How Human Emotions Drive MotivationEmotions can motivate us every day and for different reasons. Depending on the person, the way emotions can spark motivation can vary depending on how much sleep they have or how they perceive the upcoming day's event to spark a feeling. With these differences, this essay will explore why and how humans use emotion to elicit motivation. This essay will also give examples of how emotions relate to a person's life, community, and/or career. Emotions are necessary to generate motivation. Ways Emotions Can Be Applied to Daily Life In the process of managing emotions in daily life, an example of working in a homeless shelter program, one can imagine that many emotions are experienced when relating to customers, colleagues. , management and then his own family. When it comes to a family shelter program, the social services field requires that clients be treated in accordance with the agency's mission statement and do so with compassion and dignity. Therefore, this type of emotion can be classified as emotional labor. Payne (2009) explains how emotional labor is different from emotional labor in that employees display “genuine feelings towards customers, rather than playing a role” (Payne, 2009 cited in Cox & Patrick, 2012, p 350). For example, when our director went on sick leave after suffering serious injuries, there was suspicion that she would not return. This writer's emotion of fear of losing his job as an assistant general manager recognizes degrees versus experience, this writer was motivated to take online college courses. Additionally, it sparked the need to act at a mastery level so that the ability to perform...... middle of paper ...... about a goal, about a task or job will define the importance of the situation. to this individual. Ultimately, we can conclude that motivation is driven by emotions. Works Cited Cox, E. and Patrick, C. (2012). Managing emotions at work: How coaching affects the performance and motivation of retail workers. International Journal of Evidence Based Couching and Mentoring, 10(2), 34-51. Datta, Y. Y. (2010). Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs: an ecological view. Oxford Journal, 9(1), 39-57. Hunter, M. (2012). How motivation really works: towards an emoto-motivation paradigm. Economics, Management and Financial Markets, 7(4), 138-196. Urwiler, RN (2008). The IT Values ​​Hierarchy: Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a metaphor to assess the level of maturity of information technology use within competitive organizations. Information systems management, 25(1), 83-88.