Bautista, Dan Joshua A.

SOC 100: Understanding The Self

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering B147 | ROSARIO C. RAGO, Ed.D

“Para saan ka bumabangon?”

The Concept of Motivation to form a Positive Idea of the Self

Motivation is the idea of ourselves for us to continue in achieving what we desires

or goals in life. It can be our families, friends, material, or immaterial entity that may
contribute to bring us the eagerness or encouragement to our journey. It pushes us to
reach our full potential as an individual towards to improvement of excellence. Through
motivation, we are becoming more confident in doing activities and we learned values
from these experiences. When we are surrounded by people with an intention to motivate
us, it creates an amiable impact to us and it is a sign that with positive environment, it
encourage the person to move forward for betterment.

Motivation comes from a Latin word “movere” meaning “to move” which is shaped
in our inner state and its purpose is to encourage us to reach our dreams in life. There
were three possible components that can describe motivation as a whole and those are
intensity, direction, and persistence. Intensity meaning the difficulty of the tasks and how
a person is trying to accomplish it. Direction refers to the path of an individual to complete
the task with a systematic method. Persistence is something with connection to the
determination of a person or it refers to “keep on going” even the work is hard. These
describe that motivation as a process of how passionate you are as a person.

As its nature, motivation can cause various behavior and it might be positive,
neutral, or negative effects in self. However, it is still in our decision on how we will take
those motivation in the particular reason of not all motivation can lead us to good deeds.
Motivating desires can be peaceful or chaotic. It may depends on our environment; our
interaction and connection to our models may influence us in choosing our desires. Learn
to use critical thinking in accepting motivation. It is important as it serve as the fuel for us
to drive our actions towards to the destination of our dreams.

As a person, motivation leads me to an avenue of hope. In every obstacles we

encounter, motivation reminds me that I should keep going because there are people
believe in me in achieving my dreams. In my academic commitment, I always put in mind
my family; their hard work and sufferings just to provide me a quality education. There is
a value that I learned as a student and that is to keep moving chasing my dreams for the
Bautista, Dan Joshua A. SOC 100: Understanding The Self
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering B147 | ROSARIO C. RAGO, Ed.D

people have faith in me and for myself. This idea may considered as a positive self
because it depicts the determination and not losing hope. My program which is Civil
Engineering honestly it is hard for me as a person who does in to mathematics but with
those inspiration, it give me glimpse of light that says “never give up.” Although, failure
sometimes weakens ourselves, motivation stands us from that darkness and energize us
to start again and keep on trying until success.

Filipinos are the one of the best model that appreciate motivation. In numerous
tragedy we experience due to different catastrophe, we never forget to smile and be
resilient to endure the distraction brought us by natural and manmade disasters. We
always look for brighter side of the situation because we are motivated by the hope that
there is another day for cure and dreams for our family and people. Remember, think
about who or what keep you going for you to not be lost on the path you are striving.