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…we’re blind to at least some of our motivation much of the time.
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Changing, invisible, competing, and conflicting motivations make this element of behavior hard to pin down and control.
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Dreams and aspirations are good things… But investing time and energy to motivate ourselves – or other people – toward an abstraction is the wrong move.
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When we match ourselves with behaviors that we already want to do, not what we think we should do, there is no need to fuss with motivational tricks or techniques later.
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When you start with the easiest, most motivating thing, you can ladder up naturally to bigger behaviors…
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Make the behavior so tiny that you don’t need much motivation.
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By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive. You’ll ensure that you’re always capable of doing the behavior no matter you your motivation fluctuates.
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Completing tasks gives us a boost of confidence, and this increases our motivation to do the entire behavior.
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When you feel successful at something, even if it’s tiny, your confidence grows quickly, and your motivation increases to do the habit again…
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Hope and fear are vectors that push against each other, and the sum of those two vectors is your overall motivation level.
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