On a few days off last week I read Salley Vickers' The Other Side of You - referred to earlier in this blog. It made me want to go and look at Caravaggios again and to spend more time in Rome - and it isn't too heavy for a holiday read, so what more can you ask?!
Next on the list is Jane Leach's book Walking the Story, with pictures and theological reflections on her walking the Santiago da Compostela. The motivation is that I'm preparing to walk a small part of the path later in the year. The other part of my preparation should include working on fitness...but there are always good reasons for not doing things, aren't there? I've been thinking about motivation this week in connection with Mark's account of the call of the disciples. "Follow me" - and despite all the personal and economic and common sense reasons for not going, they just do. Yet Mark doesn't explain motivation, either here or in so many other places. Intriguing - I wonder where they thought they were going?
Ann
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Ann thanks so much for your first post which I'm reading from Rome - though no time to go to see the caravaggio - shame really.
Motivation is an interesting word - abdout what makes us do things and also what gives us energy to do things
I'm glad you read the book by Sally Vickers. Perhaps we should have our next WIM meeting in Rome?
If you're looking for walk inspiration check out Bob's website for his end to end diary (www.bobjanet.demon.co.uk/lejog). Although he did it in 2003 it's still up there on the web and we recently took delivery of a wonderful piece of fabric art inspired by it and made by our friend Louise Mabbs (see my Novice Blogger blog for details)
Motivation - there is something about habit as a motivation - as regards exercise, I have not been jogging in the mornings for the last week and a half for obvious reasons - and getting out after the snow and ice has gone is going to be that much more difficult. The same can be true of going to church - it's much easier to keep going than to start or recommence. I think that the reasons for this are complex and we are sometimes inclined to look down on habit as motivation - feeling that it is not as 'good' a reason for doing something as a fresh inspiration - and yet we try to cultivate good habits. Habit allows us to dispense with unnecessary decisions and to concentrate our energies on more important or out of the ordinary ones. Habit also gets us where we want to be when we want to be even when our motivation in terms of immediate desire and instant reward is low.
Just as well I am in the habit of getting up when the alarm goes or I might still be in bed...
Jacky
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