Conation

Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated...

You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]