Motivation

Motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel more fulfilled and improve our overall quality of life.

Understanding and developing your self-motivation can help you to take control of many other aspects of your life.

Motivation is one of the three areas of personal skills that are integral to the concept of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman, the author of several seminal books on Emotional Intelligence, identified four elements that make up motivation:

• Personal drive to achieve, the desire to improve or to meet certain standards;

• Commitment to personal or organisational goals;

• Initiative, which he defined as ‘readiness to act on opportunities’; and

• Optimism, the ability to keep going and pursue goals in the face of setbacks. This is also known as resilience.

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