One more thing on Motivation..

When people tell me they would want to study a certain field or they wish to lose weight, my first reaction would be to ask "Why?".

There has to be a reason behind the ideas.

For example, a student comes up to me and says, "I want to study Medicine." Naturally I ask, "Why Medicine?" and the he replies "Its my interest." After talking to him about 20 mins, he ends up going for Acconting.

What I found in between is that he never liked science, the reason he wanted to be a Doctor is that the was looking for a Doctor's pay. He didn't know that it would be at least 13 years before he would even be considered for that kind of pay.

Many people wants to lose weight, many people want to look good, but not many people achieve it, again "Why is that?"

A girl comes up to me, and asks "What do I need to lose weight?" After 1 hour of explaining ways and methods on losing weight she says to me "If i have that kind of time, I'd rather sleep..."

So how do we do things and make it happen? Firstly, understand WHY you are doing it. (note to my last post, motivation is the WHY we do the things we do.)

Word of The Day: Motivation

The word MOTIVATION became quite a thought for me all of a sudden.

Its mentioned in almost every part of the day. You go to book shops and you find motivational books, you atttend motivation seminars, you listen to motivation speaker, when you are down your friend motivates you. Motivation is everywhere but what is it really?

Lets take the word apart.

Motive is something that causes a person to act in a certain way or do a certain thing.

Motivation is the state or condition of being motivated.

Now if one person shoots and kills another person, does it make him a bad person?

When cops evaluate a suspect of a killer, they look at the MOTIVE. In other words, why? May be its because he was angry. Then WHY was he angry? May be the victim killed his family. Now there is a motive in this story, which is REVENGE.

Really it is the "WHY" in what we do. Everyone has a motive in their actions. One of my friends shared "People can judge my actions, but they cannot judge the motivation behind it"

What is our motivation behind our current actions? Is it a positive or a negative one?