The word motivation comes from the root word motive and simply says motive in action. Motiv-ation is often associated with achieving success in anything. Often it's a burst of energy or some excitement like a sugar rush as described by some that lasts for a period of time then disappears, which means something else is required to keep you going else you'll end up going round the same mountain not actually getting past your last point.

Jim Rohn puts it this way “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going", affirming that motivation is thus short lived or perhaps it develops into habit as long as you keep going. Do you see how frustrating this can be, it's like chasing the carrot! Even in these statements.

However, if you look at the root word and what it implies, it seems motivation is much deeper than some drug or sugar rush to pump us up. You see, motivation is birthed when vision and purpose collide in a force to create something that has been burning inside for a while.

Motive is a deep desire, purpose, an internal driver or a must do or die attitude that is decisive, committed at all odds to attain the outcome being pursued. It implies movement, continual relentless and deliberate persistence to get there.

It would thus seem that the lack of it shows there is no depth of motive for this is what produces the fuel to keep moving.

So if your lacking motivation toward a certain goal, check your motive, what is it rooted in? Simply ask, what is driving me, fantasy or something much deeper?

Here's another famous quote by one of the America's great motivational speakers "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily” Zig Ziglar.

Keep the thing that drives you in focus daily.