Second Post

     The most interesting source I may have so far is an online journal article by Gelona Joe titled "Does thinking about motivation boost motivation levels?" I found it interesting since it discusses research based on one of my main concerns; does consciously motivating yourself actual increase your motivational levels, and if so by how much. The study does make a claim that usually thinking about your motivation levels boost your motivation, which I thought was going to be the case (now I have suppose for that hypothesis). I did not expect that the state of thinking would be 20% higher than for those did not think of their motivation levels however; I thought it would be lower (I had no real base for that thought though). I planning on using this information to perhaps aid in a solution for low motivation levels that doesn't take physical action, just mental action. As I said in my last blog, the thought of carrying out motivation on a physical can be challenging enough for those with severe lack of motivation, thus an aid based on simply implying changing cognitive thought may provide an easier way to tackle the challenge.

     The only change to my current inquiry "at what level of mental well-being does motivation begin to dwindle and can it be restored?" may just be rephrasing it to be shorter and more precise in the focus. I plan on continue research on the relationship between motivation and well-being, but I have to be careful to not sway too much from health as I ponder into psychological research. As I find more material my topic can potentially be narrowed to "restoring low motivation levels to gain a better well-being", in which will focus on motivation revival and leave out the "at what level of mental-well being" from my initial inquiry.
   
     I am not currently facing any major challenges in my research. A few challenges that appeared thus far may be material being too similar causing problems will obtaining various perspectives. I still have yet to find the three perspectives of my inquiry that I am looking for, psychological, behavior (I have some research), and biological (I don't have any research). One potentially useful method I do is that everytime I find a source that may be useful to my topic, I will make note of it to find it again even if I think I will not use the source. I do this because there are times my research may be lacking in some field of (examples, evidence, perhaps another paragraph needs to be added) and having these extra sources can be a big help in such cases.