Discussion of The Role of Self Motivation in Life

“I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes,“ said Socrates.

In the words of Socrates, there is no greater power and philosophy than oneself. When you want success as badly as you want air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success. In every person there is a sun and we must just let them shine. Falling down is not a failure - failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are. It is better to be at odds with the whole world than being one to be at odds with oneself.

It is that our generation is the mass of men that lead lives of quiet desperation. We tend to have this feeling of desperation when we are losing our ways in life. The frustration that despite so many attempts and desire to do something in life - time passes but nothing changes.

So how do we change this? The first step is to acknowledge that a change in our way of life is needed.

Carl Jung said, “We cannot change anything unless we accept it“.

We accept our problems and how we are afflicted by it. Then we must get a better knowledge of our limits and possibilities. This acts as a stimulus to develop our personality. We must not dull our feelings or flee from positive possibilities and get entangled in mindless pleasures and it only exacerbates the problem. So we accept that there is a brighter possibility to chances and life as whole. We must question ourselves as to what change is needed to bring back the vibrancy to life.

So the path to self-motivation life is self-actualization - an acceptance of a person’s own intrinsic nature. If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. But then our years of living, our bad habits solidify.

Everything that we talk of here - directs us to oneself. We are our own propeller to a better and a more fulfilling destiny. We must conceive an aim to our existence. Self Motivation helps us to be more successful not because we make and aim to get rewarded for the goal we achieve but the transformation we get into for achieving the initial goal that it forces us to undergo.

Self-motivation is a phase of self-realization, self-actualization, self-control, self-discipline and self-transformation. Depression causing suicides these days is nothing less than and epidemic in our society today. And the worst part to it is that we do not understand a person who is into depression and it goes undetected finally a victim ending one’s own life or killing many. This is where self-motivation could play a big role in preventing loss of life and correcting our society.

The vital concept and component of self-motivation is individualism and self-empowerment. The fundamentals of self-confidence and personality has its roots in self-motivation. It teaches one to not only idolize yourself rather than looking for one or importing inspiration. It creates a new story of inspiration that one can look up to and be proud of.