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Motivation, what motivates people and the motive behind motivating others can be anything to many. What kick starts the overwhelming power of accomplishment in one person might just produce the opposite result in the other person. However, there are basic facts about motivation that seem to command universal acceptance by most motivation theorists and researchers.

The aim of this article is to look at what motivation are, factors and circumstances that motivates people, and finally exploring the motives behind peoples actions intended to motivate others.

WHAT IS MOTIVATION?

When you wake in the morning, you almost feel like lying back in bed and never getting out of bed. But, some sort of invisible hands somehow manages to push you out of bed. That force that: make you get up from bed against all odds, make you go to work, make you take action(s), etc is what is known as motivation. Simply put, motivation is a positive state of mind that does not allow us to quit when the going become tough. We endure pressures, pains and stress in almost all that we do with the hope of getting rewarded one way or the other.

FACTORS AND CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE

The principle of cause-effect relationship is most pronounced in the area of understanding what motivates people. People don’t just spur into action. A variable must be responsible for people’s action- positive or negative. Our expectation is the ultimate factor that influences our actions and inactions. The process of holding on when we ought to have naturally given up is what a scholar in the field of motivation theory described as expectancy theory. The rewards/expectations can be classified thus:

TO IMPRESS

Research has shown that over 98% of the things that we do are based on impressing ourselves or others. Young people do all sorts of things to impress those that they are attracted to. Most inventions that we all enjoy today were made in a bid to break an obstacle hindering free communications and associations. At work place or even in classrooms, people put in their best just to be noticed by the person they admire. Based on the above few analogies, it will not be out of context to conclude that love is the foundation of motivation as all that we do are aimed at loving others or to be loved by others. I remember my high school days and how I was motivated to learn just to show off my wealth of knowledge in the class with the hope of being admired by this girl that I always dream about. This may sound funny but it is nothing but the truth. It is natural for living things to put in their best just to impress people around.

TO DEFEND

Another broad reason for us to find motivation is the need to defend what we so much cherish. A dying mother for instance who is on a sick bed will use all her power to defend her children in time of danger. I recently saw a clip of a Chinese woman that was buried under a collapsed building just to save her two weeks old baby- she actually did save the boys life.

The desire to defend our work also acts as a motivating factor that forces us to act against our most often week and reluctant spirit. To be honest with you, if I am sure that my job or business will not be taken by others, I will readily go back to bed each day that I wake up and feel like not going to work.

MOTIVATION MOTIVES

To a great extent, factors that motivate people into becoming extraordinary explain the real motive behind motivation. In as much as it is hard to explain

From the above discussions, it is clear that the principles of motivation still remain and cannot be broken. If you play by the rules of the game, you will have no choice but to be motivated beyond your imagination.