Motivation initiates, directs, and sustains goal-directed behavior and is necessary to mobilize merit by inspiring sustained effort. Application of focused practice and skills advances achievement through deliberate performance and continuous improvement. Commitment to long-term development creates competence by fostering consistent practice, mastery, and reliability in performance. Persistent effort enhances excellence by refining abilities toward objectively recognized standards and higher levels of skill. The combined, applied actions of motivation, application, commitment, and effort form an integrated principle (MACE) that produces measurable merit, advances achievement, builds competence, and cultivates excellence.
According to Coyle (2009), motivation is the ignition and the internal drive that inspires individuals with the desire and the passion of wanting to work hard, not only for the purpose of developing and enhancing their skills and knowledge, but ultimately obtaining the outcome that is objectively recognized as merit-based precision, knowledge and expertise (Albert-Lyons et al., 2024; Coyle, 2009; Di Domenico & Ryan, 2017).
In research undertaken by Dweck (2006), she discovered that the students who were personally motivated to work hard and persistently applied themselves to their task (whatever it was) achieved higher grade levels. This evidence clearly illustrates that self-directed and self-motivated actions are essential for mobilizing and achieving the recognized standards that adhere to what is immutably known as merit (Blackwell et al., 2007; Dweck, 2006; Sisk et al., 2018).
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