Motivation

The best motivation doesn’t come from ‘me’ interests or even from the arts (unless there’s a strong element of the ‘greater-good’ there), it’s from a steadiness of intent to construct. That requires motivation.
It starts with intent. And this intent, if outward looking, has to NOT exclude certain responsibilities (ouch! That word) but to IN-clude repair. There’s still a lot or deep damage to be fixed. The greatest art can up-lift and the wildest ‘me’ ambitions can inspire (look at Richard Branson) but today the old lusts are dying out. New ones coming along … ‘me’-ing is fading … we’re finding a need for ‘greater’ motivation. Meaning supercedes the chase for money, fame or beauty. Significance is today’s central focus.
Put it this way, if there’s a road accident and the doctor’s passing by and stops to look, she’s not smelling the flowers, she’s staunching blood. So it is with us today. We aren’t much good for anything if we just stare in shock. We should be checking the bag. “What will do the trick?”, “What have I got to do?”, “What’s needed here?” … and rummaging through your doctor’s bag, at the bottom you find your motivation – just what you need to achieve something significant. If we do choose to help “stopping the bleeding” if we go for ‘healing’ as one of our prime motivations, the doctor in us may stop to smell the rose before moving on, to see what needs doing. The rose and the blood are our motivation (raison d’etre) and the blood does seem significant, not something any of us can inore.
So life is only to do with staunching bleeding but finding significance and meaning in our ‘greater-good’ activities. By motivating ourselves in the ‘healing crafts’ (addressing the-need-for-repair) there’s meaning. Meaning passes through chaos to reach motivation which brings us to the ultimate privilege of being able to contribute, etc … towards the next stage of ‘unravelling’ for the human race.