P&G Check-in: 25 January - 31 January 2021
Hello lovely P&G Community !
The topic for today Check-in is Motivations.
Dealing with Motivation is a key skill to control our lives. It helps focusing our time and energy on activities that express our values, thus promoting our harmony and flourishing. For a deeper understanding of Motivation, read HERE the excellent article by @lumieremilkyway.
Motivation has many dimensions. Here we focus on two: things we do vs. things independent from us, and short-term versus long-term.
An example: motivation to exercise or diet.
In the longer-term dimension, we set the goal to get fit, because of health, wellbeing, or enhanced capabilities we want.
Then, the desire to establish diet and exercise habits is based on truths independent of ourselves: their physical effects on our body. We wish to walk the path that leads to our goal.
In the short or immediate term, we can motivate ourselves with some actions aimed at promoting the behaviors necessary to achieve our goal (see "triggers" in the referenced article).
Finally, external things influence our current motivation, such as a sunny, cool, and quiet day, or the absence of pressure and conflict in other areas of our lives. Or viceversa.
Questions:
- How do you feel today ?
- What motivates your ? What do you do to boost your motivation ?
I look forward to your comments, and wish you all the best !
Marcelo.
Please join us HERE in our “Positive Sources of Motivation” event, open for participation throughout January !
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- How do you feel today ?
I feel great, just a little stressed about college.
- What motivates your ? What do you do to boost your motivation ?
A world that needs changing and also my crush as well.
@Asherwolfice
Thank you for checking in !
I'm glad you feel great !
It's OK to have stress in college, it's part of the standard package, not a problem...
Your sources of motivation, altruism and love, are of the highest spiritual order.
You must be a very mature and good person.
I feel honored that you participate in this check-in.
Thank you, and keep in touch !
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat hello! hope youre doing well :)
How do you feel today ?
today i feel okay. im a bit worried about my brother having COVID (he doesnt live with us) and online school is not working well at all. But i´ll go outside today for the first time in 6 days because i simply couldnt get myself up somehow!
- What motivates your ? What do you do to boost your motivation ?
knowing that i can actually achieve anything i want if i put the work into it and knowing that i can get a step closer to the best version of myself every day.
@dynamicHemlock1736
I am glad that you feel well today. I wish your brother recovers sonn and well. Most young people don't hurt much from the disease.
COVID is a big concern we have always in the background. It scares us, and we don't want to expose ourselves.
I' am glad that you have the energy to go out after a week indoors.
It's great that you have confidence in yourself that you can achieve anything if you put enough effort into it.
You surely are getting better and better every day. Sometimes we are impatient and don't perceive these little improvements. It's very good that you are conscious of them and that motivates you in your healing path.
Thank you for participating in this activity !
I wish you the best !
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
- I feel like a "new self" today 
- I often listen to motivational podcasts to boost my motivation. I have this spark inside me that I want to be one of the most looked up to female role models. So, I read about those female role models who brought "change" and a new perspective to the life of females, to motivate myself.
@MishiSushi
Dear Mishi:
I don't know about the old one, but your New Self is a wonderful one !
Podcasts are great, there are so many, so varied, you can always find some that match exactly your interests.
You aim high ! Good !
Who are your role models ?
I can recall Cleopatra, Jeanne D'Arc, Marie Curie, Queen Victoria, Amelia Earhart, Mother Theresa...
BTW, a gift for you, a book I have on "The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time": https://bit.ly/100_Most_Influential_Women_in_History by Britannica.
Hope you like it !
See you at the top !
All the best,
Marcelo.