Motivation - will we trip and fall?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

This video is incredibly useful in understanding the psyche of motivation when it comes to any organisation, however, this applies in particular, to Sangh.

At the first SIP Abhyaas Varg, we had a communcations exercise, and the majority of us had great difficulty in trying to convince an outsider what our objective was. This is how the conversation (summarised) went:

"What is you aim in Sangh?"

"to unite and strengthen the world.."

"But that is looking very far into the future. We do not have a time scale for this and so I cannot comprehend this. So what are you going to do before that?"

"Strengthen the Hindu samaj so that we can be heard."

"Even that statement does not have a timescale because we do not know how long this will take. We do not even know if it is possible!"

The point of this conversation, was that these visions cannot tell us what our next steps are in progressing towards them. Our answers are always to strengthen the world or the Hindu samaj, and yet these are so distant that the majority of our swayemsevaks cannot comprehend them. We cannot see a united world because it is so far into the future. And so we must set reasonable, short term goals in line with that end goal because Sangh is an organisation which requires "rudimentary, cognitive thinking" amongst its workers.

We have mastered mastery; we want to become the best in every field but now we must put our skills into use and this is what SIP has done. SIP has given the participants a short term goal with a specific time period (7 weeks) which is in line with the long term goal. This then allows us to set weekly or even daily goals and suddenly we have purpose to our everyday actions and this creates motivation! Motivation that allows us to drive these projects to their end goals and eventually Sangh to its end goal.

However, this must not be mistaken for the removal of our long term goal. Our long term goal ensures that we continue to move in the right direction; a bit like a compass. With that compass, I will know where my destination lies, but if I do not look at where I am going in the short-term, I could trip and fall.