The process of motivating human being should start at a very early stage. Most people think that most 21st century kids can be motivated enough in order to handle a difficult task. If you are one of these people, you should follow the following steps. Remember, at early stage or young age, all of us make the transition from being unable, to being able to walk, as well as to being able to talk. And many of us, from age 0 to 3, make the transition from being unable, to being able to perform various challenging tasks, despite their challenging and difficult nature.
The motivation needed for making those transitions begins with an innate and natural born desire to explore, curiosity, understand, and even control ourselves and our surroundings. And it goes on by the recognition that we are making a little progress with each time we invest more time and effort. These all are further magnified by the consistent encouragement, from our parents, siblings, friends and relatives. All these people actually enjoy these miraculous but natural transitions. If the ability to successfully tackle a difficult task in public were not developed into the genes, most of us would never learn to walk, talk, read, write, and so on.
Let's take the example of the ability of kids to make the transition from being unable, to being able to do pull ups, which naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life. The kids or people who can do pull ups are never obese. Today, due to the growing epidemic in childhood obesity, physical educators do not expect that students to be able to do pull ups, where the failure rate and the accompanying humiliation rate is so high.
If we see it, it is not the failure of our kids, instead it is the failure of our educational system, that comprises school boards, educational administrators and researchers. Physical educators should realize that if they make the kids to do this from young age, much before super sizing takes root. Here, the same motivating forces should be applied that prompt us of us to learn to walk, talk, and to grow in an infinite number of ways. In the process of learning to do pull ups, kids are likely to immunize themselves against obesity for life, because kids who can physically pull their own weight are never obese.