Psychological driving forces

More profoundly you need to be able to manage the psychological driving forces you have become aware of. You want to reach a state where you are free to act without undue Interference from unconstructive forces, and are able to harness the constructive ones. 

One way to manage your psychology is by consciously controlling and directing the various inner forces that you sense are driving you. The other way is to remove the driving force - let go of it. 

The three most important motivational factors identified in the quantitative results were novelty, escape/relax, and relationship. These factors showed no significant difference in their importance between the two levels of travel experience. Similarly, the interview results also suggested that these three factors, along with self-development, are the main psychological forces driving travel. A preliminary statement on the structure of travel motivation is possible here. There is a strong likelihood that people may have certain dominant and constant travel motivations that act as a common backbone to travel regardless of their travel experience level. In particular,... 

Think about it. When people ask us why we did something, we are apt to say, "1 wanted to do it," or "I was told to do it," or "1 needed to do it." These explanations sound as if the cause of our behavior comes before we act. This perspective is supported by numerous "pop psychology" self-help books and audiotapes that say people motivate themselves with positive self-affirmations or optimistic thinking and enthusiastic expectations. In other words, behavior is caused by some external request, order, or signal or by an internal force, drive, desire, or need. 

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