Encouragement

Another characteristic of maturity connected to the subject of motivation is the ability to plan and choose and act with an awareness of the long term implications and consequences of those plans, choices and actions. Maturation in that sense is the process by which we find ourselves seeing and living in and by a bigger picture of life, including past and future, than we used to see and live.  We not only consult the here and now, we also consult the "there and then." We begin to learn the art of balancing the screaming needs and demands of the here and now with the prudent considerations and reminders of the there and then.