Motivation If we use something other than our self to motivate our self, or allow anything outside our self to motivate us then we are not masters of our own life. If we are the master of our thoughts and feelings then we are the primary motivators of our self and everything in our life. Most of us have learned to be motivated by external factors while a few have discovered that the deepest motivators are internal. We can consciously use our values, our thoughts, memories of yesterday to motivate us. However the deepest motivator for any human being is a clear sense of meaning and purpose. This can only arise when we know who we are, where we are and what we have at the deepest level. Spiritual intelligence is based on a true sense of self as soul, not body. Only in this state of self-awareness are we able to understand the true meaning of things/events/circumstances and only then are we able to see our purpose and motivate ourselves.