Who Motivates a Child to Crawl or Stand ?

Who Motivates a Child to Crawl or Stand ?

Today , we have a whole industry around the area of motivation and inspiration ! Yet , as a child I was born motivated to move , crawl and than to stand and walk ! I even ran ! Who was there driving me to do all these most essential stuff of my development and growing ! 

The drive was always within me !

Falling , slipping or hurting were all part of growing . It may have pained here and there , but , it was soon forgotten and we were busy again moving forward ! Failure , giving up or such negatives were just never part of our life !

I still can remember running all over the hills around my home . I just enjoyed that wild , joyful running for no reason whatsoever ! It was such fun and being alive !

I tell you , we are all wired for success ! We are all self -motivating beings ! We  are just driven to whatever gets our fancy . 

Once , we get a clear goal ,or an idea or some fancy , we can just keep moving towards it at all cost .

The core system to be successful or goal oriented is within us !

Once , we know what we want to do or need to do , than we just keep going with a passion that is hard to understand with reason . On hindsight , we may give all sorts of reasons for our achievements.

Crawling to walking was , perhaps a basic survival or inert  instinct . To walk or run away from danger was needed to survive. 

However, to run a marathon is a different game altogether . What will motivate me to run a marathon?  To prove what ? Why ?

To achieve some self-esteem , to prove my physical fitness , to prove my will power .

To satisfy my recognition hunger ? Whatever the need , it is not a survival need ! It is some social or other need . Perhaps the glory of winning . The joy and the satisfaction of being . Whatever the reason , we are now moving from basic survival needs to other social needs . 

We motivate ourselves for many reasons as we grow up in society.

Motivation can be internal or external oriented . We do things or be somebody for others . We need their approval for whatever reasons .

Then , there are people who do things for an inner reason . Their get an inner satisfaction that has very little to do with others. 

My point is that we as a species is goal oriented . In this complex society , we can sometimes get lost or confused with so many conflicting beliefs, ideas , opinions , views and many such issues . 

As a species , we are just made to move ahead . 

I feel motivation is within our core or DNA ! 

We get side tracked with other hurdles or obstacles that take us away from our goals .

As a species , our very motivated nature as taken us in all directions . We have explored almost all of our planet . We have gone within the very elements to discover their secrets . Climbed mountains , sailed all the oceans , gone to the poles , searched the source of all rivers and now we are heading into space within and without !

We are a motivated species .

Enough for today . Till we meet again .

Amar.