It’s Been a Week – or a Couple of Weeks
Every week, I SWEAR that I am going to blog every day, and every week it never happens. Sometimes life gets crazy, and sometimes, despite posting a positive quote every day, I just don't have anything to say. I love to write, and I love to create, but I seem to lack the motivation. It's something I need to work on, and I don't think it's something I'm alone in. Being motivated, and finding motivation can be a challenge. It has to come from within. Sure you can have a task you have to get completed for work or school, and you get it done, but is that motivation internal (is it coming from you) or is it fear of what your boss might say or what your report card will look like? It's something I've been giving a lot of thought, lately. How do you tell if motivation is internal or external, and if one is better or worse than the other. Here's what I've come up with....when you're doing it because you want to or when you take pride in the final results, the motivation is internal. Let me explain....think about that thesis paper that you had to…