Applications of Critical Thinking to Business Analysis Motivation

Question: What is Motivation? Describe Motivation with an appropriate incident? Answer: Motivation is the process that maintains, guides and initiates the goal oriented behavior of an individual. It is the process that makes an individual to act. It involves cognitive, social, biological and emotional forces that activate the behavior of an individual. Here is my motivational story that has helped me to change my life and behavior(Martens, 2006). Six years ago when I was a kid I had no motivation in myself. My mother use to keep telling me to get up early, get ready for the school, study , do this and that etc. In those days I was a happy go lucky girl, use to always flow with the life. I never bothered about what is happening in and around me. I use to laugh and smile in every situation. However, my life suddenly changed when I moved to United States with my family. We are Immigrants from the Philippines, no money at that time, use to live with some of our relatives and my parents were striving hard to get a job and pay bills. This situation changed me. This made to emphasizes and motivated me to get a good job and support my family, save some money for future and also pay bills. From this situation I understood that motivation is nothing but some factors that direct, activate and help to sustain goal- oriented behavior and the wants and needs of the behavior are called the motives. Here, the sudden change in my life has directed me to transform myself into a self-responsible individual and the urge to earn money to support my family is the motive. This motivation has come from inside after realizing the situation. Thus it can be termed as internal motivation which makes me feel happy when I was able to do it (Cullum, 2008). Presently everything is going well and I am planning to complete my degree from Devry University and aiming to get my drea m job soon. REFERENCES Cullum, J. (2008). Internal Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice, Implicit Stereotype Reduction, and the Process of Egalitarian Goal Automization: A Mediational Model. MI: ProQues. Martens, R. (2006). What About Motivation?. Psyccritiques, 51(52). doi:10.1037/a0005828