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Motivation and Priorities…

Spending as much time in psychology as I have, I guess I know a thing or two about Human motivation and people's priorities. A very simple principle I have learned is that *People will do what they want to if motivated*. Prior to today I had called the sprint store to see when the Palm Pre was coming out and what time the store was going to open. So I had it all planned. I would wake up early in the morning (about 7am) before my wife did, I would go to the sprint store and be there at about 7:30am and just walk in when the store opens and get the phone and surprise my wife with the most anticipated phone this year!

I get to the store just as planned and there are already fifteen people waiting in line! Now mind you, I am not in a big city. I live in Kalamazoo, MI with a population of around 78,000. There was even a couple of guys who were camping out there since three o'clock in the morning! I stood in line and even saw a couple of my friends and talked to them which helped the time go by, but I was thinking to myself, "Wow, the thing we would do if persuaded and motivated enough!" I finally moved up in the line to the point where it was time for me to actually buy one. I finally did so for my wife and she is really liking the phone and the features which in turn makes me feel good.

Motivation is driven by a desire. It is driven by a need to fulfill something in oneself or for oneself. The more motivated we are as I saw at the store, the higher a priority our object of desire becomes. It seems like the marketing in our society creates a desire inside of us that takes our motivation off the charts. When we see an extremely attractive woman, then there is this desire that we want something from them, and therefore our desire becomes the driving force in our motivation which in turn becomes our top priority. So from there we do whatever it takes to get whatever we want from the object that we desire, be it a woman, a phone, a car, a house, a position, some praise, etc.

We men get what we want from what we desire then we move on to the next most desirable thing. Its ok (most of the time) to do things like this with phones and cars along with other inanimate objects. However, when people and emotions come into the picture, then that starts to be inconsiderate and deviating severely from the path to completing manhood. So let us make our top priority becoming a complete man and a complete person. We should make our most important priority ourselves. Then in turn we can be of the best benefit to the people who love and depend on us. The great thing about us men is that when we focus on ourselves, we are eternally dynamic creatures. We change all the time. Yes, even the narrowminded, non changing, fixed thinking amongst us all. Even our levels of narrowness and rigidity are changing. So we should invest our motivation and priority into the best product that God put on this planet... Ourselves.

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