Every time you get something done, you're shifting from some situation A to another situation B, and the deeds you did, in the very same order you did them, constitute the path you walked over in order to produce or "reach" the new situation.
Now, there's a lot of things that happen automatically. For instance, time runs, and it runs automatically. You are not requested from nobody to do anything in order to make time run, time running is a constant, and for a constant, its effect is absolute. But lots of things become automatic just because they are linked to time. The growth of the human body, the wear of clothes, furniture and other good by the sort, etc. And also society creates gods that are artificially linked to time, the perfect example being the accrued portion of debt. Therefore, there are lots of processes that behave automatically, they grow in presence, and or, effect, without us raising the tip of our little finger. These processes might lie in one of three classes: those which give us advantage, those which are neutral, and those which might create annoyances of even present a threat to us.
The processes of the beneficial and the neutral kind do not generate motivation on us, or at least not in a direct way. Processes which are harmful do create a source of motivation in those who care about keeping things in a comfortable way: staying healthy, keeping their savings, protecting their house from danger, etc. Danger is a powerful motivator. But, is it the only one thing that will move us to action?
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