MOTIVATION

How concerned is our society about motive? How often do we hear in police shows about a criminal's motive?

We are motivated to do something either because of need or due to passion. Do we first learn motivation by need rather than passion?

Those of us who are parents could do everything for our children even after they become adults. We could consume ourselves to meet their every need until the day we die. How then would our adult children ever become motivated to do something for themselves? Every person must face their own needs to become motivated to help themselves.

We learn motivation from our own need unless stopped from doing so by parents or government. Once we embrace our very own motive to do something, we can begin a search for our passion. On this journey we can eliminate the things we are not passionate about. When we focus on our passion, we become motivated not due to need but because of the strong emotion attached to our passion. A person motivated to do something out of passion cannot be stopped and is contagious.

"I can do everything through [Jesus] who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13