Importance of self motivation for greater success

“God helps those who help themselves”
—-Poor Richard’s Almanack

The above quoted line is the best advice one could give to the other. The amount of motivation and discipline that one inculcates in life helps them in proportional and even exponential growth.In this life with so many friends and family and all the other well-wishers getting too much involved in our works and making it difficult for us to differentiate between our friends and enemies,It becomes imperative to understand the importance of ourselves in our life.
A person depends upon their family, society, friends, God or some other powers in times of distress and need. One of the most underrated and important need that they fulfill is the need for our Motivation. They provide us with the much needed impetus in our life. However, we tend to overlook the most important person that we have in our life, Ourselves.
In today’s world when there’s huge competition for jobs and secure future, it is very important to have a strong motivation and work ethics. Due to high disparity between jobs and the applicants, failure is a de facto occurrence. Sometimes, the support system that is supposed to be taking care of our mental health gets blinded by their expectations towards us. The constant failures make them apprehensive towards our approach and capabilities which in turn leads to them getting irritated and and agitated over trivial matters and comparing us with someone who has achieved what we dreamt of. The inferiority complex that follows is very hard to bear and get through. Tackling this situation is only possible when the motivation and the hunger to reach success transcends all boundaries. Only when we know what we’re fighting for will we know the worth of our fights and realise that the challenges are all puffs of dust in comparison to the moutain of rock that we have wanted to climb.
To prevent ourselves from breaking and crumbling down, the best help that we can get is to motivate ourselves. Nobody knows ourselves better than us and nobody knows the real motivation that we need to get out of a bad phase of under confidence or Failure. Only we have that clarity of the path that we need to get on to get success and the twist and turns that we are supposed to fight on the way. Also the reason to attain success is the strongest motivation that one can have. It is that mindset of making one’s dream come true that gives birth to winners and we must understand and remember from where we have started our journey and where we are supposed to reach. Only then any sort of motivation can help us. All the aforementioned things can only be fully understood by ourselves because we chose the way and we have our own definition and recipe for success.

However only motivation won’t lead us anywhere. For success to be achieved, we need to combine motivation with discipline. The Hindu book Bhagwat Geeta also speaks on the need for self motivation that can be attend through self discipline. Self-discipline, according to the Bhagavadgita, means discipline in body and mind. With this recipe of motivation and discipline that we can generate within ourselves, will help us overcome any challenge that we face and scale new heights.
The most Important thing that we must understand in our life is that everything that comes externally will not forever be the same. The person that will praise us today will criticize us tomorrow. Sometimes the criticisms will be uncalled-for and unwanted, which might be detrimental for us. To avoid this unwanted stress on our mind, the best solution is to motivate ourselves because our view towards ourselves will never change. Nobody knows us better than ourselves and that is the power that we must use to be successful. Also Motivation can only take us a Little towards our goal. For our journey to be successful we need to be disciplined. It is a prerequisite for success.

Name :Bhupal Sapkota
2nd Semester
Dept. Of Political Science
BODOLAND UNIVERSITY