Self Motivation

By Vinod Bidwaik

There is a long debate on motivation. Managers, leaders are expected to motivate their employees. Companies introduce Rewards and Recognization schemes to motivate their employees. People are definitely motivated and such schemes also shows good results for time being. But still most of the times people are not enough motivated, they further expect something different.

Motivation is an urge to do something. Self-Motivation is an urge to drive oneself, which pushes him up towards his needs, wants and desires. Nobody can’t motivate you, you yourself has to motivate you. There are lot of theories on motivation. Lot of research on motivation is available on google, but still people are not motivated. People are still not 100% happy. Organizations will ensure the motivation of people, but why people expect external motivation. I do agree that people should be motivated, but where their self motivation goes?

The main problem is they are not aware what they want in their life. So eveybody should ask the question, why I need to be motivated..

Why Self Motivation?

Self- Motivation is needed for following purpose in life.

 We need to be self-Motivated because

a)    We have our goals in life and our goals have to be achieved by ourselves only.

b)   We have our dreams in life and our dreams have to be fulfilled by ourselves only.

c)     We have to make things happen and we ourselves has to do something to make it happened.

d)     To do all in life, we should know how our life going? Nobody will keep a track of our life; we ourselves have to keep the right track of our goals dreams and efforts.

If we are responsible for our actions and our life, the question is how external factors will keep us motivated?