3 Examples of Self-Motivation

Self-motivation is easy to understand when you consider some examples:

1. A man who goes to work every day just to pay the bills, keep his family off his back, and please his boss is not self-motivated, while a man who needs no external forces to make the trek into work every day and finds fulfillment in what he does is self-motivated.
2. The student who only completes her homework when her parents remind her, nag her, or ground her for failure to complete is not self-motivated, but the student who completes her homework with no prodding because she wants to learn and succeed in school is self-motivated.
3. The woman who only goes to the gym when her friends drag her there or because her doctor is adamant that she needs to exercise to get healthy again is not self-motivated, but the woman who sets an early alarm and schedules time to get to the gym whether anyone encourages her or not is self-motivated.

 As you can see, self-motivation is all about where your drive comes from; if your motivation comes from within and pushes you to achieve for your own personal reasons, it can be considered self-motivation.
If you are only motivated to achieve standards set by someone else and not for your own internal satisfaction, you are probably not self-motivated.
It’s possible to be self-motivated in some areas of life and not in others. For example, if the man from the first example is not internally motivated to go to work but is sure to make time for his marathon training, he is not self-motivated when it comes to work but may be self-motivated regarding his training.






SOURCE: positivepsychologyprogram.com