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Importance Of Motivation
Let's consider the importance of motivation for your future. In the new year there is a custom to evaluate your life and make short term goals for the next year. At any time of year it is helpful to evaluate what aspects of your life are progressing well and what areas could use some attention. Visit
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What motivates you? Artistic creativity, improving your lifestyle, feeling "good" physically?
Some are motivations of survival that are essential to your mental health. By focusing on the possibilities of growth and the beauty around you it is possible to stay away from the pit of past mistakes and the fantasy of reliving your life.
You can easily get sucked into the "I wish I had" pit of despair. The truth is you have a past and have made countless mistakes. That is the road of life. Each day is a new adventure and holds a learning experience for you. Make the daily choice to look ahead and learn whatever lesson today holds.
The importance of motivation is to find what sparks your desire for a new adventure and willingness to learn. Survival dictates what you have to do. Motivation sets you on your own unique path to live life. Simply breathing and moving through each day is not good enough. When you tap into the creative side of your brain the sun rises, the flowers bloom, and the world is full of delicious smells and flavors. There is a reason to get out of bed each morning. Each day becomes a new opportunity to begin again.Life is like a painting. You start with a blank canvas. Then you search for inspiration and absorb the subject. It must become part of you, you must know it intimately. In order to be inspired your spirit must be awakened and guttural emotion must flow. Only then is the painting brought to life.
Make it your goal to turn the empty hours the day ahead into the painting of your choice. You may "have" to go to work but the manner in which you complete the job is up to you, and for that matter your job is also a choice. The day can be full of light and stimulation or dark and brooding. Peace actually falls somewhere in the middle. Deep inside you is that spark that stimulates life. Only when you choose to encourage the spark can you begin live and grow. Focus on the year ahead, on the importance of motivation and learning from the new experiences life.
As Terry Tempest Williams said, "I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time."
Through motivation of the Spirit, you can bring your painting to life.
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