{"id":12810,"date":"2023-07-07T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2023-07-07T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:11:03","slug":"motivation-at-the-center-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/motivation\/motivation-at-the-center-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Motivation at the Center of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Motivation is life. Life is motivation. More than a philosophical nicety, this is relevant to everyone, everywhere, always.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Please see beyond the philosophy and into the crucial pragmatic importance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From the start of life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life starts where some structure (such as the precursor of a proto-bacterium) tries to consolidate itself. To do so, this structure needs to surmount the entropy (mounting chaos) that is present everywhere around it, as everywhere in the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, at the start, this striving for consolidation is not to be called \u2018motivation.\u2019 Still, from the start, it is already the principle where all life\u2019s motivation originates. Meanwhile, over a very long time, life evolves naturally toward more complex structures. \u2018Motivation\u2019 evolves accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, from the start, motivation is at the center of life \u2015 where it remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Motivation is needed continually.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the way through, life evolves in an environment of entropy. Therefore, it needs to continually defend itself against dissolution. This points in two directions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Life ensures an \u2018ocean of energy\u2019 (deep motivation) is available if only one can reach that.<\/li><li>This reaching becomes more difficult in a state of <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=2271\">inner dissociation<\/a>. Given the above-mentioned continual need, this brings the continual danger of energy depletion. In a work situation, we speak of <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=11927\">burnout<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes the road to burnout long and winding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Motivation is central to all human aspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we are living organisms, this should be no surprise in light of the above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positively and negatively, it has to be taken literally \u2015 obviously, with some thought. For instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Climate change results from many people\u2019s motivations to consume mindlessly \u2015 or be content with little.<\/li><li>A criminal never commits a crime without being motivated to do so \u2015 or not being motivated to walk a straight line.<\/li><li>A student can focus attention for a prolonged time if he is motivated to attain the results in spite of possibly more immediate gratification.<\/li><li>Behind psychosomatic chronic pain lies a deep motivation for something to come to the mental surface and get realized \u2015 in vain.<\/li><li>The patriotism of a soldier in a war situation is his desire to defend what symbolically appears to him as his kin.<\/li><li>At a broader level, cultures can also be seen as structures that strive for consolidation. This is relevant to \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=12814\">culture as a living being<\/a>.\u2019<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What \u2018at the center\u2019 means in AURELIS coaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=11933\">AURELIS coaching<\/a> always lies the search for <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=3679\">deep motivation<\/a>. Why did the coachee evolve in this or that direction? How can he change\/grow into a more congruent direction with his deeper self, more at the center of himself as a person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finding the coachee\u2019s true goals<\/em> \u2013 which I describe as the main active ingredient of AURELIS coaching \u2013 looks like a diagnostical endeavor. More so, however, an excellent \u2018diagnosis\u2019 already equals the central part of the solution. This shows that excellent coaching is also very much \u2018alive\u2019 \u2015 much more than an instrumental endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a dance around the motivational center of the coachee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=34\">Coaching is everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"12810\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_no_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\"  data-display-label=\"0\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\" \"  data-bookmarked-label=\" \"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"12810\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\"  style=\"display:none;\" > <\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"12810\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-12810\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\"><\/a><h3 class=\"cbxwpbookmark-title cbxwpbookmark-title-login\">Please login to bookmark<\/h3>\n\t\t<form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation is life. 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