Chapter Six in Life

There are things in life that are intangible, materialistic, self-fuffilling and rewarding and those are what inevitably create drive and motivation.


What is it in each being that creates different motivational factors that put us all in different avenues in our adventures? What makes one thing so fulfilling to one so polar to another?


How do we direct our motivation to our long term goals? 


"Have you ever wanted something so much that you felt that you would do anything to obtain it?" Intuitively a lists starts to formulate with past, present, and future values that have changed over a period of time, and in that we can wonder if we have been consistent and challenging to the goals that in the end will make us self-fuffiled, or what needs to happen in order for this to occur. This is exactly where motivation sets. What will allow us to want to do better not only for others, but ourselves to see a sense of accomplishments that continually often times are set aside waiting to get picked up at a later time. The answer is until we work towards what we want, the right time doesn't come and tap us on the shoulder handing us what we want.... we must direct ourselves based on our determination and drive.


In the midst of what we chose to put on our plate we tend to continue to set things that mean a lot to us on the end table waiting for the right time to seise. However, we can forget that not always will the thing we are waiting for still be there when we chose that the right time. People around us are so quick to grab opportunities, even if it's not what they want to feel the sense of accomplishment: reward.


The List: Personal


To refrain from other people taking the things that I have wanted in the past I started making lists. And, I don't mean the dry-erase board that is in constant flux throughout the month, week, or even day... but the one that I have recently started making at the beginning of the year. A detailed syllabus of what I have expected of myself and broken these 'tasks' in importance and one goal that leads to another.


Now, for myself... a list isn't a goal without set dates of when to have them done. Like homework, there are periods in which I expect myself to learn a lesson, or do community work, or able to read x amount of books that I have been meaning to read but been putting off... something from simple things for self-accomplishment towards lessons that are long term learning objectives that very well carry on to the next year. But, always "happiness and appreciation towards life" are the first words that I read... reminding myself, that life isn't a competition towards any one but myself: life is too short to take for granted all that it has to offer and that in time things do happen on it's own but we also have to work to earn these values...


Not every body is driven off a list, but the point being there is something in all of us that motivates us even when we feel the least willing to do what it is that needs to be done. Find it, start doing what we have been putting off, and have another goal/task ready. We all become more united when we work together, even if towards different goals together we can serve a purpose in guiding people towards happiness in different ways, and making differences one task at a time.