What really motivates us..

I would say anything that gives me pleasure to be honest.

If something gives me any joy or enjoyment or happiness then im motivated by it.

Unfortunately im not motivated by any particular high ideals or a sense of civic duty .

Being a fairly selfish ( and honest ) person i would have to confess that a good meal,a G and T, a Ferrari F40 or a Linssen motor yacht would do it for me.

NOT because of the physical nature of the things in themselves but rather the feelings,the joy,contentment that they would, and do give me.

Now that doesnt mean i cant be sharer or a giver or a helper to others.But my main motivation is my own enjoyment and life experience.I hope others benefit in some way to,but i would be a hypocrit if i said it was motivated by other peoples wants and needs.

Graham

This is a really valid question as I am ''motivated'' to chime in, while money is widely known as a prime motivator in this system/society, it is simply a means to an end, and working with conscious creation, it is no doubt one of the most sought after things we want to manifest into our physical reality, just one of them mind you, others are being in a loving relationship/soul mate, having a rewarding career/owning a business, and achieving perfect health/fitness, as the list goes on. The real question we would ask ourselves is what all of these things that we really and truly want, represent to us? happiness, joy, relief, and expansion, the pursuit of happiness, and that's the answer, we're here to play this game of life, to create desires and more desires through contrast. We may THINK that certain things will make us happy [material wealth/possessions] and they can, but only temporarily until the ''high'' wears off and we move on to something bigger and better [expansion] and as long as there is contrast, and there will be, it never gets completed, we'll never get this done. The soul is always seeking expansion through us, and when we see something we want in our physical, outer reality, we almost immediately go after it because we'll believe that when we get that thing we truly want, we'll feel better and be much happier, and that's the prime motivator, the joy/happiness, not the physical/material thing, it's our perceptions at play here, in this physical experience, hence, we'll go after these physical things. If you look at all of this from the perspective of what higher self wants, [the bigger you] which resides in non-judgment and pure joy, the prime motivator would be continuous alignment, and it should be, because alignment brings you everything you want anyway, and eventually some of us will get bored with the accumulation of material things, and reach for a much bigger motivator, joy and expansion, through continuous alignment.

Shhhh, capitalism is about to come into the truth...SUPRISE!

So what is the surprising truth about what motivates us?

Everything I do is always a feeling I really want.

Whatever I say I want, the thing I wish for is just an imagined pathway into the feelings I really want and the feeling I always want ultimately is happiness.

And there's more, it goes deeper.

It's not just happiness that's the hidden motivation behind everything on my list of wants and desires.

I have a daily routine and I have large chunks of time to do other things, opportunities to play, explore, express myself creatively. Now here's the fascinating thing few people realize ... I love watching certain tv game shows but why do I love it, what does it give me?

It's all about "inner experiences"

In the tv games people say things, talk to each other but that's not what I care about ... what I really care about are the feelings I experience while the actions take place ... what I see on tv is just a trigger an "on switch" for the feelings I really want to experience inside myself.

It's all about feelings.

Take away the feelings and all the fun and pleasure disappears. So the hidden motivation for getting everything on my list of what I want to change, fix, improve, create or experience in my life ... is ultimately to feel happiness.

And the hidden motivation for all the things I do to play, explore and express myself creatively is to ... experience a wide variety of feelings.

Text largely gleaned from the following video produced by Robert Scheinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325_L1l4tOc