The Different Types of Motivation and Their Relevance in Management

Be Enthusiastic

What is enthusiasm?

A simple meaning for the word enthusiasm is to have a keen interest. It means you demonstrate an eagerness and a joy that fills you with energy. If you approach any task without enthusiasm, the task will be laborious. You will find yourself watching the clock waiting for the day to be over. You are just putting in time, bored, unhappy, and truly not enjoying life. But what a difference it would make when you are energized.

When you have keen interest you are total, you become vast. In simple language if your entire room where a lot of things are scattered then you will be hitting something or other, but if the room is tidy and well arranged then you will be able to walk or sit comfortably. Similarly when you are keen your thoughts are following you, you can guide your thoughts and you get guidance from your inner sources. You will not get angry or upset. As you have connected with the universe. Something is moving, flowing and growing. The aliveness, that is your connection with the universe which is eternal.

If you dissect the seed you will not find the hidden tree in it. But if you allow it to grow it will become a tree. In the same way if you can consciously watch this kind of incident when you are enthusiastic, you will find nothing can disturb your body, mind and emotion, and slowly you will experience that something is there which cannot be destroyed. But it grows. You need conscious watching. Allow it.

Take Charge

Right now Krishna says that not only Pandava but society has also suffered from the dictatorship of Duryodhana. Now you must take charge of your life and the lives of citizens of Hastinapur.

Take the responsibility into your own hands, it is your life. So do whatsoever you like to do, act, never do anything that you don’t like to do. If you have to suffer for it, suffer, but don’t do it; do only that which is demanded of the present moment. If you have to suffer for it, suffer for it. One has to pay the price for everything; nothing is free in life. Then that is the price.

If you fulfill your duty as kṣatriya, even if the whole world condemns it, good! let them condemn. You accept that consequence because that’s your assignment of the universe so, it is worth it.

This act of your responsibility will make the whole society courageous and insightful that living life under dictatorship of some one is not worth it. Take charge and fight for it.

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