aware of something happening somewhere else that we cant see. We should be aware that nothing outside of our body can control us or the decisions we make. It's all an influence or a stepping stone for something to happen right after. We are aware that we can feel motivation, but there are others who feel like they can mess with other motivations in other people, which is typical. What we should know is that everything in life will only serve as a motivation if you let it. Your brain has the power to say no at the end of the day no matter how influencing something can be. This is apart of dealing with external motivations.

Our senses are the main keys to explore the world that we exist in, but we have to be cautious. Awareness is a key to figure out what kind of motivations that you deal with on the regular. Age plays a part in this as well. Kids are much more easily motivated mostly because they're very new to what exists in this world and are naturally curious to certain things after they get a little gist of life. From there on, they are constantly learning everyday about their motivations and how it affects their decision making.

Everytime we say no or yes to something and mean it personally for your well being, we are using internal motivation. We become clear to what external motvations have to offer that would usually pull us to it. Curious people may look at external motivations different than people who are less curious and more motivated by what builds their happiness. For example, an online store advertises their product online to get people to buy. You can see people who gave reviews upon that website. All those people were motivated someway to buy that item. If the site was a scamming site, then it should say something about what were motivated by and what an outside force will try to make blind to the mind.

Motivation happens so easily because there is so much to discover that it's possible to lose awareness of certain things that'll change one's motivation.

Most motivational speakers will speak from a point of view that will make you motivated to do good for yourself all the time, and a lot of it is based on the fact that you only live once. Each motivational speaker gives off this "look in the mirror" attitude to try and get listeners to pay attention because they might say a relatable statement that'll trigger your motivation. On top of that, they want you to take in their information and self-learn on it. The point for them is not changing one's motivation, but giving everyone a different view of internal motivation.

A simple conversation is just one way of finding out one thing that motivates you. Take that one thing and build a tree of motivations in your mind (or draw it out). Everything on those branches represents every motivation you can think of. Relatable motivations will go on the same branch. You can also put things down that has motivated you but didn't get the best of you. After you're done, look at every motivation and how they relate to one another. The goal is to have more awareness on what motivates the actions you take in existence vs the actions in your head, and also to see what you say 'yes' and 'no' to in this world.

Motivation happens before we are able to make our desicion. There's no such thing as "I couldn't say no." Yes you can. Motivation is not suppose to blind you to what really needs to happen. We as people can possibly treat our internal traits better if we become aware of how they work.

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About the Creator

Avontè Payton

Musician with a huge feen for learning things psychically and giving ideas on how to assess your own character easier. I enhance the idea of "who am I?" on myself because i am constantly growing into a newer person with new abilities.

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