Motivation happens when confidence + incentive outweighs effort.
Check out my wacky chart below. I’m sure I could have made a much better example, but after testing various graphs and charts, I think this is the best way to visualize the concept-as cheesy as it may be.
Knowing this simple rule is key to motivating yourself. What happens in your thinking when you become motivated? Think about this next time. You have a goal in mind and you’re focusing on all of the positive things that will come to you when you achieve that goal-but only if you truly believe it can be accomplished.
So motivation is needed to even begin to take action, and if you start to take action but don’t follow through to the finish, the cycle breaks, nothing gets done, time is wasted, and you can’t have results.