Self-Motivation Part Eleven

​Do not mean to belabor the illustration of the Tower of Pisa, but there are so many principles to be learned. For instance, when the tower began to sink after construction, due to unstable subsoil, Construction was subsequently ceased for a century. 

The construction of the tower, first, had its inception with a dream, then it materialized itself by breaking ground with vitality and vigor. Similarly, many of us realized personal dreams and we are full of excitement, energy, and determination to bring it into fruition. However, when things do not go as planned, we have the proclivity to get frustrated, and as a result, we acquiesce, we give up and throw our hands up in capitulation much like abandoning the Tower of Pisa. 

​So, how do we acquire mental tenacity, how do we improve our lasered focus that feeds our self-motivation to accomplish our goal?

First, let me mention that psychologist will tell you that all of us have multi personalities. One, the public personality that is well polished, secondly, the personality among family that is not as polished, and third, the personality that is the core of our inner world of thought and feeling that we tend to keep to ourselves.

It is the third personality is where we find our deepest heart desires, and there lies the key to self-motivation, it is a driving force, and it is deeply entrenched. Your motivation lurks within, so how do you find it?

It is a matter of asking yourself the following rhetorical question. What is it that brings me joy in life? What is it that truly matters to me? What is it that inspires me? These questions go beyond basic motive, and of course, I cannot answer this question for you. However, once you answer these questions and follow through, those answers will be your driving force, your true self-motivation, and for the first time you have really come to know yourself, which is personal success all onto itself. You will feel great about following through with your plan of action, because the natural drug, dopamine, the feel-good hormone will be spurring you on no matter how many setbacks or how tough it gets, for these challenges are external forces that are manageable and do not come from your powerful intrinsic core, yes, your inner heart.