Motivation

Being a Monday morning after the change to daylight savings time, I am faced with the issue of "motivation."


motivation
noun
1.
the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

That's a pretty interesting definition I think that leads me to the question of what motivates me and what motivates you. What is it that arouses me towards action? What gives you purpose and direction to your behavior? Advertisers understand this concept perhaps better than anyone. I mean, they live their lives developing campaigns to provoke motivation....and that motivation is to buy the product that they are selling. Advertisers direct our purpose and direction with promises of beauty, or wealth, or power, or prestige, or health, or success. But when I wake up on a Monday morning, press my snooze alarm three or four times, rush my kids to school, arrive late to work only to be assaulted by a ringing phone and a list of emails my motivation better rely in something more than the refreshing scent of my Irish Spring! My motivation has got to come from an unfailing belief that I am where God wants me to be, doing what God wants me to do. Today God has me at a desk, in front of a computer, quoting industrial control equipment for wastewater treatment plants. As glamorous as that sounds....it is sometimes hard to find motivation. But I am certain that God has a purpose and that is motivation enough for me.