Motive Matter in Life's Pursuits

The last blog covered the first principle for “Living Fit From Work to Play”: create your life’s work around your purpose for living. The underlying theme for this principle is to understand the relationship between your effort to start and maintain a fitness routine and the work you perform and its effects on your self-esteem.

An important point to keep in mind about this principle is that work does not satisfy our material needs alone, in a very deep sense; it gives us a measure of our sanity. Today we will concentrate on the second principle: Choose what motivates you to define your goals. I’m sure that many of you have experienced motivational speakers and what they offer, or reminded yourselves if you only were motivated, you could get something done. To choose what motivates you to define your goals it’s important that you start getting control of your energy level. There are two sources of energy that you must manage to be able to choose what motivates you. Your two sources of energy are mental and physical. DEMOR, a psychophysical philosophy that stands for “Determined Energy Motivates Ongoing Results, “ focuses on learning how to balance, control and concentrate mental and physical energies to achieve pre-determined results. To understand this, let’s look at the basis of this philosophy. There are four determining factors that can and most often do determine how you use mental and physical energy.

What and how you think

• What you believe
• What and how you feel
• How you look

Functions that can affect your motivation and are related to the above factors are:

• Perception
• Attitude
• Aim setting

These functions relate to what and how you think. Your perception can be what you visually see yourself achieving. Your challenge is having the knowledge to differentiate between what you see yourself achieving and what others see you achieving. Attitude is the other factor that can affect your motivation. How are you permitting your mood or the condition you are in to determine how you are relating to your aims? Your challenge is to manage your moods so you can maintain a healthy directional effort toward your aims. Other functions that can affect your motivation and are also related to the above factors are:

Way of living behaviors

• Exercise
• Nutrition

Understanding the working relationship of the above factors and functions can help you begin to take steps to follow the second principle for living fit from work to play. So, taking any one of the factors or functions above you can begin to understand the relationship that motivation can play in achieving or obstructing an aim. And if you have not learned yet, motivation is such a difficult concept to understand, sometimes we have it and sometimes we do not. For example, motivation is defined as the act, an incentive, inducement. Motivation is derived from motive, which means an emotion, desire or physiological need, or similar impulse, acting as an incitement to action. When you think of motivation, you must think of action.

Therefore, the underlying theme of this principle is when you have determined energy and are motivated to have aim, you are in what I define as DEMOR—a state of forward moving physical effort and conscious awareness that inspires achievement, Until next time: Take Care of You.

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