I once read somewhere: nothing motivates like success. It is often the desire to succeed, to derive joy from attainment of a goal and the benefits from such achievement that drive individuals to persist and persevere, to toil and tolerate. As a race, we are designed to feel motivated by thinking about the end result. You tell someone they are hired for a job paying them one hundred grand a year and they immediately start visualizing saving or spending that money, they start planning, they start imagining themselves in the office, speaking to co-workers and the rest of it. It is natural. Steadily, these thoughts become part of one's expectations. If what they thought varies greatly from what they actually get, they are disappointed. They set a goal for themselves, the next target and they give themselves a time frame. So far so good.a
