INICIATIVA : AFECTO Y AUTOMOTIVACIÓN || Una interesante reflexión 🤔

La motivación es una palabra muy usada en el ámbito escolar y también en el ámbito laboral. Sobre esta palabra precisamente se tratará mi publicación del día de hoy. Como reflexión personal impulsada por la <a href= >Iniciativa: Afecto y Automotivación que dirige la hiver @damarysvibra de la comunidad Holos&lotus.

I must confess that when I read the article (very interesting, by the way), the word "self-motivation" made a lot of noise to me, because in my university years, I had to read a lot about the difference between "motivation" and "stimulus" to be able to develop my degree work.

At that time, according to the authors I read, they established a fundamental difference between both words; determining that "stimulus" is external and "motivation" is internal. This statement has remained fixed in my mind ever since. That is why when I read "self-motivation, I noticed a certain redundancy.

However, when something makes me noise, I quickly resort to my friend Google, and I was able to learn that this term is widely used by experts in emotional intelligence, so I was a little calmer and I was able to update my knowledge.

Having clarified this, I would like to delve a little deeper into the difference between "stimulus" and "motivation". Stimulus refers to the different external actions that certain people, or even the environment, can exert on us in order to provoke motivation to arise, so we can say that people can encourage us, encourage us, stimulate us, but they do not have the power to motivate us, since motivation is an internal, intimate process of the individual.

In this same line, reflecting on the relationship between affection and motivation raised by @damarysvibra in her article, I understand it as something that arises from the inside out, that is, I can feel motivated to perform some action due to the affection I feel for a particular person.
The perfect example is the love of a mother for her children, but there are also all the manifestations of love.

This feeling of love for another person can help me to keep me in "action" which is the word that best defines motivation. Motivation is dynamic, a motivated person is constantly moving towards the goal.

Motivation is also closely related to the ultimate purpose or goal. That is why we often hear questions such as: What is your motive for doing this, i.e., What do you want to achieve?

I find it very graphic to exemplify "stimulus" and "motivation" with the mechanical system of a car engine. Every car to start its movement needs an initial spark that is produced by the starter, this initial spark would be the stimulus; however that spark by itself is not enough to keep the engine running, it also needs fuel. This fuel would be in this case the motivation since it is what keeps us moving.
We all know that a car without fuel can't keep moving even if the starter throws all the necessary sparks.

To all this reflection on motivation, I would like to add a term that for me is fundamental and that has worked very well in my personal experience. The term in question is "will", although motivation is internal and has a lot to do with feelings and emotions; will is the rational part, it is the discipline that helps us to continue with our life and our goals even if we are not motivated at some point.

I return to the example of the mother, since it is the one I can identify with the best.
How many times when we have small children we feel exhausted and without strength for so many tasks and responsibilities, how many times have we woke up without the motivation to get out of bed, but reason tells us that there are beings that depend on us to survive, then we take courage and get up to feed, bathe and educate these little beings called children. It is in those moments when we act out of will rather than motivation.
That is why for me the word will is my pillar and my support point.

Gracias a esta iniciativa, hoy aprendí que el afecto nos mueve, bien sea de manera externa a través de los estímulos de las personas que nos aman; o de manera interna a través del amor que sentimos por nuestros seres queridos.Y por último que la voluntad es lo que impide que caigamos cuando no existe ni estímulo, ni afecto, ni motivación.
Y dicho de una manera más profunda: La voluntad de Dios nos sostiene.

Fue un verdadero placer para mi compartir con ustedes este momento de reflexión en el que escribo mi punto de vista, respetando siempre el modo de pensar de los demás y con la mejor intención de aprender y crecer juntos.
Gracias por leer, saludos y bendiciones.

Thanks to this initiative, today I learned that affection moves us, either externally through the stimuli of the people who love us, or internally through the love we feel for our loved ones, and finally that the will is what prevents us from falling when there is no stimulus, no affection, no motivation. And to put it more profoundly: God's will sustains us.

It was a real pleasure for me to share with you this moment of reflection in which I write my point of view, always respecting the way of thinking of others and with the best intention to learn and grow together.
Thank you for reading, greetings and blessings.

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